Every year, the world gaming industry witnesses the birth and appearance of a series of blockbusters. There are many projects with investments amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. But “big money” is not a guarantee of success, which the recent lesson of Ascendant Studios with the masterpiece called Immortals of Aveum is perhaps the most visible proof.
Despite investing tons of money and going through massive marketing and PR stages, what Immortals of Aveum received in return was extremely little. The quality of the game cannot be denied and it even meets many important criteria of gamers at the present time. As an FPS game, it doesn’t take too long to complete, doesn’t have blood-sucking microtransactions, and doesn’t forcefully follow the open world trend, but its sales This blockbuster is so bad. In other words, almost no one bought it. It’s even more surprising to know that Immortals of Aveum is not too bad when most of the reviews on Steam are positive, especially when compared to the amount that NPH EA has invested in it.
Accordingly, Immortals of Aveum took up to 85 million USD to develop and EA itself also invested another 40 million USD in an effort to turn this game into a new masterpiece. Doing a simple addition calculation, the number reaches 125 million USD (nearly 3,000 billion VND). And the disappointing ending also came soon after, when Ascendant Studios then laid off about 50% of its staff. Perhaps at this point, many people will gradually realize that releasing a single-player FPS-style AAA game is not easy at all. In addition, a debut project with an investment of up to 125 million USD also seems a bit overwhelming for Ascendant Studios.
Positively, at least for now, the studio is still active although there’s no news on a follow-up project and the Immortals of Aveum project appears to be over.
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