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• lemjukes@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just look at Battlefront 2, arguably one of the best star wars games ever made and its reputation was irrevocably tanked because the publishers pushed the lootbox model on the game.

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  • Hellahunter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not only did they push for it, but they also made the game extremely predatory by requiring players to grind for an excessively long time 40 hours for just one character. It’s nasty work.

    Fucking luke cost 60k credits gtfo with that.

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    • Dogiedog64@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      "A sense of Pride™️ and Accomplishment™️."

      • The singularly most downvoted reddit comment in history, at over -680 THOUSAND downvotes.

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  • lazyViking@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In here to argue

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    • lemjukes@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Let’s see. Mr. Debakey’s free, but he’s a bit conciliatory. Try Mr. Barnard, Room Twelve.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Developers often make the same decisions about monetization as publishers do when they have the same incentives.

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  • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Except developers don't have the same incentives. Publishers are incentivized by profits. Developers are usually incentivized by wanting the world to see their artistic output.

    Of course some of them will do it for money because some people are just like that, but overall the industry would probably be in better hands if the developers got the long end of the stick and the publishers got the short end. Right now in the AAA market it's the opposite and it shows.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Developers are also incentivized by profit when they’re entitled to keep it rather than a publisher, and this is the case regardless of being AAA or not.

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      • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Can you give me 3 examples where the developer is monetizing the game like EA or Ubisoft would?

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s even an argument that SKG is a good financial motive for studios. Consumer electronics/entertainment spending is down, and it’s not hard to connect the idea that people are less enthused about video games when they aren’t sure they get to keep them. Which are you more likely to buy: Snake oil from a merchant on a turbo-driven truck ready to leave town? Or multiple panel-certified medicine from an extremely tightly-regulated industry.

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