Warner Bros. profiting off dead developer

>DLC proceeds go to his family

OP confirmed for faggot

Why is it that I love their cartoons yet hate their vidya?

Seriously, I might hate them more than EA

>Profit
>All profit goes to family

Whatever you say OP

Stop being a cynic

>>389005713
Only 70% of it, Warner Jews still get 30% of each sale.

>>389005713
>>389005795

Only 60% and only off the purchases made in US
Everything else goes to WBs pocket

>>389005713
>>389005795
>5$ DLC
>only 3.5$ goes to family
>ALL PROFIT GOES TO FAMILY
Learn to read you inbred retards.
>>389005875
70% mate, 3.50 is 70% of 5$

probably hollywood accounting where his family gets a cut of the net. Never take a cut of the net. The net is a fantasy.

I think it's nice, if I was working on something and died and the people i was working with put some kinda memento in there for me I'd love that shit

Lol this garbage bait

>>389005713
>>389005795
>>389005802
Do you guys typically reply before reading a post in its entirety?

>>389005976
does OP have a source for his claims

>>389005795
>70% of the profit
>in the first year only
>in the US only
>except for like 5 states where WB would have to pay taxes/fees on it so they dont count either
>all of these restrictions thrown in as disclaimer text
Is WB *actively trying* to ruin this game? Every time I've seen this thing pop up except for the initial trailer it's all been dumbshit to ruin the game.

>BioWare dedicated a page in their BG2 manual to a developer who died of sumshit before release
>Cryptic immortalized a community moderator by putting his in-game character into the tutorial as the newbie-helping hero
>WB slaps a pricetag on a DLC for some drone they had die and now they'll even use his corpse as a tool to emotionally manipulate gamers into giving them money

weWB

>>389005581

did these motherfuckers not offer life insurance? Cause if he has life insurance yall can fuck right off.

>>389006128
I think this is going to be a Mankind Divided style 'publisher does all in its power to fuck up the shit of the dev team' situation. Which is sad.

>>389006182
Worse.

Not some random drone, their executive producer.

Think of them did this shit in Skyrim Super HD Edition for Todd Howard.

>>389006498
Eidos Montreal is plenty shitty on their own to fuck up games. After all, HR was shit. Not surprising MD was shit too.

>>389005713
Read the fine print, dipshit, that only applies in 44 of the US states. In Alabama, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Mississippi, South Carolina, and everywhere outside the USA, Warner Bros gets to keep all of it.

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>devs to fundraiser
>except when it would be legally troublesome
>this is nu-/v/'s reason to cry TORTANIC TORTANIC on yet another game

Boring.

>>389005875
>>389005945
that dosent mean they profit

>>389007426
>You shouldn't call studios out on shitty behavior

>fuck consumers are mad at us for our DLC practices
>I know let's exploit the death of one of our producers to sell some more DLC

>hurrdurrr capitalism is bad durrrrhurrrrrr
Bunch of commie fucking shits around here

>>389007615
>wanting to give money to their dead friend's family is bad!
>it's bad because they are not giving everything to them, even if that's impossible by law!
>tortanic! tortanic!

>>389007737
>even if that's impossible by law!
Damn you're retarded

>>389007865
Explain exactly how. I bet you can't.

>>389007942
Name a single law that stops them from donating money to the family for every copy sold. You're the one making the claim here mate

>>389005854
no they fucking don't you dumb cunts. jesus christ are you guys this desperate to pin shit on DA JOOZ. Around $1 or $1.50 of the $5 goes to HOSTING THE CONTENT. it's the combined fees of having the DLC on PSN or wherever at all. this has been explained in countless places and it seems like people are willingly ignoring it.

every dime of "profit" goes straight to the dude's family for a month. which is exceedingly generous. a fraction of each $5 goes to paying for the server space.

>>389008097
>every dime of "profit" goes straight to the dude's family for a month
Only in the US. And only for a month.
It's a drop in the fucking bucket for them

>>389007714
Not communism

>>389008097
t. worried Jew

>>389005581
whys he an orc slayer when he looks like an orc

>>389005854
Microsoft/Sony/Valve get 30% for every digital purchase made. They're the jews in this scenario.

>>389008360
it's literally pennies from each transaction to pay for hosting the content on their servers. no DLC profits go 100% to the creators, ever. there are fees on every piece of fucking DLC ever hosted on any server. people are so goddamned stupid sometimes

>>389008534
Completely ignoring all the purchases outside the US

>>389005581
>You will never be known as Farthog Orc-Slayer bara monstrosity and cream-filler of sissy white bois
WHY
EVEN
LIVE

>>389005581
>Sorry to hear about your loss, here's FART HOG. That'll be $59.99.

>>389008576
>"here's your donations from purchases in africa, paid in zimbabwian money wheelbarrows"

you guys are thinking way too hard on this. i still think destiny 2 giving out DLC for hurricane harvey is worse (just totally shallow PR), and that shit is free.

>>389007086


Do you have any fucking idea how quickly I would buy that

>>389008086
Because laws, you worthless retard. A company has to apply as a charity entity in certain states, others prohibit charity from giving anything back in exchange for donations and that's why this DLC doesn't apply. Beyond that, a company cannot simply give money to some random fuck without declaring it in their account books for tax purposes and shit. They more than likely already gave compensation but that and a charity drive are completely different.

>hurrrrrr why don't they just give family money?

I swear, your understanding of the world is that of a child's.

>>389008736
Nice to see you have no actual argument.

>>389008736
Are you actually a fucking retard or something? Zimbabwean fun bucks can still be converted into dollars

>>389008868
Honestly if they wanted to charge for it they should have given them money to an actual cancer charity.

>>389008868
>Beyond that, a company cannot simply give money to some random fuck without declaring it in their account books for tax purposes and shit
And there's something stopping them from doing this?

>>389008736
>What is all of Europe
>What is all of Asia

I mean, it's a nice gesture so good on them. But I still think their mtx policy is dumb and I'm not buying the game because of it.

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>>389005581
>monolith went from making fear to shitty open world meme games

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>>389006182
>Cryptic immortalized a community moderator by putting his in-game character into the tutorial as the newbie-helping hero

I sorta remember this.
Who was it? It was that Native American superhero right?

>>389008264
What would they be worried about, the internet?

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>>389007426

Yeah, WB are being fucking jews on a lot of shit about this game but this seems really great. I hope it sells well.

I don't plan to buy the game until GOTY because of the microtransaction, preorder DLC, etc. laden bullshit so I'll see if it still plays well without the loot box shit but if I were, I'd 100% purchase this just because it's a cool thing to do.

Plus, having Matt Dillahunty run in and smash fuckers for me sounds great.

>>389009015
The IRS if you live in the United States.

>>389009239
If it's on the books the IRS aren't gonna give a fuck, dumbass.

>>389009015
the fact you cant think of any reason this might be exploitable tells me youve never worked a job harder then flipping burgers

>>389008097
>DA JOOZ
Why are jews so paranoid that they won't even type out "jew" anymore?

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>>389009321
oh yeah good idea, messing with the irs is a goooood idea. not to mention anyone with half a fucking brain, if he knows the company donating to him isnt documenting it, could be blackmailed.
>thanks for the 100 grand. another 20 grand and i wont tell anybody : )

>>389009015
Not only costs but not meeting the requirements? Are you fucking stupid? What, you think any fucking company can apply to be a charity and siphon money into whatever bogus cause they want?

Status as a nonprofit, declaration of expenses, the type of your solicitation, how much money you expect to get; Even beyond the specifics of whatever event you are running, you might need a license that's rewarded only after a review by governmental committee. How long do you think that's going to take even if the IRS were not to outright laugh at the idea?

What a dumb child. Stop being a fucking NEET crying tortanic and learn a little about how the world works.

>>389009594
He said ON the books

>>389009624
Did you read what you wrote? It's a mess.

>>389009624
Who said anything about WB applying to be a charity? Are you fucking retarded?

>>389009669
oh, my bad, that was actually going to be the first thing i pointed out before misreading it. if its okay to donate with no consequence on the book, then no one would pay anyone wages, just donations and bypass the whole, social security tax. every boss would get rid of their wage and 5% bonus knowing they will get a "donation" the same size and skip 6.2 percent tax on social security. shit loads of documentation has to go into this

another possibility is by doing this official route, it lowers a tax of some sort, and might be why then can actually donate that much money to begin with. an outright donation might cost the business more so they could only donate 40$ to break even, who knows.

>>389010013
The whole argument on the other side is to take people out of context so they can argue a strawman. There is likely an issue with paying a family from the DLC purchases outside the US, they could have still used that to donate to a real charity if that was the DLC's goal.

>>389005735
After Arkham Origins, I pretty much skipped Arkham Knight knowing it was gonna be shit and wasn't wrong on that part.

>>389010048
Honestly they should have picked a cancer charity to donate to. Would have made things cleaner

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Can we just talk for a second about how scary brain tumors are

>>389005581
>Later people have noticed that purchases of this DLC made outside US won't be donated to the family and will go to WB's pocket

That's so scummy I fucking loathe these people.

>>389010250
My mom has one.

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>>389005581
>Warner Bros. profiting off dead developer
how dumb are you about how vidya works from a business sense?

Shit is a weirdly dumb idea i agree but the jewy aspect of it people are arguing is dumb as fuck to the non dumb and actually educated demographic that actually knows what they are talking about. Since if Warner Bros is making anything off it its like fucking pennies if anything at all.

Shit fucking hate the current climate of over reactionary cunts just actively seeking shit to get upset over as if it gives them a sort of sick pleasure to whine and get mad about shit that is either false or entirely overblown.

>>389010512
>Since if Warner Bros is making anything off it its like fucking pennies if anything at all.
Yeah apart from all those sales outside of the US
And only for a fucking month, and then it's full profits for WB

>>389010512
>Since if Warner Bros is making anything off it its like fucking pennies if anything at all.
So why not make it free then
Thats the nature of companies, if they can make another penny, they will go for it

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>>389010250
absolutely, for a few years that was my go to fetish when thinking dirty things before falling asleep. had a big affinity for the scenario being it basically puts you into concious coma, just cant move, talk or anything but can see and feel everything, and the people forced to take care of you start to resent you and take it out via sexual abuse, and you just gotta watch.

i moved onto physical trauma eventually tho because there would be too much sympathy for a young boy with brain cancer, had to start looking into "doing dangerous thing gets brain damage and costs care takers hundreds of thousands" route eventually

pretty fucking impossible to find material if your not into written stuff or audio

>>389010013
Are you? A company can't just give money to someone just like that. Fuck off I'm not going to explain it, look up "can a company gift money to an employee."

Doing it the way they are doing it is literally the easiest way.

>>389010284
as pointed out, because laws are different in different places? the alternative here might be "lol you guys cant buy the dlc" then?

>>389010593
which might be a licensing/charity rules issue outside of their control. shrug.

>>389010832
>which might be a licensing/charity rules issue outside of their control. shrug.
Nothing stopping them from donating sales outside the US to a legitimate brain cancer charity.

>>389010896
how do you know

>>389006182
Bioware also ran a memorial event in Mass Effect 3 multiplayer when the guy who played Zaeed died.

Blizzard has also put tributes to tons of deceased players into WoW, including letting a terminally ill kid design a quest and voice an NPC before he died.

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>>389008736
>paid in zimbabwian money wheelbarrows

>random one-hit kills
>guitar axe
I'd pay money to keep this guy out of my game, not to have him included.

>>389011143
Because companies like Blizzard have done it before.

>>389008097
So why don't they just donate a lump sum to the family if they care so much baka

>>389010896
>make your fundraiser into some fucking nightmare that has to keep track and declare every single penny from outside the US, susceptible to international taxation laws and has not one but TWO targets: one an individual family and the other a completey different organization with its own tax rules.

Yeah that sounds like a great idea.

>>389011581
Where?

>>389011686
Blizzard's Charity Pets

>>389011581
so your saying the terms and conditions, of not only the current countries but the countries at the time have changed, and that both charity donations are exactly the same

yeah im gonna need a citation on that one

>>389011686
Your right companies don't donate to charities at all its too complicated.

>>389009221
>this seems really great
>game has singleplayer microtransactions
>if you cheat in your own game instead you get banned even though you are playing by yourself

>>389011686
Oh would it have been too hard for the big poor corporation to be decent people? How fucking sad

>>389011797
Im talking specifically about using it to donate to a charity.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/16655152/coming-soon-adopt-a-pet-for-charity

What does Jim Sterling think about this?

>>389011873
>if you cheat in your own game instead you get banned even though you are playing by yourself
wat

>>389011741
>For every Argi pet purchased between December 3 and December 31, 100% of the adoption fee ($10 in the U.S.; pricing varies by region) will be donated in support of the American Red Cross to assist in Ebola relief efforts, helping enable the Red Cross to provide assistance to those in need.
...why does it say adoption fee, what is the adoption fee. where does it say that the adoption fee is the full 10$? why dosent it say the full 10$? what are the price variations in different regions?

cough

>>389011589
>>389011913
>>389011817
Because they can't. By law it would be a taxable exchange or bonuses for provided services that can't be defined as a gift (because of the dead guy's relationship to the company as an employee) and the same laws limit the amount that can be given away.

>>389011741
You do realize disaster relief is completely different than a charity for an individual right.

>>389012074
You do realize I was replying to use the money outside the US to go to an actual charity as per>>389010896

>>389012074
>You do realize disaster relief is completely different than a charity for an individual right.
These people don't realize that it costs money to submit DLC to marketplaces, how the fuck would they know the difference between two forms of charity?

>>389011913
>sorry employees, none of you will be getting paid time off this year because some random fuck deserves more then the people who make this business happen. yes, john, youll have to do double time to send your kid to college. its the right thing

>>389005581
Seriously though. Is that guy a mutant elf or an uruk?

>>389011998
I don't know, but whatever it is, I agree with it!

>>389012179
>Some DLC that nobody's going to buy
>Keeping the entire company afloat
Actually, with the way that the AAA industry balances its books, you might be onto something.

>>389012159
Except the argument is about using NONE of the money derived outside of the US(which they are trying to not make obvious to the consumer) which could be used for a charity if its a genuine tribute.

No, they're just using the game to memorialize him, as a form of a respec-
>it's DLC
jesus christ that's fucking disgusting

...whos profiting? the company the developer owned...and his family. id be fucking stoked that the people AND my family were STILL benefiting profitably from what i used to own beyond fucking death.

they coulda put him in and done NOTHING and immortalized him but they did it AND helped out his friends, fellow employees and family

>>389012345
then youd have to have two different charity events going on and different dlcs effectively.

>>389012389
There is no middle ground. They either put an in-game memorial to him and give his family nothing or they give his family something and become mega-Hitler.

>>389012138
...so? The entire process is different, what's so hard to understand?

>>389012491
It currently is already with different payment methods, One being charity and the other not

They are using the donation angle as a promotion of the DLC while make sure it isn't obvious that many purchases will in fact not towards this.

>>389012649
>while make sure it isn't obvious that many purchases will in fact not towards this.
It's in the T&Cs, they are not hiding anything the average consumer is just an ignorant dipshit.

>>389012389
So you'd be okay with Nintendo releasing an Iwata amiibo, and then trying to come across as "charitable" by using his family as a marketing tool for it?

So many of you fags arguing whether this is moral or not. I just wanna know what this fucker's species is.

>>389012707
They are obscuring the details to purposely take advantage of the death of their college.

>>389012893
How are they obscuring the details? If it's not disclosed anywhere then how is /v/ having a meltdown over it?

>>389012534
So they could if they wished have made it an actual tribute rather than a profit driven DLC thats uses someones death to promote it

>>389012513
Did they not pay the man a fair wage? Why do they need to transfer customer money to his family?

>>389012954
There is a difference between clearly explaining how the donation will work to the consumer and putting the explanation in tiny text when you were completely fine with describing everything else for it in a much clearer way

>>389013045
>Did they not pay the man a fair wage? Why do they need to transfer customer money to his family?
Let's see, a 43 year old man died of cancer... How ever could the loss of somebody so young to a disease that costs thousands to treat effect his family?

>>389013397
Again why do the customers foot the bill of a single family? Explain why this one family deserves charity from strangers?

>>389013554
They don't have to, they can decide to buy the DLC.

>>389013554
>foot the bill
Nobody is forcing you to buy the DLC.
>Explain why this one family deserves charity from strangers?
Because his colleagues cared enough about the guy to do this. I'm sorry you're so broken that you can't feel empathy anymore.

>>389012973
Anon call me crazy but I think the widow will appreciate the money more than some charity getting it. It's not like cancer research is underfunded either.

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>tom clancy died 15 years ago
>ubisoft continues to use his name
>clancy's family sees fuck-all profit from sales
Seems legit.

>>389013590
So where,s the goodwill? How can anyone think this is WB being good guys?

>>389005854
>>389005875
>>389005945
It's still a lot more money than the family had before, and they get it for doing literally nothing. Who fucking cares? The family would have had to give permission in the first place. God I hate you faggots

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>>389011153

>that quest in Wrath where you had to help the crusader out
>nothing you did worked, only thing you can do is give him a peaceful and painless death
>it was a allegory for cancer and that you can't stop it, only delay it because the crusader was based off a employee who passed away from it

>>389013680
I'm talking about the profit being made outside the US that the widow will not see

>>389013660
If they cared they'd pony up their own money

>>389013739
They are being contrarian

>>389013786
Man, anon, you are dense. We told you, you can't do that.

>b-but blizzard did it!

They did it for disaster relief through international organization. It's not the same. Trying to do that in this case will eat into the money the family gets by opening it up to more tax laws.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, GOY? DON'T YOU WANT TO FEED THIS POOR DEAD MAN'S FAMILY?! BUY THE DLC!! NOW!!

>>389013752
This
What the fuck is wrong with this place and people in general
This is why nice people are rare, you just always get shit no matter what

>>389013920
Which is why I was suggesting money made outside of the US could go to a Charity not the family. Therefore its still a tribute.

>>389013920
Think about what you're doing man, you're trying to explain charity taxation status to people who have never held a job.

>>389014009
Therefore, they didn't need to do literally any of this or give anything to the family
But I'm sure they're in tears over free money
God you people suck

>>389008097
Explain where the profits on it made outside of the US go then

>>389014009
Stop being stupid for a second. You can't just say "ok US money goes to this, international money goes to that."

>>389013682
I don't expect they're hurting for cash.

>>389005581
darkest timeline

>>389014185
Except that is just whats happening. International money is not going to the family.
The company could take the money and for every dollar raised pay a charity the same amount.

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>>389005581
>fat fuck dies of fat disease/s
>"immmortalised" (electricity-less gaming?) as lowly, grunt orc

In memoriam.

>>389005581
Pirating day one.

>>389014318
They could also not do any of this and give nothing to the family you mental retard
But they're still assholes for going out of their way to do something nice

>>389014318
For charity targets, anon. Oh forget it, you are too stupid. I take solace in the fact nothing you think or say will stop them from making a shitload of money.

>>389014425
I'm glad this charitable act has given you a way to excuse your inability to buy games on your parents' dime.

>>389005581
Why would you want DLC that occasionally plays the game for you? Is the grinding that bad?

>>389005945
>70% mate
But it's a 4$ DLC.

>>389014462
>You can't just give money to a international charity they have to make profits from overseas purchases!
>>389014456
Stop using that emotional argument. I am not attacking the money being used from the US purchases.

>>389014571
4 pounds, ~5 USD.

>>389005581
>fat tub of lard
Aren't elves supposed to be graceful?

>list the price of the DLC in pounds
>then list how much goes to the family in dollars
What kind of fuckery is this?

>>389014719
Ah, my mistake. They switched the currency they were talking about halfway through.

>>389013682
>clancy's family sees fuck-all profit from sales
How do you know that for certain?

>>389014851
>>389014882
Probably a britbong site listing the price they were given then copy+pasting the generic press release. It's not like there's anything else involved in vidya """journalism""".

>>389012068
I was going to give you a play by play and point out where you're wrong but that's more effort than you're worth. I'll just leave you with some advice.
First of all, read what you typed out and try and understand why you're being retarded. Secondly, don't pretend like you've even attended a law 101 lecture. It's pretentious as hell.

>>389011198
zimbabwians use freedom dollars

>>389015010
>britbong site telling a bunch of brits to buy the DLC to support this man's family when all sales in the UK go straight to WB
Yeah it's probably just oversight

>>389015107
Nigger, it's vidya journalism. Do you think they read the fine print? They get a press release, rearrange the words and maybe slip in a gag or two then post it under a clickbaity title.

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>faggots on /v/ actually complaining that the family is getting 3/4ths of the profit

>>389015543
But WB is making more than nothing off this, and as we all know companies are evil.

>>389015673
After all the other bullshit WB is pulling with this game, how can you deny they're fucking cunts?

well played

>>389015543
Anons are literally incapable of understanding this is the only way WB can give the family a few million dollars.

>>389015760
>After all the other bullshit WB is pulling with this game, how can you deny they're fucking cunts?
I have the willpower not to be suckered by loot boxes.

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>>389015673
just as well the family could be receiving nothing off this but, I'm sure /v/ would prefer that

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>>389015847
>this is the only way WB can give the family a few million dollars.

>>389015909
>I have no argument or knowledge of the topic so I'm going to pots an anime girl and no one can correct me

>>389015872
I'm not even buying the game, fucking moron. The fact that they're there at all is scummy as hell

>>389015970
Yes, how dare this company provide something that customers are evidently willing to pay for?

>>389005581
>profiting off
>3.50 of 3.99, or 87%, goes to the Forgey family
>the model cost time and money to make in the first place, hours of a 3D modeler/rigger's time, who on average is paid at least $25 an hour

Yeah, "profit." You don't even know how video games are made you nigger.

>>389005854
I wish I got paid 70% of every DLC purchase.
Fucks sake

>>389016028
Cool, I guess pay2win and on-disk DLC is all cool as well then? I mean if people are willing to pay for it then it's fine

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MY SON DIED OF BRAIN CANCER FROM WORKING ON YOUR SHITTY GAME AND YOU ONLY BRING ME A MEASLY 75%?!

>>389016089
>Cool, I guess pay2win
For optional bullshit?
>and on-disk DLC is all cool as well then
It's ok when Nintendo, Capcom etc. does it.

>>389016041
>every single sale outside of the US goes to WB
>not realizing the 3.99 is in fucking pounds, not dollars
>money going to the Forgey's only lasts a month
How many times is a shill going to come in here and ignore these things?

>>389016207
>It's ok when Nintendo, Capcom etc. does it.
But it's not. Any form of on-disk DLC is cancer

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>/v/ actually defending worst vidya publisher's shitty business practices while pretending to care about employee's family

>>389016314
>worst vidya publisher
This isn't a Metal Gear Survive thread.

>>389005854
With digital goods not costing stocking fees and such, they really should have given 100% of it.

>>389019000
But they have to pay for the hosting! That's expensive, you can't expect them to both virtue signal and also not at least break even

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Shadow of More Dollars, this game is just slime in vidya form, microtransactions, loot boxes in a singleplayer game, and now this new low

The most Jewish thing I've ever seen.

It's for his family, dumbass. WB is only getting 50cents.

>>389020784
WB shouldn't get anything dumbass

>>389020784
3.99 pounds isn't 3.99 dollars.
And I didn't realize it was only 50 cents outside of the US

>>389005581
So basically:

>how do we profit off this schmucks' death?
>Let's advertise a "charity" dlc, run a few ads in some online rags praising us for being so considerate and nice, the outpouring of money should earn us a pretty penny more than any regular dlc plus we earn the company brand some goodwill among eaters *ahem, consumers
>we'll let the family have 50% of the profits in the US for the first couple months, over the lifetime of the DLC worldwide we should take in about 98% of the profit overall
>and we ought to make a goddamn killing off this, people are suckers for sob stories

honestly this is one of the more transparent jewish tricks I've seen

>>389013682
They bought the right to use his name for video games anon. Probably for millions of dollars that the family are still enjoying to this day.

>>389007086
T O D D S G A M E would be GOTYAY on /v/ forever after. Just imagine the sex mods.

>>389020868
You do realize that there are costs associated with developing, advertising, and distributing? This is a very nice gesture here and something WB / Monolith had no obligation to do. You fags are even entitled about stuff that has nothing to do with you.

>>389005581
I am the first one thinking companies are greedy assholes but this seems a lovely tribute to the dead guy. Hell, 3/4 of the money even goes to the family.

>>389021276
Fuck off nigger, if it's a real charity you do it at a loss in half of cases

>>389013752
>they get it for doing literally nothing
Except losing a member of their family that worked on the game, you fucking cunt.

>>389008097
does warnerbros hire you through jidf or do they approach you directly?

>>389005945
Proceeds and profit have different meanings.

>>389021472
Its not a charity. It isn't claiming to be a charity. It's a one off event.

>>389021583
What? Would not running up a fund for those left behind raise the fucking dead? Its security that they aren't being forced to raise themselves.

WB is not pocketing 30%. Developing and distributing content is not free. There are artists, programmers, testers, etc. that had to work on this. And Sony / M$ get a cut of whatever is put on the store.

>>389016041
>the model cost time and money to make in the first place, hours of a 3D modeler/rigger's time, who on average is paid at least $25 an hour

You are over exaggerating the effort on this single piece of dlc and the cost shouldn't matter if they're honoring their dead employee

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>>389005581
I'm not actually against the idea of this if the family thinks it's alright, but holy shit.
>your posthumous tribute character is a chubby faggot wielding an electric guitar in a lord of the rings game
That is one fucking shitty epitaph. It's no wonder he checked out, with a family that would do that to him.

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>>389022253
It's how he looked.

>>389022404
I don't care how he looked in real life. Give the man some dignity in his grave for fuck's sake, and at least give him an actual weapon rather than a jack black memehandle.

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could they just not bother with funeral expenses instead donating shit ton of money for dead employee family for no reason?

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>>389005581
What level of cuckoldry are we at when people are literally defending video game publisher's profiting off developer's death with arguments that are based on "they are business that needs to make profit so it's ok".

>>389022045
No, they're pocketing the full $5 of every purchase made inside 7 of the 50 U.S states as well as every purchase made worldwide.

It's incredibly dishonest.

>>389005581
even in death he still serves

>>389022045
>WB is not pocketing 30%. Developing and distributing content is not free.
Then WB should foot the bill for the rest of it, then they would do their part instead of lazily using this as a marketing stunt.
And also ALL the money goes to them if you're outside the US and they hide this information in the smallest print possible.
Fuck you, corporate shill.

>>389023562
It's become a cultural sickness in the US.

Corporations are worth more than people.

>>389023592
Who cares about the 7 states they aren't doing it for? And there is probably a perfectly reasonable explanation for that. It's not like those states contain a significant portion of their consumers or anything.

It makes plenty of sense that they're keeping the profits from international sales. The profits will be less per unit, as there are more resources they have to expend, and they might not even be the publisher. Also, the story is likely to be less relevant to international audiences.

Also we shouldn't ignore the fact that, while this is being billed as a "charity," in a way this is an agreement between WB and the family, where the man's likeness is used in exchange for royalties. And I don't want to sound insensitive, but it's not as if WB had a personal relationship with the guy. This is something Monolith wanted to do because he was THEIR co-worker / friend.

>>389025396
>Also, the story is likely to be less relevant to international audiences.
OPs image is literally from a UK site. They're fucking putting these articles out there internationally. It's an extremely obvious ploy

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So people are ignoring the single player micro transactions now huh?

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You people do realize 30% is what steam takes from every digital sale and same probably goes for xbone or ps4 ig not more than 30%.

So technically the family gets all the profits.

>>389025679
No, people are just focusing on this new Jewish tactic right now. It's not forgotten.

>>389025780
It's weird how you shills are using this to shill against Jews even though WB Games, Warner Bros, Time Warner, and AT&T have non-Jewish owners. Almost like you're trying to cover something up.

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>>389025780
Just making sure.

>>389025869
You don't have to be Jewish to utilize Jewish tactics

>>389005713
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>389025679
People tolerate paid online now
People Tolerate DLC now
With time, the bar goes lower and lower and who knows where it will be next

>>389012243
sheep

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>>389005795
Goy!

>>389007321
You mean the same as every charity ever?

All charities are bullshit, they all only give a % of what you give to the actual causes.

Hell even Bono did this with his U2 charity work, most of the money went to his family.

>>389021583
This might actually be the stupidest thing ive ever read on this site.

work you to death paying you peanuts
work your corpse even harder for extra profit

what an industry

>>389005854
I hate jews as much as the next guy, but the 30% are also transaction costs.

>>389005581
I wouldn't be opposed to IP bans for people who buy this game

>>389007086
Honestly, it'd a nice homage to him. Even better if the cut was 30% and it'd be sent to mod his tomb into a megadungeon full of 3 meters statues of him who would say "buy my games" for all eternity.

what race exactly is forthog supposed to be a member of?

>>389028414
Elf, I assume

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>>389028484

>>389028543
He's got pointy ears, gotta be an elf

>>389028290
I've already preordered.

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>>389028580
wow here's another image of an elf

>>389028610
Orcs literally are elves in Tolkien lore

>>389028649
yes but they dont call them elves you fucking moron
just because your thumbs are fingers doesnt mean you call all your fingers thumbs, now does it?

>>389028713
Perhaps I should have made myself more clear.
He's clearly not an orc. Therefore, he has to be an elf.

>>389028760
unless they perverted the lore more than they already have to make their dead producer a fat, bald elf that uses a fucking lute-axe i refuse to believe its an elf unless specifically stated

>>389028857
Shelob turns into a sexy chick. The lore is fucked in these games, accept it

>>389007426
>using it as DLC
>of which they get a cut or all of it in most countries
This isn't the right approach, you don't fall for Jewish tricks

someone post a picture of that dwemer from morrowind because thats exactly who forthog looks like

>>389025869
you do realize that most people that use phrases like "being a jew", "jewy" etc. are just saying that publisher are money greedy. Except for alt righters no one believes that jews are the only people leading the elite.

>>389010512
$4 times 1 million is still 4 million dollars

>>389012491
DLC in the burger towns donating is $4 for first month
Regular price is $0.50, if I can't pay $3.50 to the family then I ain't paying it to them