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Kevrawr930 t1_j21nl96 wrote

Reply to comment by PBFT in Activision's Boston studio workers announce unionization by No-Drawing-6975

???

The first comment I replied to was trying to explain the price increase of games away by stating that the cost of game production had increased. I told you that that couldn't be the real reason because their profits have increased even more than their costs.

Now you seem to not understand how I could possibly think the 70 dollar price was just simple capitalist greed and nothing more.

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PBFT t1_j21qda2 wrote

You’re confusing two different values for being the same: one is the profits of a publisher and the other is the profits of a development team within a publisher.

Yeah Activision is making record profits off the back of Call of Duty, Diablo Immortal, Candy Crush, etc., but Crash 4 seemingly didn’t meet sales expectations so Toys for Bob was restructured to support Call of Duty development for a while and are now making a GaaS Crash game. If the game rakes in $10 more per game, Activision would be more inclined to let them keep making single player games.

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Kevrawr930 t1_j222rfr wrote

Yes.

One, single entity controls the profits of the teams working under them. The context clues in the previous sentence should lead you to the answer.

If the publishers are doing well, the studios who make the games that are their sole source of revenue should be doing equally well.

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