istanbullu to Gaming@beehaw.org · 3 months agoHow China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in Historythedroidguy.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: gaming
arrow-up130arrow-down1external-linkHow China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in Historythedroidguy.comistanbullu to Gaming@beehaw.org · 3 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: gaming
minus-squareistanbulluOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoWukong’s 70M$ is fairly small compared to the other AAA games.
minus-squareDdCno1@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months agoJust like Chinese wages are pretty small compared to Western wages. Nonexistent in many cases.
minus-squaresunbather@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agosource? plus “western wages” is a pretty broad range and doesnt really mean anything without context
minus-squareDdCno1@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2023/01/30/the-east-west-wage-gap-not-nearly-as-compelling-as-it-once-was/ As for the nonexistent salary, that’s a reference to the millions of slaves: https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/china/
minus-squareShinkanTrainlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months agoI wonder how much of that is marketing. That eats up most of a AAA game budget and I don’t think it was heavily advertised outside of China (where it had a big marketing campaign)
Wukong’s 70M$ is fairly small compared to the other AAA games.
Just like Chinese wages are pretty small compared to Western wages. Nonexistent in many cases.
source? plus “western wages” is a pretty broad range and doesnt really mean anything without context
https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2023/01/30/the-east-west-wage-gap-not-nearly-as-compelling-as-it-once-was/
As for the nonexistent salary, that’s a reference to the millions of slaves:
https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/china/
I wonder how much of that is marketing. That eats up most of a AAA game budget and I don’t think it was heavily advertised outside of China (where it had a big marketing campaign)