…The competitive pressure was intense, the monetisation sophistication ran deep, and the organisational systems that emerged were forged under conditions Western studios have never had to face. As Tom van Dam, who…
… That hasn't been helped by pricing , for sure, but it's hard to ignore how thin its first party game slate has been compared to the PS4 era, even if what has been released has mostly been of excellent quality. …
… The second-hand market, which used to exert a huge downward pressure on pricing and sales once a game had been out for only a couple of weeks, has collapsed . …
…It recently hiked the price of the in-game currency, V-Bucks, and has now aggressively slashed costs with major layoffs. Any round of layoffs is painful, but such massive cuts resulting…
… Prices have come down to a place where you can run a game like this, and that's really lucky for us, because we bet on that, and that turns out to be true." The monetization model also scales. …
…Below Zero, Unknown Worlds is currently working on a new genre-defining game, which is slated to launch into early access in 2022." The price: $500 million initially, with an additional $250…