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Helldivers 2 received over 14,000 negative reviews today due to an update that will require PSN accounts next week. (twitter.com)
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[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They find funds and provide marketing, which is astonishingly expensive. I'm not in games, but I do work in a marketing adjacent function. The budgets needed even to do very small marketing exercises are really unbelievable. Campaigns exceed my yearly salary regularly, and we are not doing anything like consumer marketing which I imagine is significantly worse.

Not to justify publisbers' behaviour, but this is partially why they have such stringent demands, I suspect. I assume they are getting some kind of funding or something from the PSN connection, which funds both the game and the marketing needed to make it a success.

[–] onion@feddit.de 5 points 6 months ago

So PSN gives them the money needed to make up for the damage caused by PSN?

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Imagine a publisher established on actual good will though.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Visibility bias. Bad news makes headlines faster then good news or "everything's fine" news. New Blood hasn't done anything fucked and everyone seems fine with them for instance.