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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: It's Been A Busy Year For Video Games
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 12:02:42 -0800
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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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