MrGuvernment
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The video was hilarious until they made the Origin-Steam comparison. Steam is still the goliath in that marketplace.
This is all BIG game companies.. EA is far from the only one. Valve, Activision, Bethesda could all be added to it.
incoming Valve defense force.. lets see who bites first.
It basically just describes any publisher. That's what they do, they give money to developers to make a game with the goal of taking a portion of the profits to make money themselves. EA, or any other publisher, aren't in the business of giving away money for nothing.
It does suck a bit, but at the same time I can understand them wanting to push developers a bit, you don't want a studio pulling a DNF and having a shitty game in development for 12 years that you're funding.The problem is when the publisher/label/studio gets involved (read: "buys") with the artistic process. Hence the junk that flows out.
Yeah I think it's a mix of publishers over investing in games and games in general costing too much to make. Look at Bulletstorm, it "flopped", but not because it didn't sell well, still had half a million to a million sales in the first month which is a decent amount of revenue, but they were projecting 4.5 million and stated that the game didn't make them any money, so clearly the development and advertising costs outstripped the ok-but-not-phenomenal sales.It's the idea that they have to have record profits, all the time, every time. Give a small studio $1m and they get a return of $5m? Not enough, let's remove some content and make it day 1 DLC!