P4_Brotagonist

Yeah it blows my mind that people deny that. I really love that study a few years back where the natty guys lifted perfectly with great nutrition and the juiced guys sat on their asses doing nothing. Then at the end the natty guys still got blown the fuck out by the lazy juicers.

Woah you are the person with that website!? You are the reason I managed to figure everything out and get my disability due to schizophrenia. You rock!

That person is shilling on the levels of an industry plant. I literally have a copypasta with the numbers that I always use for that "but we need money to survive!" argument.

A game releasing around the mid 90's, Metal Gear Solid, barely shipped 6 million copies at 50 dollars(even thougfh you claimed prices haven't gone up in 30 years...). It was one of the best selling games for the PS1. That's 300 million at those pre-inflation prices with a dev cost of 60 million including marketing. That's a staggering(for the time) profit of around 240 million(before inflation).

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 released at a standard rate of 60 dollars(in today's numbers) and sold 25.4 million copies at that rate. It had a production cost of 40 million and a marketing budget of 160 million. That means a profit of of 1.3 BILLION dollars. That doesn't include the insane amount of map packs they sold(30 bucks for each person that bought them).

They sell at the same price because they sell tenfold the amount of copies as in the past, where as if they raised the price their copies sold would drastically plummet. However, they get to double dip by selling the "season pass" for the same fucking price as the game. Then they have people like you defending a fucking company busting record profits BEFORE the microtransactions. If you haven't checked lately, Actvision made more money this year from microtransactions than they did from actual game sales. I'm so tired of reading this absolute nonsense.

The fact that a lot of game company top expenses go into marketing rather than development says it all. Those numbers from above don't even include things like micro-transactions and it was all before the time of lootboxes. It's gotten even more inflated 10 years later.

I'll chime in on this. My uncle was hit by a train several years ago. Somehow, he actually managed to SURVIVE it and woke up from his coma after about 2 months. Everyone said he either was too drunk to notice the train or tried to kill himself. Turns out he was pushed in front of the train by someone.

That's why they do an investigation.