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> year on year we have to build bigger games, better and more complex games and we have diminishing amounts of budget (both in time and money) to do so Why is

• dijit 7y ago
  The cost of making games outpaces the revenues generated by games, especially if you're not EA, Rockstar or Activision. That is why there are monetisation options and special editions and, disgustingly: loot boxes. Notably EA (which, gamers hate) is known inside the gaming industry as being quite competent and not as constrained on the time or financial budget, so they can throw more resources at things. But the ongoing cost of a server instance is still eternal and will eat your profits away in the future, so they focus on being p2p. Rockstar has budget too, but they also don't have online games in their DNA yet, their development teams seem to still think of single player games. (based on a few conversations with their devs).
• pjc50 7y ago
  There are a lot more of them, so each individual game has a smaller slice of the pie. Unless it becomes a massive hit like Fortnite. It's going to be like startups where most lose money.