r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PokeRestock • 2d ago

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u/MurkyWay 2d ago

Running your game at a loss seems like a bad idea

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u/notrandomatall 2d ago

And that’s just the demo! Imagine the losses they can achieve with the full game! To the moon!

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u/StinkButt9001 2d ago

The demo is free and the full game is paid.

So presumably the price of the game would offset the losses.

This seems like calculated advertising more than anything

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u/oh-shazbot 1d ago edited 1d ago

So presumably the price of the game would offset the losses.

the devs said they are going to be pricing this AI token usage into the final tag price. not totally sure how that will work unless the plan on charge $5,000 per copy. the entire games model is fucking dumb to use paid usage AI. they could easily switch over to a local, free LLM and solve the issue. but then again, open source models are not even close to frontier models. so, overall the idea of making the game rely on token usage is fucking stupid to begin with and totally unsustainable.