Starfield budget was 400 millions (not sure about marketing) vs Skyrim a total of 85 millions with marketing.

Over 400% budget increase and not even 25% of the quality. The industry is run by a bunch of idiots.

Someone here explained to me that you "need" multiple layers of environmental design, gameplay, writing, QA etc to make an AAA game, all paid at minimum $80k a year in a major metro area (probably more realistically). I wonder who decreed that.

Starfield budget was 400 millions (not sure about marketing) vs Skyrim a total of 85 millions with marketing.

Over 400% budget increase and not even 25% of the quality. The industry is run by a bunch of idiots.

Someone here explained to me that you "need" multiple layers of environmental design, gameplay, writing, QA etc to make an AAA game, all paid at minimum $80k a year. I wonder who decreed that.