Businesses don't pay?

[kellerkarl501]

I understand the point of buying the businesses is to increase your weekly deposit but it doesn't really make sense to pay that much and not receive a cut of the business profits or something.

[Cooperal]

Probably a balance > realism thing. It also wouldn't be realistic to go from nothing to owning all of these places after a few weeks of selling on the streets.

I wouldn't mind if they did this for the sake of rewarding the player with a steady baseline income, but they would both need to make later progression items more expensive and add more stuff to buy in general. But it is an early access game and it would be criminal if this game never gets workshop support.

[Wantoomany]

You are buying the business to launder money, not to make a profit. Just like your weekly balance, if you make too much money with your businesses It looks suspicious and will draw attention. Any profit your business makes only reduces the amount of clean money you can safely launder.

In other words if a business can safely claim income of $2000 a day. and $1000 of that is actual legit profit, you just cut the amount of dirty cash you can launder in half. You are selling drugs, that is your business.

[Lezard]

if they added in income from business, they should also add operating expenses, taxes. not really fun, or part of the game.

[a-bullet]

consider the profit of the business being used to grant you 1:1 cashback from laundering (ignoring taxes) and possibly bribing workers to not snitch

[Cobretti]

Originally posted by Lezard:

if they added in income from business, they should also add operating expenses, taxes. not really fun, or part of the game.

OP said he wants a cut of the profits (after expenses), not the income but I agree with you, it's an unnecessary addition and for what? a few hundred dollars a day at best, the laundry would barely break even which is the whole point of having that sort of business in the game, it's a business that serves no real financial purpose except to wash illegal money through it.

[This PC]

I was surprised as well but it would be horribly unbalanced if they gave cash/day, and people would complain like "I have nothing else to do, I can just leave the game running and amass cash".

Doesn't make like... Literary sense, it makes no sense that businesses you buy give you no money, but it makes a lot of sense gameplay wise, and ultimately, this is a game, not a story.

Laundering is extremely powerful, especially for solo players. :P