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[–] 86 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

It’s a canon event for any game company that achieves moderate success gets acquired by investors

Very much not exclusive to the game industry

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    True :3

    I just said game to stay on topic tbh

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Makes sense, wasn’t untrue and I wasn't criticizing, just wanted to make sure everyone remembers that the problem goes up the chain due to capitalism.

    Various companies/games were mentioned in the comments, but I think a good example is Hello Games. Clearly fumbled their game launch and were over ambitious with No Man’s Sky.

    But it’s gotten an incredible amount of things that were promised, and many things that weren’t, all as free updates. Sure, they’re still making money, that’s the point, but instead of Micro-transactions, overpriced DLC, fucking over the devs, shutting things down, they just keep rolling. I’m sure they’ve gotten offers of acquisition that were probably very lucrative, but they didn’t take them, and have continued their slow roll of making gamers happy.

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