• MudMan@fedia.io
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    12 days ago

    Team Cherry is four people and they knew for a fact they were guaranteed to sell millions of copies.

    Most games have teams orders of magnitud larger and can’t guarantee how well they’ll sell.

    If Expedition 33, which is from a mid-sized studio and punching above its weight for how few people they have, had set its price on a per-developer basis to match Silksong, it would have cost 200 bucks. Baldur’s Gate 3 would have been 2500.

    This is a bad take.

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          12 days ago

          Well, I don’t have to have a take as my opinion is reflected in this meme. If I have to attack the top half of it, we would be here all day, so I don’t want to bother anyone with it.

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            12 days ago

            OP here had a response to the opinion expressed in the meme. All you did was say “I disagree”.

            You don’t have to have a take but if you’re going to go to the point of writing something, not having anything to contribute is annoying and that’s what I’m complaining about. Understand?

            Good, now go back to downvoting everything you disagree with, like everyone else does.

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              12 days ago

              Good, now go back to downvoting everything you disagree with, like everyone else does.

              I don’t know who you are talking about.

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                  12 days ago

                  Did I explained afterwards my stance on this, yes. Did I downvote everyone whom I disagree with on this? no. Who is annoyed by that practice, you and only you.

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        I’ll forgive the zero content response because, frankly, it was right there and we all had to get it out of our systems early.

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      The first Hollow Knight was released at the same price. They never had a guarantee, yet they still delivered the game with basically the same quality level that leads to Silksong being so highly anticipated.

      They just did more of what they are doing without asking for more DESPITE their first game blew up. For comparison, you could look at CDPR keeps expanding due to their initial Witcher success and lands on the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077 (GOG is still a really good thing they end up making though)