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"I think that might be a misread": Thief designer on why making a triple-A immersive sim doesn't really work

"I think that might be a misread": Thief designer on why making a triple-A immersive sim doesn't really work

Broadly speaking, it’s fine for something to exist as a niche. Whatever form of media a thing might be, to fulfil a niche is to meet the expectations of at least a handful of people with a particular taste that many others don’t, and I think that’s a delightful thing to do. In video games, immersive sims might not be the most niche genre in the world, but they’ve historically not done gangbusters sales wise, meaning that triple-A takes don’t…

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