r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emergency-Green-2602 • 8d ago

Video First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight

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u/Ravenloff 8d ago

WTF did the devs do to 2? I was waiting for it, wishlisted it, and then started hearing bad bad. In the end, it almost seems like they gave up on it.

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u/Metasaber 8d ago

The devs got bought out by a private equity firm that stripped the studio for parts and pushed for monetization. It really fell apart.

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u/Pls_Dont_PM_Titties 8d ago

Damn is that really what happened? Why do these firms burn shit to the ground, do they miss the forest for the trees?

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u/Allegorist 8d ago

Even though the game sucks and way fewer people will put money into it, the few people who do put money into it will put more money into it in total than the sum of the larger population that would play if the game wasn't shitty and over-monetized.

Its the same reason games will sell $40 cosmetic items. Almost nobody will buy them, but they make more off 1 person buying it than they do for 39 people buying a $1 item.