Quote Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1 View Post
yes i have actually ran my own business before. i never said they shouldn't pay attention to cost. i stated profit and loss. in other words if it will cost more to fix the game than the anticipated profit off of it they should shut it down. if the anticipated profits are above the level all companies set upon originally starting a project then they should fix it.

i can promise you there is more profit to do things right the first time than what they have been doing so far. if they want to go by what things have cost they should fire the entire team including yoshi and shut the entire game down. they spent money anticipating making profits in the long run.

i'm not going to spend 10$ to buy something if i can only get paid 8$ for it.
i will spend that same 10$ if i feel i can make 20$.

big business and small business have different business models. Big business generally believes in operating at a loss for a longer period, to profit later. In fact they often do this even when uneccessary, due probably to taxes, and expectations.

In any event, i wouldnt look at the cost analysis too much, we dont even know what they mean when they say that, it could be cost in terms of time, amount of resources, man hours, or it could just be a BS line they tell people while they sit around.

regardless at the end of the day, they need to be faster than they have been, i really hope that this battle system was some insane task that required years because if this is their pace, they will never compete. They will be completely eclipsed by newer games in terms of content at this pace. I guarantee that guild wars 2 and swtor will drop with a load of content, at this pace this game will not even have completed their first story arc by the time these games come out.