Yep. What's even worse is he was defending it with faulty logic (SNES price bit completely ignores manufacturing costs of then vs now, where we have digital options) and stating that "with some rational thought" that the prices are reasonable.
Not to mention the market for games is ten times bigger than it was 20 years ago...
100k copies sold used to be a resounding success, now that is the kind of numbers a decent indie game sells.
EA closes studios that 'only' sell 1.5 million copies of a game...
Meanwhile Unknown worlds (natural selection 2 devs) :
-managed to sell a game with more content and fancy graphics
- mod support (and mod tools that are supposedly expensive to create and maintain , at least that's the wafer thin excuse people use to rationalise battlefield and cod no longer supporting mods)
- on their own engine (having to fund engine development)
-WITH multiple free expansion packs
All for a launch price of 20 bucks.
They sold 'only' a few hundred thousand copies (a decent amount of them at sales prices well below 20 bucks)
edit: oh and it had proper dedicated servers too, both ran by Uwe themselves AND giving the community full access to run their own.
End result? They made enough money to pay for development of NS2 and to entirely fund their next game... And they are content.
Meanwhile these assholes at turtle rock sell this barebones anti consumer, anti gamer modern DLC factory for way too much money and will apparently somehow manage to lose money on making it when it eventually bomb horribly. (Which it will, at least the definition of a AAA bomb sales wise, it'llprobably still undeservedly sell similar numbers to ns2 at 3x the price).
Learn to budget, and stop lying to and alienating your fan base with your excessive greed
That monster race quip is just a condescending cherry on a shitcake.
'guys guys people are so easy to manipulate we can use this meme to rally people behind our game while ripping them off at the same time'
So many layers of insulting the intelligence of their (former) fanbase.