vlad321 said:
No it means that console players will be glad if a company even offered them a bucket of crap. How is it that blizard and Valve make so much money? Magic? They just make games that don't suck, something VERY few people are able to do in modern times it seems. |
They're also PC focused developers. There are plenty of console-focussed developers making great games and reaping great profits. The difference is a lot of quality PC developers lose their shirts from pirates, and then shift focus to consoles. You're whole argument is that console gamers will apparently buy anything. But you fail to see it's not because PC gamers have greater discretion, it's because they're far less likely to pay for a product they use. In our previous thread, we saw that Assassin's Creed had nearly 20x the pirated copied floating out there (ONLY counting bittorrent, not including any other means of pirating) than actual sales. You claimed it was because the game was terrible. But that means PC gamers are still willing to play terrible games, just not pay for them.
Sure companies like blizzard or valve that make the BEST of the BEST can succeed financially. But they make super-high quality games that sell for the same price as lousy games. They succeed due to their reputation for quality that ends in sales volume. Guess how often that business model works? Most developers can't decide to spend 6 years making a perfect game like Blizzard. Or let a AAA franchise sit for 10 years between sequels. Meanwhile, rememger Origin? Remember the massive time/budget they put into the Wing Commander games? Great games, good sales... but they stopped making back their budgets, and they're now dead. That is a story that has happened many times over... and piracy is at least partially (if not entirely) to blame. Yes, blizzard will make games and print money, and yet at the same time they will lose money from pirates. Meanwhile, developers who aren't blizzard and Valve will go bankrupt, because their good game is being enjoyed by 3 or 4x the people who actually pay for it.
