What the hell is going on with the 8th gen?

[Sharpryno]

Mystro-Sama said:

Sharpryno said:
Games cost a lot more to create than they used to. Other ways of obtaining profit are needed. F2P with microtransactions in Dota2 (LoL is for people who suck at video games) are unbelievable with how much revenue it brings in and how little it costs to make the cosmetic-only item.

You do realise the gaming industry and potential consumers has also grown over the years? That is no excuse. We have games with $100m+ budgets break even in mere days. Thats just a cop out publishers try to use to implement these greedyass practises.

Did the programmers and project managers receive 75k-200k a year a decado ago? No. 

As for this game, I have no idea. Never played a FF game.  Played plenty of JRPGs, Grandia is one of my favorite franchises, but oddly never FF.  

Why they are doing it, I have no idea.  Maybe to get more money out of it, maybe to get the game out sooner and not wait an extra 6months to a year. Dunno.