You seem to be operating under some notion that particular work deserves a particular amount of pay. That’s backwards. People pay for what they get, not for what the seller’s cost of goods.
We know that Larian is doing very well financially. Their devs are happy and well paid.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
You seem to be operating with no knowledge of how capitalism is supposed to work. I’m the long run competition amongst consumer options forces companies to drive prices down to ~ costs + a reasonable margin.
Where that doesn’t happen is in cases of monopolies, monopsonies, oligopolies, and generally in areas where there is a lack of competition.
Like in the case of Valve’s effective PC gaming monopoly and gamer’s dumbass insistence on defending it.
So the fuck what? You think every developer is? You think Larian wouldn’t appreciate 30% of all of their sales money not going straight to Valve for doing jack shit?
nednobbins@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I haven’t studied “capitalism” but my Masters degree is in Financial Engineering. Since you seem to care about formal economics, how do you propose solving Akelof’s Market for Lemons?
Valve solves the information asymmetry. That’s a net gain for both buyers and sellers. But you’ve studied economics, so you probably know that already.
So let’s skip to the meat of the question. How do you propose determining the intrinsic value of resolved information asymmetry.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Lmfao, you’re literally trying to pull a Goodwill Hunting? Bruh we’ve seen this movie.
How about you explain precisely what information is asymmetric and what they’re solving?
nednobbins@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
You’re the one claiming to be the economics expert. I’m simply correcting the record.