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Quote: Originally Posted by Kstat

The game costs exponentially more to make than it did 10 years ago and the price for the base game is still the same, despite the fact $60 in 2009 is worth $71 today. Over the last ten years they added more staff, more unlicensed retired players, more online infrastructure, invested more in more advertising.... and the base price for the game is locked at $60. And the naïveté to tell a publicly traded company how much revenue should be “enough” for them is so far outside the realm of reality I don’t know where to begin. This is kindergarten logic. MyTeam is 99% the reason we still have classic teams in the game 7 years after the gimmick peaked. They add those players to the base game anyway and we never have to play MyTeam to access 99% of them.

My reply was to someone talking about the NECESSITY of having those mechanics in the game, not simply a company trying to make money, of course certain companies are going to try and make as much as they can and get away with whatever they can to do it, my argument is they make enough off of retail sales of the game to still be successful in making NBA 2k as a series, they dont need to have excessive microtransactions in the game to have classic teams and pay for more staff, just do the simple math, they sold 9 million copies of nba 2k19, multiply that by 60$(cheapest version of the game) even with that being taxed, thats still well enough to make the game without excessive microtransactions and a pay to win model.


They need more than 5 hundred million dollars to pay for rights to players and more staff, and notoriously bad servers? Yes their gonna try to make as much money as possible, but dont give the excuse that they NEED excessive microtransactions and a shady business model for the sake of the games well being and the possibility for the games creation.