Yes they would.
And they would also have to stretch the prices a bit.
Hence why a single helmet that has its unique attachment not included is $7 USD.
Heck, there are plenty of people who are loose with cash and have an easy addiction to players.
There was an article about a man who discovered Genshin Impact and spent his entire savings on the game.
The guy literally made himself broke.
The bank had an automated system that locked accounts if unusual spending was going on, just in case his card was stolen.
And the guy came into the bank furious that his account was locked, he confirmed that those purchases were indeed his, and then proceeded to spend the remaining of his ~$20,000 he had on the game.
Addictions like this are why Microtransactions are bad when they are abused and designed to be sleazy.
And the marketing/accounting teams view that as a win.
“$200 million profits in just about two months? We MUST have made a great product and be doing the right thing! OUR BEST QUARTER YET !!”
The marketing team lead says to the company director, leaving out the fact that the fans are pissed and all those profits came from either rich-kids or whales.
It’s interesting how you are trying to play this off knowing how much just a shop will bring in, and mind you, there are 2 shops running, 1 in this game and 1 in Halo 5. Just in 2019, Bungie made 300 million just off the shop, so I don’t know where you think you are going with this knowing as time moves on the shop in infinite will get a lot bigger.
With how store prices are fluctuating and with whatever else DLC stuff they are going to include to expand the story, plus profits from other departments such as toys and books and other such; I am pretty sure they are making a killing these past two months so far and much more beyond that.
They just posted on twitter today that the game had the most successful launch of any halo to date with over 20,000,000 users. They just need everyone to buy one thing and a BP with those figures.
Except not all of those players still play the game. You don’t keep a good chunk of the players you gain from launch, not to mention that a lot of those guys are f2p
I’m just throwing things out there, but I do agree with what you said and things will get worse over time. It’s a shame shops are not being used as their intended purpose and that was for actual f2p games.
I don’t mind shops being in a game like this, but I think it’s wrong how 343 is pushing the shop but they have barely added anything to the game in terms of content.
Speculation at best. Other that Steam charts that are irrelevant, there’s no actual source of player pop data.
More to the point, these threads are tired. And they only maybe reach 150-200 posts before they fall off and another one starts. Even then it’s usually the same 20 or so people bickering each time. Even on Reddit, posts there about the store maybe hit a few thousand replies. Even if half of the launch playerbase fell of, it’s still blood in the water. Majority of people either don’t care or are just fine with the prices.
