Your comment makes no sense.
Yes, they made money from sales of the game. This does not explain why they continue to publish free updates for the last 10 years.
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TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 13 hours agoRemember that HG made £40 million in 2022 from good people like you, of course, they are going to keep at it.
WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Remember that at that point the game was allready 8 years old had had several large updates. Not counting few spikes from the updates first four years the game had under 2000 player/month in steam. Financially looking the pragmatic choice would have been to stop the development, but they did not.
There has been several games from big publishers that were abandoned shortly after release, even if it still was possible to fix the game. Battleborn, Anthem, Concord. And even more games that are still in theory playable, but are just full if bugs or not fun to play.
But so far i can think only three games that had bad start, but devs kept working on it and eventually managed to make fun games. No mans sky, Fallout 76 and Cyperpunk 2077
Ava@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
FFXIV probably deserves a spot on the list, the initial launch was so bad they just remade the game.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yes, I have already said this is commendable…in the gaming industry, but not in other industries in terms of project delivery, hence the building analogy in my post.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Why would you force other industry term on the gaming industry? Thats just silly. It like saying apple is a bad fruit because it is a lousy boat.
Gaming is pretty unique platform in a way where the product is measured by unquantifiable metric called fun, but you want to compare it in terms of other products.
Im the end they kept working on a bad product where others would have stopped and ended making it good.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Ain’t that the absurdity? It is a silly analogy, and they are asymmetrical; if the same action applies, would it have a different reaction in the other place? Would Hello Games have the reputation as they have now?
“Why would you force other industry terms on the gaming industry?” Judging from the reply here…well, you tell me…
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
He didn’t say he bought it. He was explaining the very obvious answer to your very obvious question. Why get all weirdly accusatory and righteous?
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Why so sensitive? What’s the accusation? All I pointed out was that HG made a lot of money from people over the years; it makes a lot of sense that they did not abandon the project.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You (possibly falsely) accused a commenter of supporting HG while saying it’s a stupid thing you do. You were a dick. I pointed it out.
And that’s the whole story my friend.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You can support HG, but that doesn’t mean that others have no right to think that it is not a smart thing to do. Spare me your ad hominem tactic, please.