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Azzanation said:
DonFerrari said:

New stuff can be added through DLC instead of MTX, so there is nothing MTX really add except of money rolling through pubs pocket.

Sure companies can eat the cost. But if you look for the sources that were already given in this thread, PS revenue and profit have dropped on the past year or two, so they aren't making more money they are making less, so now is it justified?

DLC and MTX are practically the same thing. You pay money and receive content. 

Sony are still making billions upon billions, it's as simple as what Jim Sterling always says about the AAA industry. "They don't just want to make money, they want to make all the money in the world" and listening to Corp PR to justify the price hikes is a bad move.

SvennoJ said:

You're defending MTs with a subscription based MMORPG ??? Charge $15 a month and then still charge more for a 'pet' ?
Playing WoW from 2005 would have cost you $2,710 dollars by now, initial game plus 6 month subscription plan since 2005.

Keep on believing you're getting nothing extra. Either you get less, or you pay more. No matter how much you would like companies to just eat up inflation, they won't. Either budgets get adjusted down, or revenue needs to be raised back to where it was somehow.

As I already showed before, Sony isn't making more money than ever, revenue declined. Inflation adjusted revenue is shrinking even more.

MS is up, but also short of inflation atm

Revenues up 6% to $3.74bn in Xbox's best non-holiday quarter to date
Content and services, including Xbox Game Pass, grew 4% to £3.02 billion, but fell short of expectations

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/revenues-up-6-percent-to-usd3-74bn-in-xboxs-best-non-holiday-quarter-to-date

Definitely not enough to cover a 70 billion dollar acquisition!

WoW being a subscription-based game is a separate issue altogether.

The point here is that not all MTs are bad. Example: Plenty of game have seasonal MTs, such as Halloween or Xmas items, stuff that wouldn't have been created at launch. We also have charity MTs where all profits go to a charity etc.

Just because a game has MTs does not justify a game that has zero MTs to raise its prices by $10. What game have you played this gen that justifies the $10 increase compared to any game you have played in the past?

These companies aren't going bankrupt and not profiting, they are still profiting, just not as much as last gen... yet. That extra $10 on games is nothing more than you filling greedy suit pockets. Same can be said for Sony increasing Hardware prices. They want you to pay off Sony's investment of Bungie quicker even though they can clearly afford it. This is how the Rich continue to get Richer and the Poor just accept whatever excuses they make.

Sorry, but saying single pay DLC is nowhere similar to MTX that is repetitive by nature.

No one denied Sony is making billion in profits, but you claimed profits is rising, which was proved wrong but you are ignoring it.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."