/v/ - Video Games

>>16183468

Cause the CEOs make gorillions, and tons of AAA games hardly break even just because their advertising and dev budget is so huge. So they may rake in huge amounts of revenue, but it's quickly squandered.

Some games are cashcows, that doesn't mean its audience buys all other games equally. How is that hard to understand?

Follow the nose

Actually, even AAA games fail now, and we are entering a period of fatigue.

Also, we must note that games sell the most at sales, where they cost like $1 or $5, so the revenue isn't as big.

GOG, in particular, faces a problem of PR and mismanagement and unable to get new games.

when you realize more than half of the industry's revenue comes from mobile it starts to make a lot more sense

>everyone on the industry just seems to barelly survive

they're mostly talking shit, lots of starting jobs in the industry are 40K a year and many intermediate ones are 60K.

big companies are wasting money on latest trends instead of making proper games

and companies that are good at what they do and have a niche decide to take wild risks and destroy their fanbase for what? some another trend

its basicly their own fucking fault

It's a lie

mobile games. They account for virtually all "growth" in the industry.

Why can't shitskins into English?

Learn the fucking language.

>>16183468

>Why the game industry makes every year more and more profit, breaking records and surpassing the other industries combined, but everyone on the industry just seems to barelly survive, with layouts news and studios closures, now even GOG has trouble surviving.

>I just can't understand that.

The country's that were with less income, now have more income. Some of those tens of millions of people play games and even pay for them whereas they could not before. Football/Soccer/Divegrass game international sales records should back this up. Also, the F2P model probably when successful, is really successful. Kids wearing Fortnite pjs to bed, lunchboxes etc, doesn't have to be just the game.

>>16183468

>Why the game industry makes every year more and more profit

I'm pretty sure they lost money last year, cute anime girl.

>>16183776

>lost money

lol I mean, they had less profit than the year before. It's 5 am over here. Need to go to sleep.

Because everyone blows way too much money on advertising and the artist's unions are bleeding everyone dry because they wasted a shitload of money on commie shit

Also whale cash is drying up in the western world, which is why they're now preying on the chinese

>>16183468

Because like any other industry, the executives take all the wealth for themselves and let the people who actually make them the money fight over the scraps. That's why Activision's CEO gets a $15 million sign on bonus while real programmers in vidya make about $40k annually with unpaid overtime (which thanks to crunch time, amounts to about 6 months per game) and without any job security because vidya has more contract work than any other tech job.

Which I think that's the most fucked up part of all of it. Whoever is determining how much game devs get paid seem to be obsessed with the idea of making sure that they're paying developers as little as they need to live comfortably. I suppose it only makes sense that the leading entertainment industry attracts the most vile kikes to it. In reality, indie devs like Toby Fox get all the money. He made a popular game, now has like $3 million in the bank and since most of the outside help he got with the game was commission work, they're not leeching off of him.

>>16183887

in every single company the person sitting on a computer coding is seen as a complete expense and write off and get treated as such. while people making sales are the "revenue makers". unless you cause a direct uptick on revenue you are treated and paid like garbage

>>16183468

Because the industry gets more and more expensive. GTA might sell more copies than God but it does it once every 5 years. How many industries can invest 5 years into 1 product and live off it for another 5?

That's how most industries are, other industries just do a better job hiding it and are more professional. You don't see the people who hold the boom mic for a TV show complaining on twitter about how a man raped them by looking at them.

Sage to avoid blackpillfag joining the fray

>>16185054

You should see what they made on GTAO's MTX kikery.

>>16183468

It's 100% CEOs taking more than their fair share of the profit. Activision had like a 300:1 ratio between average employee wage and the CEO's salary. An average across all companies is like 140:1

>>16185221

Why are you such a leftist mouth piece? The reason why CEOs make huge amounts of money is they have huge amounts of responsibility. When something breaks the CEO is the final port of calling to fix it. He is the one who has to represent the company in public, while also working as top dog behind the scenes. Workers clock off and go home, they call it a day and don't care any more. A CEO is never off call, has to always be ready to jump on a plane and be some where else, sleep be damned.

Mismanagement, overestimations, large projects and games being flops.

To those that say CEOs steal all the money I bet you want game devs to unionize as well. Who authorizes CEOs checks? The (((investors))). (((Investors))) in the 21st century are what you would call vulture capitalists. They invest in companies expecting rapid growth and quick millions of dollars. (((Investors))) with stocks in a publically traded company rule that company with a seat on the board of directors. If you get developers to unionize in the west then (((investors))) will vote to close all studios in the west and do what American industry did: outsource to India and China. This means less jobs in the west which means less spending money.

All the people getting laid off can do is diversify their skill sets or create their own privately owned companies with no stocks. Mobile gambling simulators are where the money is at. Make mobile gambling simulators. Or create a digital distribution platform and become a digital reseller of 5 dollar indie pixel shit.

AAA development of all software is going to be outsourced soon because of Soviet America has no production jobs. Global censorship is expected because everything will be produced in China and India. Hollywood makes shitty movies because China. The west's voice does not matter for they have no money to spend. And that's the tip of the iceberg.

Games losing revenue is more than a video game industry problem. It's a macroeconomic problem specifically with how (((foreign investors))) who avoid paying taxes in the America and other banks through loopholes in the tax code and bail the economy when their monopoly bubble pops. Then they move labor off shore when government enforces regulations. To discuss a solution to the macroeconomic problem means to go to another board in another thread because off-topic.

>>16185302

Unionizing of the game industry would be the death of it, the same pieces of shit that deliver a bad game would always have their jobs secured, so why not push for it to happen?

>>16185308

It would end game development in the west just as it ended factories, film making, and animation on shore. Everything is done overseas. Hollyjew uses CGI more than ever because it's cheaper to outsource. Computer chip parts are outsouced which is why your games consoles and PC parts are made in China. The reason is because unions killed the job market by rewarding parasites that corrupt them more than harder workers that earned it.

>>16183468

1 - Fake numbers used to deceive investors into wasting money on the industry.

2 - The higher ups getting away with most of the profit while everyone else (including shareholders) lose money.

3 - Completely incompetent subhumans managing the money, spending as much (or even more) than the company earned from their previous sales.

>>16185302

Investors don't authorize CEO checks, board of directors do.

The only thing >>16185239 said with even the slightest grounding in reality is that CEOs represent the company in public as an easily replaceable figurehead.

Even the lowliest of devs (web developers) spend nearly all of their 5-9 time working and learning to pick up all the diversity hire slack.

The board of directors makes all decisions.

Nominating a new director is usually so jewed that the ballots shareholders would even vote on are handpicked by the board.

>>16185480

Where do you think head of the board of directors come from? They are often appointed as the biggest investors in the company. Majority stock holders practically own the company. Therefore they often manage the company with a seat on the BoD. They are often from other major holdings companies like Vivendi or Tencent.

>>16185239

man i'm so glad i'm barely able to afford to live so our CEO Jewishberg Goldstein can afford to snort cocaine off 8 year old prostitute's asses on his private jet

>>16183641

t. fag who only knows english

owo

>Why the game industry makes every year more and more profit,

China's microtransaction addiction and mobile games adding to the stats

>>16186345

Really it's starting to boil down to this.You don't need to keep a lot of staff on board and make good games if you can have a small team make a good enough game that the bugmen will gladly dump all their money into pay-2-win microtransactions. I guess Russians too since Halo Online was going to be Russia exclusive and featured pay-2-win weapons. Those being weapons that did more damage, fired faster or held more ammo per magazine.

>>16183468

>Why

Jews. Speculating while the goy actually works.

>>16186280

Maybe you should fix your life bexause jews aren't going to stop being jews.

>>16185221

>fair share

look at this commie fuck.

>>16183468

*Why does.

Come on.

I always though GoG going through a stuggling phase was inevitable. They release DRM free titles which already excludes a big portion of AAA and indie games. GoG galaxy started off on the wrong foot and then kneecapped itself later on. It needed more publicity and despite everything CDPR knows they couldn't release The Witcher on purely GoG since I doubt it would rake in that amount of dosh.

And it's an unfortunate fact that faggots want absolute nonsense like cards or achievements or a halfassed social media equivalent while playing their games instead of a standalone launcher that allows you to selectively pick updates and also adds in goodies like soundtrack and artwork without charging you for it. The way I see it PC gaming is still Steam in the eyes of a lot of parasites people who outright don't give a shit.

A gamble to help resuscitate the platform would be to stick Cyberpunk 2077 exclusively on GoG for PC, but that could backfire and kill both CDPR and GoG instead, or at the very least their interest in the PC market.

Because of China. The bugmen buy anything you throw at them.

>>16183468

the growth's being driven by venture capital, which is literally just "have some money, see you in a while for my cut when you hit the big time"

>>16184738

Zoomers are the biggest fucking plague ever. They will be the cause of everything we love turning to mobileshit. There is nothing we can do to stop it. AAA kikes have struck a goldmine that will literally never run out. Mobileshit is the only future for this medium. They fucking won.

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>>16188103

>zoomers

>blackpillfag is from cuckchan

Imagine my shock

>>16183478

This. The vast majority of games make no/little money. The increase in overall profit comes from the top ~10% games.

Games make money through microtransactions, but it seems nowadays instead of nickel and diming the audience, it is fifty and sixty dollaring them. After the initial $60 price tag.