It Makes No Sense That Game Studios Use High Costs As An Excuse To Raise Prices While Wasting Budget

Game studios: Game development costs are high so we have no choice but to increase the game prices and add microtransactions
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This is a sarcastic two-panel meme criticizing AAA video game studios. The top text first presents the common public statement from game studios: they claim development costs are extremely high, so they are forced to raise retail game prices and add paid microtransactions to games. The lower half of the meme contrasts this: the left panel shows a real motion capture actor in a studio wearing an elaborate, large frame rig attached to his motion capture suit, built to capture movement for a long-limbed in-game creature. The right panel shows the final in-game render of that creature, which is implied to only appear for a very short, insignificant sequence in the finished game. The joke implies studios waste large amounts of budget on unnecessary, overcomplicated production choices, making their claims of needing to raise prices for consumers disingenuous.

This meme originates from the Meme subreddit on Reddit, distributed via RSS. It taps into widespread gamer frustration over rising game prices and the prevalence of predatory microtransactions in modern AAA games, paired with perceptions that game studios frequently waste budget on low-impact, overproduced elements instead of optimizing costs reasonably.