Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-94.109.166.200-20190412054717/@comment-29898480-20190416013809

PDQCarrera wrote: Denizer wrote:"...I would call their pricing is the biggest cheat of all :)"

Yeah really, how dare they make enough money to pay their employees and then there's those stockholders too. All probably damned bourgeoisie... There's an argument to be made that FM got their revenue model wrong from the beginning but got locked-in to particular pricing structure and have been living with the negative consequences ever since. So it's not free-loading or whining to point a finger at them.

FM has a game where they give away large amounts of game currency that is otherwise very expensive to buy. This makes the psychology of buying it downright terrible - you feel like a total chump to shell out for it at these prices. Meanwhile, Fortnight rakes it in with high volume microtransactions, while in RR3 they are few and far between (VIP status, plus cosmetics which are free anyway if you FU). It'll cost you $150 to buy GC at the store to FU one (of three!) DPi cars, which really is just nuts so no one does it, but the $5 or $10 that perhaps many would be willing to pay can't buy anything, so it goes unspent and isn't there to pay the employees. That's not the player's fault, it's the game designer's fault.