Okay riddle me this why do big companies save on product but increase spending on marketing and admin?
I was reading though Blizzard-Activision financial statement and saw how they increased spending on both sales and marketing and admin by more than twice what they increased spending on product development.
This is coming Ib the wake of the flop on their newesr CoD game. The same thing is happening for Creative assenbly and the total war franchise. Way to much time spend on milking the product and not enough on making a good product.
It seem to be something that mostly happens when the companies think they cant grow anymore. They live on past glory while they slowly tank the product.
However this really seems like a bad strategy. We have seen that with games like BG3, but it also seem to be the goals with stratgies like content marketing.
Look no further than Patron and Beats. Also any product that you can only do so much product development, like Supreme or Luxury eyeglasses, or luxury anything really. At some point, people won’t pay more for better quality but they will for vanity, which is the main point of marketing outside of step 1 awareness.