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lurknot | 2 years ago

Love to see it, but it reminds me of the videogame industry with their trashy practices and they're still loaded. Pre-orders, microtransactions, selling literally the same game 10 times over with minor changes...

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ethanbond|2 years ago

Could it be that your perception of the evils of the industry are not shared broadly?

People in general like playing games and don’t mind paying for them. See: Video game industry is loaded.

JamesLeonis|2 years ago

The whole market is tilted towards "Whale" purchasers who outspend everybody else by a longshot. That's why its all gamepasses, lootboxes, and micro-transactions.

"Whales" present the same problem to video game companies as a single large customer has on a small business or a lucrative vertical in large businesses (see Google, Facebook). That outsized revenue stream dictates where the rest of the product goes because nothing brings in close to the same revenue.