Considering they have only 1 game series and the other series financial reports went to their prespective years. It's not hard to dissasemble
Ps. My spelling is ghastly
Not so much since this is CDProject Holding, not just CDPR. They have a HUGE revenue stream from GOG to consider as well. I don't know if they have other divisions but it looks like the dealt with more the entire company than dividing the two, especially since they do mention the number of activations of Witcher 3 games from GoG in specific terms in the block text, but nothing on units sold total.
And while this may sound like excuses, there's something to consider about the profit numbers. CDP has a huge advantage over EA in one major regard: Poland's labor costs are insanely low in comparison to the US or Canada, so they can claim a larger chuck of sales as profit, which isn't an insignificant factor. I'm not sure how other costs even out. Now what comes next is me musing rather than anything concrete, but I wonder what CDPR (not the entire company) costs are for say office space and utilities vs. say Bioware. I'd say things like computers and other real high end stuff would probably be the same.
This is why I went into history and not economics. And I am the absolute last person to complain about someone else's spelling.
Well, it is pretty early. lol. I'm sorry if you feel condescended to. I don't like EA's policy with this.. that's my main point.
I haven't played the Telltale GoT game, but I got the first one downloaded. I'll come around to it, but I do love TellTale in general. I haven't hated anything yet. It can't be that bad.
Sokay. For my part... To say this week was hellish for me is kind of like saying the sun is warm. So my snark is more than usual. My apologies as well.
As for EA, I'm not sure you're familiar with the fable of the fox and the scorpion? The very very short moral of that story is things act according to their nature. EA's nature, like every corporation in existence, is to make a profit. And I may be jaundiced about this, but unless they're doing truly unethical or immoral things, I tend to shrug since it is their nature.
It's also their nature to protect their butts when it comes to talking to their investors. If they were to lie or really fudge things the SEC fines would be killer. And if DAI didn't do enough to really boost their bottom line, what the SEC would do to them would turn whatever they made off the game into a net loss, since as I've said, along with others, RPGs generally don't make that much. They make a comfortable profit, and if Bioware was still an indie developer, every game they've put out in the last decade would be huge windfalls for the company. But for EA, an rpg is going to add to the bottom line somewhat, but not enough to merit this kind of attention.
You have to understand, my first crpg was Bard's Tale 3 (published by EA back when they were really tiny) on the Apple 2e. I've known for years how much of a niche we are in the industry. So when it came out that DAI got mentioned to the investors as being a huge portion of EA success I blinked and wondered if I'd entered an alternate reality. With so many things against the game, for this to happen seems to be something of an aberration for me because these things just don't happen Dragon Age just doesn't make the same kind of money Madden of FIFA does. And even if it launched well, it sure shouldn't have made enough money be mentioned in the same breath as those two big boys. It knocks my socks off, and I still don't discount the alternate universe theory mind you, but at the moment, the best explanation is that some weird confluence of events somehow managed to override the lack of advertising, the fanbase attitude toward Bioware after DA2 and ME3, and that conventional wisdom is that RPGs don't do huge business. I don't know how they did it. Making virgin sacrifices may have come into play, but they did.
I don't know why EA doesn't release numbers anymore. I'd think there's some good reason (in their minds at least) to stop, but I can't tell you.
Going to cover a couple of other things really quick:
High fantasy is a weird term. Originally it was used to describe a setting with a lot of magic and not a lot of moral ambiguity, in contrast to low fantasy which has little magic and a lot of moral ambiguity. Tolkien is the archetype of the former, the Robert Howard Conan novels are the latter. Dark fantasy is a term that snuck up on me when I wasn't looking but everything I've seen says it handles more mature themes than High Fantasy does. It's a less idealized model of a fantasy world: elves aren't shining beings, and having magic isn't a fix all or make you powerful and respected (or feared in a way that's useful)for example. In high fantasy, good is good, evil is evil, and if a high fantasy hero is flawed, it's enough to be interesting, but not enough to tarnish their hero status if you know what I mean.
I've never played Telltale, I want to but there are some many things I want more
Tl;DR I'm tired, I rambled, take what you will. But what I wrote has to be easier to read than those damn investor reports... Owww...
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