Re:Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf]
by profalseidol on Thursday April 26, 2018 @08:56PM
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Such is the way of Capitalism. Profits over people. Otherwise you'll get eaten by other capitalists (or Oracle), since you have less 'growth'.
People in the industry needs get people to pay more than full price whether they like it or not.
But I work adjacent to some video game industry business strategy folks... and I can say that the various EA/microtransaction/season pass/pay2win boycotts haven't convinced anyone that those are the wrong way to go.
People in the industry are generally convinced that the golden goose is getting people to pay more than full price and now there are just footnote conversations about "can we get away this"