The next title has to generate more revenue than the last. Forever. Eternally.
Companies expect perpetual growth. No ceiling.
This has a breaking point that this meme captures pretty nicely :)
Welcome to capitalism, where making insane amounts of profit isn't good enough unless it's 5% more insane than it was last year.
How is CDPR on the same level as EA?
Have you already forgotten the Cyberpunk 2077 launch?
Cyberpunk launch was a disaster and the game was a mess, but I think it wasn't strictly greed based disaster like many others, but more of a fuckup caused in big part by covid. They didn't have enough time to adapt to the lockdowns and didn't have either the budget or the will to postpone the launch once again. I'd argue it's different from just blatant usual shit that other mentioned companies do
Okay. Dev goes into negative shoveling even more money and retaining the original development team into a product they already released to apologize. New expansion completely revamps the game and ignites hundreds of positive reviews and complete public opinion turnaround.
Now remind me when modern EA ever gave a game post release care. Most of their catalogue is just games they already released but with less features now so they can add it back in 4 years as a marketing ploy to be new. They aren't even in the same league.
