How should developers meet the costs of AAA buy-to-play video game development and publishing?
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What makes a game an expensive game? Is there a chart that shows the cost of making game vs the profit of game sales throughout the years? Maybe games aren’t really expensive to make in comparison to what they were and we are just being told they are
Development teams are bigger, their salaries and compensation are bigger, tools are more expensive, marketing is more expensive, afaik royalties are fairly consistent, but box prices are the same they were 20 years ago. That doesn't add up to the same.
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Has the percent of profits from game sales gone up as well or is a loss taken because of company growth? I’m not trying to be an arse. Just generally curious on how the profit margin has changed vs expenses in the game industry.
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Well if you're selling for $60 and not accounting for inflation over 20 years and increase salaries, team sizes, and costs, then profit margin can't go anywhere but down. Hence microtransactions, season passes, etc.
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