Re: It's Been A Busy Year For Video Games

On 1/2/2025 12:04 PM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:03:11 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

And there are devs like Larian that just push against the headwinds with
a monumental effort and deliver an incredible product that _not everyone
will like_. I hope that made a ton of money, because this "it's a
survival roguelike FPS with RPG elements, robust crafting, and
basebuilding" stuff has got to go. I don't think anyone really likes "all
of the above." It's just that such games appeal to a wider audience with
their diluted mediocrity.

https://steam-revenue-calculator.com/app/1086940/baldur's-gate-3
"...estimate that Baldur's Gate 3 made $1,721,077,585.92in gross revenue since its release. Out of this, the developer had an estimated net revenue of $507,717,887.85."
There's other places besides Steam it's on though, so some more than that, but how much who knows, so I'll ignore that.
That doesn't cover Hasbro's cut, which drops it to a bit more than $400m
Then there's other costs like payroll, employment taxes etc. which I've seen estimated at $160m.
So they probably actually have more than $240m in profit from it, but those last two estimates are pretty sketchy.

So, IMO, we are in a transition year for the industry. Time to massage
that with careful expenditure of our money, especially rewarding the good
with full-price spends.
 I think even snapping up freebies might send a bad message. It's time to
be a discriminating consumer.

I'm a bit more wary of just going for the Number this year, it's making it a bit hard to find the games I want to play in all the cruft.  Steam at least lets me organize them into folders, so it's not as big a problem there.  Even if there's few giveaways for Steam games, I have bought tons of cheap games in past years (not this one) that I've lost interest in even trying. I have a folder called "zGarbage" (z so it's on the bottom) of 75 games I've actually tried that I've found were absolute garbage.
I don't see a way to do that on the other clients, while I have looked, I haven't looked very hard.
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