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: That argument DOES NOT apply to digital-only items like a map. Replication
: cost is extremely small and all the cost is the upfront development work.
: Their costs are defrayed over thousands of purchases. Once that is paid
: for, then any extra sales are basically pure profit.
: People obviously feel that the expected sales should more than sufficiently
: cover MS's costs and that their profit margins are set too high - they're
: being greedy.
: Since 343i or MS are never going to release their financials, people have no
: evidence to the contrary.
That's not how sensible hypotheses work--the onus is on the "MS is shafting me" people to prove how this is so in the first place.
We don't know how much DLC they sell or how much costs went into development. Speculating on absolutely no info is Internet-level stupid.