![]() Super Bunnyhop made a great video that looks into game publisher’s profits and their morally grey avoidance of tax. ![]() The gaming industry is raking in more profits than Hollywood or any other major entertainment sectors. We are talking billions of dollars in profits. Publisher profits have been steadily increasing while their expenditure has actually been going down. The trouble with this argument is that the facts don’t support it. This is supported by the fact that development costs on games has skyrocketed in recent years. People don’t want more expensive games so publishers need other avenues to make up their revenue. Games have stayed at a fairly consistent price for decades so a common point is that with inflation games should cost more money. Games Developers/Publishers need more money. Both of these facts are true but don’t accurately reflect reality.īelow is my evidence on why all players should take a stand against this business practice. The more impassive take the stance that if you don’t want them then nobody is forcing players to buy them. The key argument I most often see in favour of microtransactions is that game developers and publishers are businesses that need to make money. There are arguments for and against them but I am here to try and layout the argument for why they represent a very real threat to the medium that we all love. The audience reaction to this varies widely between utter disgust to complete indifference. The business practice of selling small in-game content to players has become a reluctant norm of the modern gaming industry.
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