Comment on #StopPayingGames

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Acquisitions cost money.

  And that drives up costs, which cuts into profit.

  Call of Duty had a bad release this past year.

  Did the developers get paid for their labor?

  none of those things are a measure of how profitable Blizzard games are

  Revenue - Cost = Profit

  This is Business 101.

  But plenty of businesses operate at a loss, when they can generate surplus cash through investment. You don’t need to generate profit to pay wages. In some cases (the AI companies being a great modern example) you can pay incredibly generous salaries without ever turning a profit.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not forever. The profits need to outweigh the losses, and the rest comes down to averages. That’s how all of this works.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you’re waiting forever to collect your paycheck, you’ve already been rooked.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Are you willfully misunderstanding at this point? Those wages come from averages and projections based on past results of how much money previous games make. If they continually don’t make money, their jobs disappear, because the work they’re doing no longer justifies how much it costs to pay them to do it.

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