What Portion of Cash-Shop Proceeds go toward Development

[Eagleheart]

This could end a lot of people's worries about "padding your wallets" and the like...

How about tell us how you intend to use the proceeds, SE?

o.O

The most direct answer would be that it is none of your business.

You might as well walk down the street and accost the cashier at your local Subway, asking how much that sandwich really cost.

You have not the right to ask a company what they make in profit. o.o If you do not like their service, you may walk away. You may not ask for a copy of their Quickbooks file.

A business exists to make a profit, not to provide a service. They make a profit by providing that service. o.0 They need not answer to anyone on how they spend their money, any more than you need answer to anyone about how you spend your paycheck.

'cause really, when all's said and done, what is your weekly labor really costing? Food, fuel, housing and bills. <.< How much are you skimmin' off the top?

[Nutz]

stuff...

Being that SE is a publicly traded company their profit margins are really anybody's business who cares to ask. That doesn't necessarily translate to a per-project basis, never mind sub-projects, but the point is that if the cash shop does well it incentives SE to put more things in the cash shop, potentially ignoring (probably minor) additions to the game. I don't think anybody wants SE developing items that they have to pay for in addition to their subscription. The only reasonable exception might be if they decided to undertake tons of fan requests and actually had to hire a team dedicated to fulfilling them, completely outside of normal development.

[Fyrebrand]

The more revenue the cash shop generates, the more they will divert time/resources to creating more cash shop items and pressuring players to buy from it. You would be naive to even hope for otherwise.

[KenzieLynch]

The more revenue the cash shop generates, the more they will divert time/resources to creating more cash shop items and pressuring players to buy from it. You would be naive to even hope for otherwise.

I don't think I could have said it better.

[kanjitai]

never mind.

[DefendPopPunk]

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Literally everything about this post is flat out wrong. Take a business class or something before you speak in absolutes about these kinds of things.

[Parz3val]

Literally everything about this post is flat out wrong. Take a business class or something before you speak in absolutes about these kinds of things.

Yeah that was pretty funny to read lol

[Eagleheart]

Literally everything about this post is flat out wrong. Take a business class or something before you speak in absolutes about these kinds of things.

I'll do ya one better.

I own a business with payroll over one and a half million dollars a year. Been in the business ten years o.O took ownership three years before now. Just got our employees a $5/hour raise.

But continue to inform me, kind sir, on how wrong I am about why the business exists, and what business you have enquiring about anyone else's profit margin.

[Parz3val]

lol worthy

...continue to inform me, kind sir, on how wrong I am about why the business exists, and what business you have enquiring about anyone else's profit margin.

I'll just leave this here..........

SEC mandated Annual Reports to Shareholders: http://www.inc.com/encyclopedia/annual-reports.html

[Eagleheart]

I'll just leave this here..........

SEC mandated Annual Reports to Shareholders: http://www.inc.com/encyclopedia/annual-reports.html

And this leads you to conclude that you deserve a report from SQEX on how much money they're making on a particular item in their inventory? Are you, in fact, a shareholder?

If you are, in fact, a shareholder, the next question is


what the blue heck are you doing demanding a report ON A GAME FORUM?!

Delusions of self-aggrandizement. Magnificent.

EDIT:

I have a theory. (o.O )

I believe the two of you are actually socialists, believing profit is an inherent evil, and therefore feel an element of moral justification in your benighted demands for information that you have no legal standing asking for.

O.o I think you feel justified inquiring about this because you believe that anyone who makes a dime on anything, be it an airplane or a glass of lemonade, must answer, no, must stand trial for that dime.

And that is delightful to me.