Modern AAA projects are not liked by some industry representatives.
Recently, Larian Studios Publishing Director Michael Douse shared his impressions of Mafia The Old Country. He praised the new game for being "more polished, technically richer, and narratively stronger than any previous Mafia game."
Michael also criticized AAA games and praised indie games. In his opinion, developers in large projects focus on data, which negatively affects creativity:
"Much of the industry has aggressively oriented itself towards data for a long time, with the result that for several generations of specialists, the ability (institutionally and/or intellectually) to be guided by intuition has become a lost art.
[...] Indie games don't have "data"; they have to rely on intuition. Sometimes in the AAA category you can see games that offer something very specific (developers followed their intuition, their heart's calling), but this is still limited by the institutional practice of analyzing everything available based on the data available. "
Data sets are becoming increasingly useless because they cannot predict either breakthrough hits or failures. So, if you can't rely on data and have lost the institutional "intuition" that drives rampant self-expression (defines the game), you're stuck.
They start doing things "safely" (which is dangerous). Therefore: genres disappear until indie developers create breakthrough hits and create "new data".
