Absolutely. Sure Publishers want their cut, but it’s an agreement between Dev and pub. This just feels like Bungie blaming Acti-Blizz for all the things people didn’t like about Destiny.
It sounds nice, and yeah, that’s primarily publisher responsibility, but developers are allowed to talk to their publishers about pricing strategy. Framing it as if they have zero responsibility is a bit of a cop out. Limited comments and we don’t have the full story, but it makes it kind of sound like they didn’t even bring it up.
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 2 days ago
katze@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
You’re trying too hard to put the blame on the wrong party.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I already addressed that, but more than one party can shoulder blame at the same time, not everything is black and white.
kortex64@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Microsoft isn’t their publisher, they’re their owner. You’re utterly deluded if you think Obsidian is in any capacity to talk the price down with Microsoft, especially after Avowed failed.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
We don’t know if they tried to “talk” to Microsoft and they said “do as your fucking told.”