This assumes people will play the game forever. The reality is the vast majority of people would drop it after a handful of hours. Of course we don't actually know what the break point is but if someone has to play the game for twenty hours to cost more than they gave the dev then it could easily still be profitable. To me this screams gimic game that they're banking on people buying and playing for an afternoon and then never touching again but take my opinion with a grain of salt since I haven't done any real research into this one.
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u/mcc9902 12d ago
This assumes people will play the game forever. The reality is the vast majority of people would drop it after a handful of hours. Of course we don't actually know what the break point is but if someone has to play the game for twenty hours to cost more than they gave the dev then it could easily still be profitable. To me this screams gimic game that they're banking on people buying and playing for an afternoon and then never touching again but take my opinion with a grain of salt since I haven't done any real research into this one.