"muzickmage;c-17898940" wrote:
Basically, my point is... just how small is the budget that they can't afford to add better things in their packs?
It's never as simple as that, and it's never as tidy as the logistics you are presenting, the concept of profit especially is very fluid. It's a free market. But it also not only the issue of available budget, but also what is done with it and how well the project was designed withing the specific budget, how well the project manager worked with the team, how smooth the production went, were they delays or not, was there issues that forced to cut corners in the end? It's complex and we can't say if it's one thing or another because we are not part of the production process. Maybe EA is a money grabbing beast, maybe they decided to try out new things, maybe what a group (big or small) of people see as failure or success is not from the company perspective. Maybe it's all of it, maybe it's none. Lot's of maybe, lot's of time spend on typing in here.