[citation][nom]ram1009[/nom]I am constantly amazed at how naive most of you are here on this forum. I speculate that the average age must be under 20. Someday many of you will also be in the business world and come to realize that profit is what makes the world go around. It's the responsibility of everybody in business to maximize profit. Demonizing business executives for doing their jobs is, well, naive. The more money companies make the better their product can be. Granted, it doesn't always work out that way but the product that best satisfies it's consumer's needs at the best price will usually win. Game consoles are nothing more than proprietary computers, as is Apple. This si a major reason why we all hate them so much. What this man is supporting benefits all of us. Why curse him for believing he can make a profit by doing so? Many of you would benefit from thinking before responding to an article like this and making yourself appear so ........naive.[/citation]
What is this, someone with a job on Tom's?
Here's a tip kids, programmers expect to be paid for their work, like most adults with jobs. You buy the game, you're paying them for the original game. People sit down and actually get paid to make the game you're playing. Anything that comes after the original game, expansions, maps, ANYTHING, requires ADDITIONAL WORK. That's right, they have to pay people again to make those expansions, so yes, you're going to have to save up your lunch money and pay more for their hard work. They aren't going to make new content for you for free, out of the goodness of their hearts.
As far as subscription fees go, guess what, people also have to make the website you visit for the game, sit around babysitting you as GMs, and maintain the server and website, those don't come free either. Add in server and connection costs and there's your subscription fee.
You can complain about what you're getting in return for those fees, but the game price, expansion price, and subscription price are all going towards having employees, these fees aren't going away. With that being said, I would much rather these fees go towards the developers of the game than the console developer. When developers continue to get money from a game, this allows them to pay their workers to continue to improve and update. When they aren't making income, no one has any reason to make anything new, because they can't pay their employees to do so. Someone mentioned MMORPGs, that's how they work, they keep updating and they keep making money with whatever model they use, if they stop updating then people stop playing and they stop making money. The real question is why console makers think they can charge for providing content they aren't developing. Console makers sell you the hardware, that's all they get paid to do, make the hardware. I don't have to pay Dell to play a PC game on their PC, why should I pay MS to play a game on XBox? Kotick's an idiot, no doubt, but this is what he's saying. He'd prefer the plug and play and affordability of a console, but without the greedy console companies trying to get their cut for making the hardware. Then again, Activision is really more of the publisher than developer, and publishers get just as greedy.
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