| pray4mojo said: So this guy is basically admitting he knowingly sold garbage to us? How is this a good thing? |
Why would it be an issue? It's a business. If you do a cheap crappy game that sells 3 or 4 million copies, it's pure profit. The market must tell them what to do. If cheap stuff sells well, they will do cheap stuff. It's less risky, it was a good business decision.
People more often than not forget that this is a business and companies make decisions according to what the big market wants. If the needs of the market change, they either adapt or die.
A good example is Battlefront. EA could either launch the game months latter with a campaign or launch a more barebones version but do it before The Force Awakens launched. Some team sit down, did some research and calculated that the boost provided by the hype of the film would offset any loss of sales due to lacking single player, while also making the game cheaper. If the game flopped, they wouldn't do it ever again. But it didn't, it worked. So they wil do that again and again, because that's what the market wants. The game even outsold handily the previous entries that did had a campaign.
