How are all these sims financially viable?

[dan0812]

These games don't seem to have huge numbers of players and the price for them is pretty low as most people wait for Steam sales.

How are these studios which must have at least 8-10 staff able to keep pumping out updates and new content for years? Obviously there's bank loans, tie-ins with manufacturers and DLC but I don't see how the numbers could add up over the long term?

 

[StefanoCasillo]

The number of players is orders of magnitude lower than the number of paying owners.. and it's the latter that matters when it comes to calculate profitability.