While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.

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[–] mordack550@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's why live services games needs to incorporate micro transactions. The studio needs to have a constant revenue stream to maintain the development and the infrastructure cost.

That's why live services game needs to end

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

That’s why live services games needs to incorporate micro transactions.

Not really. Subscriptions are a thing, or used to be, at least. But they're nowhere as profitable as mtx.

That’s why live services game needs to end

MMORPGs would like a word with you