Leave them alone🤬🤬🤬

[u/Yolo065]

[u/Few-Requirements]

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.

[u/shadowkijik → u/Few-Requirements]

Yknow how you get games to stop generating losses? Stop making crappy games. This isn’t anywhere near a good supporting reason for making the games more expensive. This is like McDonald’s tripling the price of a Big Mac because the filet o fish isn’t selling well. Stupid.

[u/Few-Requirements → u/shadowkijik]

You are active in subreddits for Lost Ark, Borderlands 3, Supervive, Diablo 4 and Palworld, all of which I think are shit, but you obviously believe are good.

So tell me what constitutes a game being objectively "not crappy"

[u/shadowkijik → u/Few-Requirements]

Sales. If it sells. It works. It’s a “good” game, monetarily. You don’t bleed money when games sell. Lmao. This isn’t subjective. People make lazy crap or crap that’s obviously meant to send a message more than being a good game and it hemorrhages money.

Also active is a MASSIVE stretch. I haven’t participated in most of those subreddits for ages. Throwing Palworld in with that list just makes you look more like the bloke in the meme.

[u/Few-Requirements → u/shadowkijik]

• Hifi Rush won Game of the Year and sold poorly. It has awards for quality, but your metric means it's objectively bad.
• Among Us sold nothing for years until it blew up in popularity and sold millions. So the game was objectively shit and then objectively good with zero changes?
• Final Fantasy 16 sold millions, but didn't meet sales goals, ultimately losing money, while Balatro sold 1 million, far exceeding sales goals
• A game always launches with 0 sales, so it is objectively bad until people buy it then it's objectively good.

There are so many ways that your statement is fucking stupid, and despite all the ways I can drive it home, it seems like it will never sink in for you.

[u/shadowkijik → u/Few-Requirements]

You’d be making a compelling argument if the point was establishing some hard and fast objective metric for what a good game is or not. However back to the original point, it is ludicrous to justify raising prices to pay for creating games that fail. Regardless of how much you want to argue about a small portion of the overall issue at hand. I’d love to hear your explanation for how it remotely justifies raising prices in general because other stuff sells poorly. I suppose the price of the Honda crv should also skyrocket because accord hybrids struggle to sell and that would be okay too right?

You’re right, I’m not going to acknowledge your diving as deep as you can into this small point about a semantics based argument because I see that it distracts from the lack of logic inherent with your original justification that I challenged. Additionally I see your usage of low brow insults and mockery and call that out as your own awareness of the weakness of your statements.

[u/Few-Requirements → u/shadowkijik]

You replied to me to say "games will stop generating losses if developers make good games"

You're not getting insulted because I'm unsure how inbred that statement objectively is. You're getting insulted because I'm annoyed at losing 5 minutes of my life spoon feeding a troglodyte basic common reasoning. Ultimately, if you were a dog, you'd get put down by your owner for being that fucking brain dead.

[u/shadowkijik → u/Few-Requirements]

Lmao. Not like your time has any value, friend. Thanks for the laugh though.

PS you’re still ignoring the meat of my statement that I’ve brought up as comparison twice now and referenced multiple times. Anyone who isn’t an actual projecting idiot would see what you’re doing here.