Cake-san wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2019 4:24 am
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A Software Engineer's salary at Rockstar Games can range from $71,263-$98,698 in 2014.
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And an approximate 1,000-person team developed Grand Theft Auto V.
$71,263 x 1,000 = $71,263,000 a year, and this isn't counting the actors, musicians, janitors, security guards, and so on.
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When you want AAA games, you need to pay the people that make them. They have kids to feed too.
Then you don't buy the game and yet want to buy texture swaps. So then this happens.
"The company said that 'recurrent consumer spending' — which is its name for microtransactions and downloadable content purchases — made up 62 percent of its $388 million in revenue through the first quarter of its fiscal 2019."
This is for a game that came out in 2013. This is why microtransactions exist, because you buy them and not the game.