My issue is that the price raises don’t go to more devs or even better conditions for existing devs. They go towards the execs vacation home and another Ferrari.
That said I’ve bought everything for the tw:wh series and pretty much everything total war in general over the last 20 years, I’m a fan of the series and love creative assembly’s games. I’m fine with price increases so long as it results in a better product, I think a lot of the recent complaints have been rooted in price increases have happened but there’s been no improvement, if anything there’s been decline in quality. The last tw:wh3 dlc was meh for many though I’ve enjoyed it so far, and the latest game tw:pharaoh appears to be dead on arrival.
Again, I have no issue with price increases, I’m familiar with how business works, but there needs to be give and take, we pay more, we want at least the same quality as before.
That’s literally true of ALL action against the company, though… The devs don’t have power to magically pay themselves more when the company sees a windfall. The execs do.
Saying, “this will hurt the devs” when attacking the company is worse than useless rhetoric that’s simply wrong. It is NOT TRUE because it is not a unique attribute of this situation… They get fucked 24/7. Saying they’ll get fucked more is basic fear mongering tripe.
My issue is that the price raises don’t go to more devs or even better conditions for existing devs. They go towards the execs vacation home and another Ferrari.
That said I’ve bought everything for the tw:wh series and pretty much everything total war in general over the last 20 years, I’m a fan of the series and love creative assembly’s games. I’m fine with price increases so long as it results in a better product, I think a lot of the recent complaints have been rooted in price increases have happened but there’s been no improvement, if anything there’s been decline in quality. The last tw:wh3 dlc was meh for many though I’ve enjoyed it so far, and the latest game tw:pharaoh appears to be dead on arrival.
Again, I have no issue with price increases, I’m familiar with how business works, but there needs to be give and take, we pay more, we want at least the same quality as before.
These “protests” do nothing against the execs and their Ferraris.
They directly harm the developers though.
That’s literally true of ALL action against the company, though… The devs don’t have power to magically pay themselves more when the company sees a windfall. The execs do.
Saying, “this will hurt the devs” when attacking the company is worse than useless rhetoric that’s simply wrong. It is NOT TRUE because it is not a unique attribute of this situation… They get fucked 24/7. Saying they’ll get fucked more is basic fear mongering tripe.
This isn’t attacking the company though. It’s attacking a single game and the company/publisher will just roll on through.