It was to make a statement about knowledge basis, which we don’t have.
It’s 99,9% likely, but do you know it happens? Have you seen the bank transfers and asked every individual?
No?
So you don’t know.
Which is to put it into relativity what a knowledge base is. Which was needed seemingly as you’re arguing the whole time in this thread based on a damn nothing-burger. Just for argument’s sake.
We also don’t know what exactly Krafton did or did not… and there it becomes far far more ambigious in terms of actions.
We have absolutely no damn clue what exactly the financial aspect of the contract between EHG and Krafton entails.
Do they have targeted goals or they loose autonomy?
Have the gotten a credit?
Is Krafton outright paying the PS5 port?
Has EHG or Krafton come up with that even?
Is there a limit on when EHG needs to become profitable time-wise? Quarterly seen.
We got no damn clue. But seemingly that’s a novel concept here that you don’t throw possibilities under the bus even if you think that others are more likely.
EHG could theoretically be entirely ‘bailed out’ with completely free reign and Krafton just watching and thinking ‘it goes all well anyway’ or EHG could already be ‘lost with guarantee’ and Krafton just waiting to take over the reigns personally and then follow all the legal gray-areas to milk it dry to the last cent and player. And we got no clue where exactly on that spectrum we sit.
I don’t know that you actually exist. I’ve not seen you, nor checked your dna to make sure you’re not a lizard person. I’ve not done that to every other person on the planet so there’s a non-zero chance that I am the only human. Or maybe I’ve gone full Truman Show. I’ve not personally done the science to prove that the earth is a globe, have you? No? So you accept that the ISS could be an inflatable balloon or whatever else it is that space deniers believe.
Do you see how ridiculous that kind of “logic” or “principle” is?
We don’t, as I’ve said many times, but to an extent, it doesn’t matter.
And here we get back to the tin-foil-hattery. Some possibilities make no practical difference, it doesn’t matter if Krafton put in a line that requires Mike to stream wearing a cyberpunk-inspired tutu every third Friday when the office temperature in Krafton HQ drops below 19.385 degrees but not below 19.179 degrees. You not having professional experience of these kinds of things (acquisitions) doesn’t mean that whatever you can think up has any relevance.
And yes, that’s the level that your “well maaaaayyyybbbbeeeeeee they aren’t paying their employees, we just don’t know” is at.
To be fair… I would find it very entertaining to see that happen.
They actually do though, many of the examples do.
They’re what anyone knowing about business deals in any form can imagine to exist… hence it’s a portion of trust and reliability of the product.
Which is the important thing to differentiate between a SP/MP game and a live-service game. You buy into a SP/MP game for the ‘moment’ so to speak. The snapshot of what it is at that moment is what you buy.
But with live-service games you have more insecurity related to the product, you buy into the future of it as well, your product you want to buy might be gone soon basically. And that lowers the value of it substantially.
The updates which are supposed to improve it are what make up for this insecurity for the customer. The issue is how likely it is to be realized.
And that’s worthwhile hence to point out.
This is not the disagreement you seem to think it is. In English “some” is a very ill-defined qualifier. So for you to disagree with my assertion that “some possibilities make no practical difference” means that you think that all possibilities make meaningful differences, including the bonkers ones (the aforementioned one about Mike streaming in a tutu) and trivially different ones.
Then there’s the argument about whether a putative difference makes a difference for us as players versus the employees & I’d argue that how much direct control Krafton has fits into this bucket.
Yeah, but I’m not sure you know much about this kind of “business deal” & as I said before, just because you can fever-dream a scenario up doesn’t make it plausible let alone likely (ie, “but maybe EHG aren’t paying their employees”).
Or you could just not make them. That’s an option too, otherwise you’re opening yourself up to people writing off more of what you say as hyperbolic bollocks.
Everytime they update their games, again, the whole modding community groans.