See, here’s a game that WB owns, that players actually kind of liked and desperately want more content out of, and they can’t figure out how to make money in the easiest of situations.
Literally any half assed DLC could be added to this game, have a $20 price tag slapped on as DLC, and I’d wager 70-80% of people who played it would buy it. A new professor. A new class to take. A new dungeon.
They built a huge beautiful world that feels completely empty, the game was fun, but it desperately needs more added onto it. How do these idiot execs not see that it’s a dump truck full of money sitting there just waiting? They could milk this game for years and get free money.
Instead… a small free update for a subset of them. Just… do they not want the money?
I think it’s a classic problem in arts. The initial game was easy money: make a good Harry Potter branded game and if it even did 1% of the numbers that the books did it’s a slam dunk.
The cost to add DLC is enormous and based on the way the game was received (lots of controversy when it came out) and the natural fall off of any videogame player base, the money might still be good, but it won’t be guaranteed. And that’s the only thing corporations as big as WB care about.
They built a huge beautiful world that feels completely empty
Exactly why I stopped playing it. The moment the gameplay shifted to outside of the school… I tried my damned hardest to complete the game. Just couldn’t. Too boring.
See, here’s a game that WB owns, that players actually kind of liked and desperately want more content out of, and they can’t figure out how to make money in the easiest of situations.
Literally any half assed DLC could be added to this game, have a $20 price tag slapped on as DLC, and I’d wager 70-80% of people who played it would buy it. A new professor. A new class to take. A new dungeon.
They built a huge beautiful world that feels completely empty, the game was fun, but it desperately needs more added onto it. How do these idiot execs not see that it’s a dump truck full of money sitting there just waiting? They could milk this game for years and get free money.
Instead… a small free update for a subset of them. Just… do they not want the money?
Too busy delisting smaller games
Edit: and probably whatever supposed tax evasion scam that goes with that.
I think it’s a classic problem in arts. The initial game was easy money: make a good Harry Potter branded game and if it even did 1% of the numbers that the books did it’s a slam dunk.
The cost to add DLC is enormous and based on the way the game was received (lots of controversy when it came out) and the natural fall off of any videogame player base, the money might still be good, but it won’t be guaranteed. And that’s the only thing corporations as big as WB care about.
well who wants to operate a business where there is risk.
Exactly why I stopped playing it. The moment the gameplay shifted to outside of the school… I tried my damned hardest to complete the game. Just couldn’t. Too boring.