For the record, did write your response after the first paragraph or just the first line? It's part of an experiment I'm working on; I'm trying to pinpoint the moment an audience stops or starts listening and testing various hypotheses as to why. Full disclosure: right around here is the most common.SonicKoala said:Did I ever say that companies should offer their services at a loss? No, I didn't. I'm fully aware that the primary goal of most businesses is to generate a profit, and I'm completely fine with that, but offering up sub-par, unfinished products at full price is one of the worst possible ways to cut costs. Plenty of game developers are capable of producing quality products that actually work at launch - that's all I'm asking, and it is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect as a video game consumer.
So, no, once again, there is no reason for me, or anybody else, to accept the kind of behaviour that Ubisoft is exhibiting. Yes, make a profit, that's fine, but the product upon which your company is dependent for those profits better be worth buying - that goes for any business. If that's not the case, then that business deserves to go under.
In summary: Good job! Keep doing what you're doing, it's good for the market.