yeah I dunno, I honestly don't see that as a valid excuse in this case. if I just sold 3000 battle passes at $25 a pop, that's like 75k just dropped in their lap. you better believe any studio or team I've ever worked with would have called an emergency meeting immediately to see what we could deprioritize for a few days to make sure this becomes an ongoing revenue stream. by not being proactive about this, I can't help but wonder how much money they lost.

the 3000 is just a rough guess based on numbers I pulled out of my bum, estimating 4000 DAU and 75% buy-in. but hell even if it was 1000 presales that's 25k. you set that up monthly and that's 300k. and if my 75k number is actually right, that's 900k. either one is more than enough to hire someone with even the tiniest bit of games industry experience full time for a year and still pull a hefty profit.