What the frick is the point in this kind of drip feeding content? It's not a live service game, few people will be playing by the time they add some new costumes so they will be mostly useless.
It allows ATLUS to receive additional funds to pay their staff to finish the real DLC released in September. It also keeps their staff employed and working on a project instead of temporarily laying them off until the next project starts. The first two waves could also exist to make this more digestible for the consumer. They could have just made the DLC just a pre-order but this way the consumer is receiving something during the 6 months while they work on the real DLC.
>overpays $70 for some woke nu-game in the year 2024 >still wants to spend more via tip because he's a giga-consoomerist homosexual
All new games should be max $39.99 like they used to be. This guy is either a legit sub 60 IQ moron or a paid shill trying to normalize $70+ games.
>All new games should be max $39.99 like they used to be
Bargain bin games maybe, used 5 year old ones sure. That 40 dollars is 90 dollars today however.
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“Ybarra allegedly made a bizarre comparison to his and other executives’ pay packages to those of rank-and-file employees, appeared to downplay the value of QA and customer service roles at the studio, and defended the company’s decision to slash annual profit-sharing bonuses,” GameDeveloper.com reports. “If you think that executives are making a lot of money and you aren’t, you’re living in a myth,” he told workers. As GD notes, some Irvine QA make as little as $22 an hour ($45,000 annually), so it’s unclear why Ybarra would suggest otherwise because we’re quite certain he’s not making merely $45,000 a year.
Moreover, some current Blizzard employees were hired as remote employees and live offsite, and Blizzard’s long-talked-about poor wages, coupled with a reduction in the bonus that is supposed to buffer those wages, won’t pay for relocation to or cost-of-living in the expensive Irvine location. Blizzard workers at the meeting apparently pointed out that the move will result in talent losses that have already been ongoing and well-documented for the last several years, which Ybarra apparently dismissed by suggesting that some roles aren’t long-term roles anyway and that people need to do what will make them happy, i.e., if you don’t like to work in-office, you should leave.
As GameDeveloper.com notes, one Blizzard worker characterized the meeting as “the most demoralizing one they’d witnessed since J. Allen Brack made his final internal comments before he departed the company in 2021.”
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>twittertard
ok let's see what twittertard has to say >I've often thought >I wish I could give these folks another 10 or 20 because it was more than my initial 70 >proceeds to list a normalgay shit >70 is a lot but it's an option at the end of the game I wish I had >most will like this TEEHEE but tipping is perfect acceptable here
fricking homosexual of the highest order. cuck energy right here.
Not a single one of those games is $70, thus his argument is completely cracked to begin with. He has no sense of money. He is living off of his parents.
When I "tip you", who I'm really tipping is your publisher who is going to lay you off anyway. You should not want this, but far be it from me to interrupt a twitter moron when they are making a mistake.
That moron could just buy another new copy of the game to support the studio. Or fricking put some money an envelope and send it to the studio's address. Or contact devs of the studio through social media and paypal them money. Fricking idiot. But of course those simple solutions to this manufactured non problem of his wont open up the way for even more "optional" and endless monetization in games. Mike Ybarra shove your tip up your ass and kys now.
The moment you start using shame and threats of laziness, it stops being charity. Tipping culture sucks.
And it's hard to get rid of once you have it, because people get used to seeing prices that are lower than what the company could turn a decent profit on.
>tips are meant as a little bonus to reward exceptional service >jews corrupt it and turn it into an excuse to lower wages and dump a part of the wages they're supposed to pay directly onto the customer instead
Yes mutts really do
I'll tip them with the end of all bat
Perfection
What an insane homosexual LMFAO
>checkmark
homosexual is already tipping Twitter.
Why bother? The suits will take it not them
>Tip your game developers.
gays who buy day one dlc already do
What the frick is the point in this kind of drip feeding content? It's not a live service game, few people will be playing by the time they add some new costumes so they will be mostly useless.
It allows ATLUS to receive additional funds to pay their staff to finish the real DLC released in September. It also keeps their staff employed and working on a project instead of temporarily laying them off until the next project starts. The first two waves could also exist to make this more digestible for the consumer. They could have just made the DLC just a pre-order but this way the consumer is receiving something during the 6 months while they work on the real DLC.
>overpays $70 for some woke nu-game in the year 2024
>still wants to spend more via tip because he's a giga-consoomerist homosexual
All new games should be max $39.99 like they used to be. This guy is either a legit sub 60 IQ moron or a paid shill trying to normalize $70+ games.
he's the CEO of Blizzard or some exec type job I forget
he sold carries on stream in WoW so that tells you he's a giga consoomer and a mega homosexual
>All new games should be max $39.99 like they used to be
Bargain bin games maybe, used 5 year old ones sure. That 40 dollars is 90 dollars today however.
Inflation is a non-argument for making games more expensive.
Isn't inflation finally going down though?
no it actually just rose 4%
Why would mister Biden lie to me
He said the economy was doing great!
good idea, games should just be 30 bucks and you can tip more if it was good enough to deserve it
Okay, but the problem is, at least nowadays, there is NO video game that is that good.
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“Ybarra allegedly made a bizarre comparison to his and other executives’ pay packages to those of rank-and-file employees, appeared to downplay the value of QA and customer service roles at the studio, and defended the company’s decision to slash annual profit-sharing bonuses,” GameDeveloper.com reports. “If you think that executives are making a lot of money and you aren’t, you’re living in a myth,” he told workers. As GD notes, some Irvine QA make as little as $22 an hour ($45,000 annually), so it’s unclear why Ybarra would suggest otherwise because we’re quite certain he’s not making merely $45,000 a year.
Moreover, some current Blizzard employees were hired as remote employees and live offsite, and Blizzard’s long-talked-about poor wages, coupled with a reduction in the bonus that is supposed to buffer those wages, won’t pay for relocation to or cost-of-living in the expensive Irvine location. Blizzard workers at the meeting apparently pointed out that the move will result in talent losses that have already been ongoing and well-documented for the last several years, which Ybarra apparently dismissed by suggesting that some roles aren’t long-term roles anyway and that people need to do what will make them happy, i.e., if you don’t like to work in-office, you should leave.
As GameDeveloper.com notes, one Blizzard worker characterized the meeting as “the most demoralizing one they’d witnessed since J. Allen Brack made his final internal comments before he departed the company in 2021.”
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this u?
lol
>appeared to downplay the value of QA and customer service roles at the studio
Hes right
Their QA sucked ass
the tip you get is me shilling your game to my friends or not
>Shill shills on twitter
yawn
We need to rangeban americans from EVERYTHING.
>twittertard
ok let's see what twittertard has to say
>I've often thought
>I wish I could give these folks another 10 or 20 because it was more than my initial 70
>proceeds to list a normalgay shit
>70 is a lot but it's an option at the end of the game I wish I had
>most will like this TEEHEE but tipping is perfect acceptable here
fricking homosexual of the highest order. cuck energy right here.
Not a single one of those games is $70, thus his argument is completely cracked to begin with. He has no sense of money. He is living off of his parents.
When I "tip you", who I'm really tipping is your publisher who is going to lay you off anyway. You should not want this, but far be it from me to interrupt a twitter moron when they are making a mistake.
That moron could just buy another new copy of the game to support the studio. Or fricking put some money an envelope and send it to the studio's address. Or contact devs of the studio through social media and paypal them money. Fricking idiot. But of course those simple solutions to this manufactured non problem of his wont open up the way for even more "optional" and endless monetization in games. Mike Ybarra shove your tip up your ass and kys now.
Ybarra of all people should know that any tips given to a AAA $70 title would never reach the hands of the actual devs. He's just saying some gay shit
The moment you start using shame and threats of laziness, it stops being charity. Tipping culture sucks.
And it's hard to get rid of once you have it, because people get used to seeing prices that are lower than what the company could turn a decent profit on.
That guys has a genuine learning disability.
>some literally who with the paypiggy twitter mark
Surely his homosexual opinion NEEDS a thread on Ganker
Daily reminder big chains will implement variable pricing to food
Can't you easily buy the cheapest thing then and never have to worry about high grocery prices?
the cheapest thing has also raised in price, and cut half of the product out of the box
Then buy the cheaper item than the cheapest item.
Everything can't be high in demand all at once, that makes no sense.
Wasn't this jackass World of Warcraft's director or some shit for a short while at some point?
theres no frickin way this guy is being serious jesus christ
that is exactly why devs put things like artbooks and ost for sale
what a moron
> Diablo 2 releases
> Fire entire studio that made it
> "But you should pay more because it supports the developers!"
>tip
do Americans really?
>tips are meant as a little bonus to reward exceptional service
>jews corrupt it and turn it into an excuse to lower wages and dump a part of the wages they're supposed to pay directly onto the customer instead
Yes mutts really do