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Leave them alone🤬🤬🤬

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u/Findict_52 1d ago

Not so much defense, more like "uhh, yeah, things cost money, inflation exists, welcome to the real world", and I can't disagree honestly. People gotta use an inflation calculator on old games.

This meme does have real "too late, I drew you as the soy cuck and myself as the chad!" energy.

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u/Loud_Interview4681 1d ago edited 1d ago

They no longer have to make and ship cartridges to distribute them. They just let you download said game. The margins are insanely large. Add in they not longer subsidize consoles and release a new one every few years... yea. also the technology isn't improving that much as we have reached a pretty big limit on screen size etc. No more big innovation to make graphics look perfect- it is just art style now and most of the games reuse what works.

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u/Few-Requirements 1d ago edited 1d ago

The margins are insanely large.

Pfft, that's a great joke.

Oh, you're serious.

I really want to see what "margin" you are specifically thinking of.

AAA game dev is one of the highest risk industries in the world. Games generate losses constantly. 2023 and 24 saw about 50'000 layoffs across the industry. With 1500 more in 2025.

One of the biggest game publishers in the world is on the brink of shuttering.

So please, be specific. What margins?

Edit: Go figure, the person I responded to mentioned nothing about "margins" and instead claimed "We have better tools, AI and Unreal Engine so games are easy and cheap to make now". What a fucking moron.

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u/Reapper97 1d ago

Game devs are not the people who actually pocket billions of revenue and profit every year lil bro.

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u/Few-Requirements 1d ago

You understand that game publishers are still part of the game development industry, right? The term is catch-all to the main service.