It's a bit like saying a shop is 'greedy' for selling you a box of 6 different flavoured cupcakes because they already made 2 other flavoured cupcakes that they will sell for a bit extra if you find 6 aren't enough to give you want you wanted. Annoying if your favourite flavour wasn't in the original assortment but not the shops problem!
It's not like that at all, because again,
again, you're assuming I'm equating "greedy" with "bad".
Frontier is a PLC, a public company, which means they sell shares publicly. To be a director in the UK you need I think 50,000 pounds, which is a considerable amount of money (it's been a while since I looked into this). In order to invest that 50,000 into something, you need two things; the desire to turn that 50,000 into more (greed) and the confidence that what you're investing in will succeed (to make you more money). Frontier had to convince its shareholders that
Planet Zoo would make them a lot of money, otherwise they wouldn't agree to pour funds into it in the first place. This game, like every game, like every product, like every cupcake at every bakery, is built on greed, and would not exist without greed.
Once more, in case the people in the back missed it, I'm not saying this is a bad thing. It just is what it is, it's currently the way we get things produced that we want to consume. It's also the whole reason there's such a thing as price inflation - I used to work for a retailer that spent $1.35 on the homebrand kettles they sold for $45. They could have charged $15 dollars and still made a major profit, but that is why they had 'sales' and reduced the price in order to make people think they were getting a better deal when in fact they were still paying well over 200% what the company did.
That is undeniably greedy, but it's also the only way the business can run, because if they don't do that, they don't earn a profit, if they don't earn a profit, they can't pay their shareholders for their investment, and if they can't pay their shareholders, the business collapses and they're not making anymore kettles.
Frontier is the same. Just because the game is about cute animals and everyone is having fun with it doesn't mean it's any different to the aforementioned kettle. This isn't a nice little family-run business we're talking about, that needs the support of the local community to go up against the big bad MegaMart down the road. I wouldn't say it's the big bad MegaMart either, but it's definitely somewhere in the middle.
You're all looking at me using the word 'greed' like I'm spitting on someone's grave, when in fact it's just a word I'm using to describe something very common, without which we wouldn't have
Planet Zoo in the first place. Thing is, I've already paid for the game, and already paid for the Arctic Pack and the Deluxe Edition, so I've already played my role in all of this and I'm fine with that. I wanted to play the game, so I gave my money to the greedy company who made it, so they could pass on part of that to their greedy shareholders, who would then greenlight further additions being made to the game.
I'm not asking them to give me anything for free. I don't expect or want that.
