I call bullshit. If a game has a higher production budget and corporate priority, why shouldn't consumers know that outside of seeing more ads for it on YouTube? At any rate, I'd say that most people here know that games like Elden Ring, Grand Theft Auto V, Cyberpunk 2077, etc. are AAA games.
You don't need to attempt to gatekeep this for "non-insiders" because it's nothing like hearing someone speaking Swahili at the market.
Because obviously you
can't fucking handle it, and need to go on posting pages and pages of memes and bitter "Who they think they fooling?" posts about a guy's personal resume.
Most people who know that big games are "AAA games" don't know have any clue why they know that or what it means. They've just heard that the top-selling games are "AAA", and so that must mean something, right?
You will never see "AAA" on the back of a box, or in an advertisement for a game, or probably even a press release announcing a game. (You see it in studio announcements or new IP commencements, but once the actual product is announced, those terms are rarely mentioned outside of boilerplate.) It's not a term to tell gamers what to buy. It's a term to tell investors what to pay into, or for distributors to put on their priority list, or for advertisers to make room on their docket for ad buys.
I'm not gatekeeping, I'm trying to inform you that it does not matter and is not a real thing being advertised to the public. The public can know a publicly-traded company's product budgets (if that is part of corporate disclosure,) that's fine if that's interesting to understand the business, but as is obviously evidenced by this thread being about quality rather than production/marketing investment, it is clearly not something which translates into understanding the market better. It's just pissing people off here for no good reason. The priority designation of As on an executive's ledger should be as important to you as the celebrity hot list telling bouncers who to escort to the champaign room and who has to wait for a hand-stamp in line at a club.
...Just pretend that As never exist and your life will be better for it. Even for those inside the industry, it's mostly meaningless.
"Because you can't handle it" (in italics). You're a fucking dork. I'll tell you how much I care, I didn't even read your wall of bullshit and I still call bullshit.
Nice! That is an amazing way to prove my point.
