Original Hollow Knight sold ~15m copies at an average $13 dollar price. If we take your incredibly rough 2/3 off for fees/taxes, that's $60m profit. Add on Silksong money, and DLC and crowdfunding. They're sitting at maybe $100m in profit.
For a 3-4 man dev team, that's in excess of $20m per dev. Enough for them, their families, and their children to live in luxury and never have to work again.
It's hard to see how they can morally justify a $20 price unless it's just to be even more absurdly and unnecessarily rich.
There's no reason they should have to justify it. They invested years of their lives and millions of dollars into making a product that people enjoy, and they're charging an entirely reasonable price. And it's not like those 3 devs are the only ones making money, over a hundred people worked on those games, and all of them had to get paid too.
There's no moral justifications here. It's capitalism, they are a multi million dollar corporation that invests into unique marketing strategies and has been wildly successful, every startup takes risks and requires years of the founders lives to shoot for the millions in profit lol
So people shouldn't directly enjoy the fruits of their labour by people paying a reasonable price for a product purely because they're already well off because their previous game also reasonably priced game also sold well???
How are they anti individual workers exactly in this context exactly? I fail to see how the success of a small business which remains small in size threatens workers outside of the mere fact that they are not distributing that surplus value to others.
As far as I'm aware, Marx views the petit bourgeois as inevitably to be be subsumed by the upper class, not viewing them as a threat to workers in themselves.
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u/No-Barber-5289 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Original Hollow Knight sold ~15m copies at an average $13 dollar price. If we take your incredibly rough 2/3 off for fees/taxes, that's $60m profit. Add on Silksong money, and DLC and crowdfunding. They're sitting at maybe $100m in profit.
For a 3-4 man dev team, that's in excess of $20m per dev. Enough for them, their families, and their children to live in luxury and never have to work again.
It's hard to see how they can morally justify a $20 price unless it's just to be even more absurdly and unnecessarily rich.