[JamesLeonis]

The whole market is tilted towards "Whale" purchasers who outspend everybody else by a longshot. That's why its all gamepasses, lootboxes, and micro-transactions.

"Whales" present the same problem to video game companies as a single large customer has on a small business or a lucrative vertical in large businesses (see Google, Facebook). That outsized revenue stream dictates where the rest of the product goes because nothing brings in close to the same revenue.

[throwaway5959]

And yet we have games like Assassins Creed Odyssey/Valhalla and Horizon Forbidden West that are loved and don’t require any extra cost after purchase. Games are the cheapest entertainment out there outside of borrowing books from the library.

[KptMarchewa]

Are you really talking about asscreed as a game with no microtransactions?