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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 literal

• ethanbond 3y 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 3y 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.
    • throwaway5959 3y ago
      And yet we have games like Assassins Creed Odyssey/Valhalla and Horizon Forbidden West that are loved and don’t require any extra cost after purchase. Games are the cheapest entertainment out there outside of borrowing books from the library.
      • KptMarchewa 3y ago
        Are you really talking about asscreed as a game with no microtransactions?