AAA studios exist to satisfy shareholders. everything must be "safe."

Because Indie games are usually made with more passion and often times, the developer(s) behind it will be more active with their community. AAA games mostly just produce the same overpriced slop year after year.

Because the majority of AAA games and publishers are absolute soulless trash.

Because AAA releases nothing but trash with awful unoptimized engines that need megarigs to run and even then stutter like 80 year old guy.
Add to that crazy game prices and safe soulless corporate game and story design.

AAA relies on marketing. Indie is more about passion.

AAA is great if you like games dumb as dirt.

Or sorry, sorry wheres my corpo speak "If you love your games streamlined and full of quality of life improvements."

Because AAA are made by complete bozos led by guys in fancy suits who watch if the numbers in their excel sheet goes big while indies games are made by actual passionate and competent people.

because indie devs make good video games and most AAA developers do not make good video games.

Originally posted by RainbowRiot:

Why Are Indie Games Becoming More Popular Than AAA?

shareholders get angry. like that 'collective shout' group. 'oh we dont like violence in your computer game that made this company rich so please censor it'. Then they put on their best surprised and confused face when the shares are now worth nothing.


See also: Grand Theft Auto VI.

Originally posted by RainbowRiot:

Is the indie scene beating AAA at storytelling, innovation, and fun? Do big studios even care about the players anymore?

AAA publishers / studios only care about whales, MTX's & shareholders. That's it.

The indie guy undestand your public, and has more freedom to creat a new idea or history. I love indie games, i started on this life on last month, first undertale and on future i will buy the One shot and others.

I think these games require less time to get into, whereas big titles can demand anywhere from 50 to 200 hours - something that's not always easy to balance with everyday life. That's why mobile games are so popular.

They always were

Originally posted by RainbowRiot:

Is the indie scene beating AAA at storytelling, innovation, and fun? Do big studios even care about the players anymore?

AAAs get scope bloat and try to do too much, including satisfying activists. Indies just want to make a fun game and they tend to have passionate staff that focus on that objective.

Originally posted by RainbowRiot:

Is the indie scene beating AAA at storytelling, innovation, and fun? Do big studios even care about the players anymore?

because indie=creativity

aaa=your average disney movie