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[–] MudMan@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Both of those things can be true at once. I don't know how much the marketing is "stupidity", ideally marketing makes you money. Execs being overpaid is absoutely a thing.

But even if you took those out games would be very expensive to make. When you have hundreds of people working on something for years numbers start to get very high. Scale is a bitch.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] MudMan@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

You absolutely did not, but keep guessing.