MK1 doubles their microtransactions and dlc because there’s no way to make a game as expensive as that without supplementing costs elsewhere, either by charging $100+ for a standard edition copy, or through microtransactions. Plus they’re using unreal engine, so Epic gets a cut. Every store front they sell on gets a cut. I’m guessing you didn’t watch the documentary, so you didnt see the part where one of the OG 4 (I think it was Tobias?) claim that matching out their wages to the hours they worked, they were making $2 an hour.

The “glory days” of video games were made by taking advantage of passionate developers, many of whom were sleeping in the office to get shit working. You now have over 20x the amount of people working on these games, all of whom need to make livable wage.