| Dgc1808 said: I like this idea. SONY gets money, and I don't have to pay. |
I don't understand comments like this. It's not a magical money tree that Sony can just pluck cash from that doesn't trickle down. Every penny a developer or publisher spends comes from us. Now, since prices aren't going to be going up, this means:
Lets say a developer has a budget of $15 million. To advertise their game, they planned to release a nice demo, a trailer, and some free skins and other goodies on PSN. As development is reaching the 80% mark, Sony adds this unexpected cost, forcing the developer/publisher to budget in an extra couple hundred k, just incase these goodies receive a lot of downloads. If the dev is small, and they can't just increase the budge ton their game, you may find they had to leave out a little polish, or a couple extra multiplayer options, or an extra couple maps, etc, to make up the cost.
In short, the money comes from somewhere, and if it's not from you, it comes out of the finished product.
