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'You won’t find our games on a subscription service' says the founder of Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian, after Ubisoft forecasts a future of players 'not owning' games (www.pcgamer.com)

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"Subscription models will always end up being cost/benefit analysis exercises intended to maximise profit."

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Subscription models will always end up being cost/benefit analysis exercises intended to maximise profit.

Anything with a price tag is that, tho, unless you're either content to not make a profit or you don't mind gouging people.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Not in the rare cases when the company is owned by someone who cares about the product, who resists investor pressures. To some extent Larian, Valve and Nintendo manage it so far.

Decline through endless profit chasing only seems inevitable because profiteering investors are so thoroughly present in nearly every company.

[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I'm not sure nintendo is a good example, see super mario 3d all stars.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

That's why "to some extent". Nintendo does some unsavory moves, but I'm not sure the point of it is profiteering, especially when it comes to taking things out of sale.

But you can't deny that they put out games of consistent quality, and not overly monetized.

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