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A game released 10 years ago turns 10, yes
I think it's more the fact that games like Witcher 3 and Bloodborne are still discussed so much despite being a decade old now. Just kind of crazy 10 years have passed already.
It's significant because in those 10 short years, a significant portion of the talent left the industry for greener pastures. When you mix genius level IQ people, definitely in the spectrum, with corporate types pushing line go up mentality and career drones using thought police tactics to progress their careers, while having 0 creativity, you get the current brand of AAA games from Western developers, aka, trash. They are more worried with the game's response on xitter than if the game is fun...
You do realize we got Baldurs Gate 3 in the last few years, right?
Baldur's Gate 3 is a AA game from Larian, a Belgian developer which is private and not a public company traded in the stock market.
BG3 is not an AA game, lol. The A's simply mean budget, and BG3 had a budget of over $100 million.
Yes, it's totally normal for AAA (and Ubi AAAA) games to enter early access before full release to finance development post ACT I... Yes, BG3 is totally a AAA game and Larian a AAA studio... FML! One can't look exclusively at budget, especially when most of it went into development and not marketing.
That's literally what AAA means...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry)
And to think Larian is some small company is also silly. It has over 400 employees and 7 offices. It's privately owned, yes, but it hasn't been an AA studio since the success of Divinity Original Sin 2 and most definitely not since the massive success of BG3.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larian_Studios