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SpartaNNNN

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Nov 12, 2020
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Sourced via: https://tech4gamers.com/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora/

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is being developed by Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft studio, in collaboration with Lightstorm Entertainment and Disney. It was first revealed in February 2017 and later in E3 2021, we got our very first look at the game.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will feature a first-person perspective and you will play as Na'vi from the Avatar movie. Not much has been revealed since then.

However, Hugo Castel – working as Assistant Product Manager at Ubisoft – who has previously worked on games like Assassin's Creed and The Settlers, etc. on his LinkedIn job description mentioned that he also participated in the launch plan of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (AAAA)in collaboration with Disney & Lightstorm.

Avatar-Frontiers-of-Pandora-Ubisoft-AAAA.png

The first look trailer did reveal to us that the game will have breathtaking environments and most probably a huge world. Now the 'AAAA' status of the game proves that it will be a high-budget game with quite a big scope.

Recently, Skull and Bones also from Ubisoft and Callisto Protocol also joined the list of 'AAAA' category of games. The game will also be exclusive to the next-gen consoles along with the PC platform as previously revealed by Ubisoft:


BUILT USING THE LATEST ITERATION OF THE SNOWDROP ENGINE, AND DEVELOPED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE NEW GENERATION OF CONSOLES AND PC,

AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA BRINGS TO LIFE THE ALLURING WORLD OF PANDORA WITH ALL OF ITS BEAUTY AND DANGER IN AN IMMERSIVE, OPEN-WORLD EXPERIENCE.


Despite not revealing anything else about the game Ubisoft's earnings reports include something a bit surprising: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is still set to be released before the end of the publisher's fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2023. We are looking forward to the 'AAAA' experience the game will provide. So stay tuned for any further updates.

Do you think labeling games as 'AAAA' is something new or is it just a gimmick? Let us know in the comments.
 

sdornan

Member
Oct 27, 2017
686
Nothing about Skull and Bones looks AAAA, so I'm guessing it means nothing here either.
 
Jun 20, 2021
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Marty Di Bergi: "So AAAA is bigger than AAA?"

Nigel Tufnel: "Well it's one A bigger."

Marty Di Bergi: "Couldn't you have just made AAA bigger?"

Nigel Tufnel: "......this goes up to AAAA"
 

Tankshell

Member
Nov 1, 2017
2,117
Let's be honest, this will be Farcry with an Avatar skin. So if you consider Farcry games to be AAAA… then I guess so.
 

ILikeFeet

DF Deet Master
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
61,987
they do seem to have a lot invested into it. it's also gonna be a ray tracing exclusive game, so they're targeting the higher end demo. expect a $70 game + a fuckload of microtransactions
 

Master Chuuster

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Dec 14, 2017
2,649
It's companies trying to justify the fact that they're increasing prices for their games. AAAA is not a thing and it never will be. Just bullshit corpo speak.
 

klauskpm

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Oct 26, 2017
3,246
Brazil
Everytime someone says their game is AAAA I think about the Limited Marketing Acronym Oversight technique. LMAO for short.
 

Plinkerton

Member
Nov 4, 2017
6,060
It's just the latest marketing buzzword. It doesn't mean anything. Hell, AAA has pretty much lost all meaning these days.
 

Kalor

Resettlement Advisor
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Oct 25, 2017
19,629
It's not worth reading into whatever AAAA is. It's just marketing speak. Especially if something like Skull and Bones is being labelled as one.
 

kimbo99

Member
Feb 21, 2021
4,799
this genre is saturated man. I am excited for this, but probably going to take a break for the genre for some time due to burnout. Everything is an open world game with a movie like experience, which I for one, am tired of.
 

ultraluna

Member
Jun 3, 2020
1,893
Ubisoft can't even finish an AAA anymore without shiting their pants, imagine adding another vowel into the mix
 

Strings

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Oct 27, 2017
31,413
Nothing about Skull and Bones looks AAAA, so I'm guessing it means nothing here either.
It's not worth reading into whatever AAAA is. It's just marketing speak. Especially if something like Skull and Bones is being labelled as one.
Despite what it looks like, it's one of the more expensive games ever made. Budget was over $120m more than a year ago:
Nearly eight years after it was first conceived, Skull & Bones has blown through its initial budgets. According to three sources, the project has already cost Ubisoft more than $120 million, with that number continuing to balloon as hundreds of developers from other Ubisoft studios continue pitching in to try to ship the game without any more delays.
kotaku.com

First It Was An Assassin's Creed Expansion, Now It's Ubisoft's 8 Year Nightmare

Inside Ubisoft Singapore’s struggle to ship Skull & Bones
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The Messy, Stalled Reckoning At An Assassin's Creed Co-Developer

Ubisoft Singapore devs report sexual harassment, toxic managers, and bad pay
 

Thera

Banned
Feb 28, 2019
12,876
France
Ubisoft is doing everything to be seen as the studio doing big stuff. Probably used as an excuse to the long list of recent failure.

Skull and Bones is AAAA ? Maybe that the scream of the trees when you punched them to loot.
 

Plinkerton

Member
Nov 4, 2017
6,060
Despite what it looks like, it's one of the more expensive games ever made. Budget was over $120m more than a year ago:

kotaku.com

First It Was An Assassin's Creed Expansion, Now It's Ubisoft's 8 Year Nightmare

Inside Ubisoft Singapore’s struggle to ship Skull & Bones
kotaku.com

The Messy, Stalled Reckoning At An Assassin's Creed Co-Developer

Ubisoft Singapore devs report sexual harassment, toxic managers, and bad pay

Presumably, that has more to do with the length of time its been in development, than anything to do with the quality or production values of the game itself.
 

Pasha

Banned
Jan 27, 2018
3,018
Has there ever been a use of "AAAA" that wasn't just grabbed from scanning someone's LinkedIn profile?

Nice.
Nope.

But be prepared for "Ubisoft LITERALLY advertised this game as AAAA" posts in couple of months.

People don't seem to understand that anyone can put anything in their profile / job description. This is not some official press release that was vetted and triple checked by legal and HR departments.
 

Taleboules

Community Manager at Light Brick Studio
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Jun 11, 2021
98
Sourced via: https://tech4gamers.com/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora/

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is being developed by Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft studio, in collaboration with Lightstorm Entertainment and Disney. It was first revealed in February 2017 and later in E3 2021, we got our very first look at the game.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will feature a first-person perspective and you will play as Na'vi from the Avatar movie. Not much has been revealed since then.

However, Hugo Castel – working as Assistant Product Manager at Ubisoft – who has previously worked on games like Assassin's Creed and The Settlers, etc. on his LinkedIn job description mentioned that he also participated in the launch plan of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (AAAA)in collaboration with Disney & Lightstorm.

Avatar-Frontiers-of-Pandora-Ubisoft-AAAA.png

The first look trailer did reveal to us that the game will have breathtaking environments and most probably a huge world. Now the 'AAAA' status of the game proves that it will be a high-budget game with quite a big scope.

Recently, Skull and Bones also from Ubisoft and Callisto Protocol also joined the list of 'AAAA' category of games. The game will also be exclusive to the next-gen consoles along with the PC platform as previously revealed by Ubisoft:



Despite not revealing anything else about the game Ubisoft's earnings reports include something a bit surprising: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is still set to be released before the end of the publisher's fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2023. We are looking forward to the 'AAAA' experience the game will provide. So stay tuned for any further updates.

Do you think labeling games as 'AAAA' is something new or is it just a gimmick? Let us know in the comments.
Marketing BS. Nothing more, nothing less.
 

Odinsmana

Member
Mar 13, 2019
2,242
Despite what it looks like, it's one of the more expensive games ever made. Budget was over $120m more than a year ago:

kotaku.com

First It Was An Assassin's Creed Expansion, Now It's Ubisoft's 8 Year Nightmare

Inside Ubisoft Singapore’s struggle to ship Skull & Bones
kotaku.com

The Messy, Stalled Reckoning At An Assassin's Creed Co-Developer

Ubisoft Singapore devs report sexual harassment, toxic managers, and bad pay
I assume that has more to do with the game being in development for almost a decade. I assume that a lot of Ubisofts games would reach that budget if they where in development hell for as long as skull and bones.
 

Embiid

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Feb 20, 2021
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It's going to be amazing and a technical showcase. Massive is such a great studio. Only concern I have is them rushing it out in time for the movie. Hopefully Ubi gives Massive as much time as they need.
 

Kouriozan

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Oct 25, 2017
21,100
The more As, the more aggressive the monetization will be, because you'd expect those games to cost more than regular AAA.
 
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SpartaNNNN

SpartaNNNN

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Nov 12, 2020
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it's a AAA Avatar game
The last A means Avatar, I get it now, I am dumb.
The more As, the more aggressive the monetization will be, because you'd expect those games to cost more than regular AAA.
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Why develop a AAAA game when you can develop a...AAA game?

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Because they might be able to develop AAAA
can't be, its everywhere
 

Piggsy

Banned
Oct 28, 2017
640
What other games would you say classifies as "AAAA"? Because I can only think of RDR2.
 
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SpartaNNNN

SpartaNNNN

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Nov 12, 2020
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What other games would you say classifies as "AAAA"? Because I can only think of RDR2.
There is an interesting read on this: https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/26/...-game-whats-the-so-called-aaaa-studio-making/

wccftech.com

The Callisto Protocol is “AAAA” and Still Coming Late 2022 Says Krafton, New Images Shared

Krafton seems confident they can deliver "AAAA" horror game The Callisto Protocol this year. Check out some new images of the game's hero.