As much as I love seeing these people fall the games industry must really be on a knife edge if they're backpedalling this hard. It will be very interesting to see if any other western companies follow suit because they've had no problem openly telling gamers to fuck off and make fun of them on their own official pages so far.
Fun fact, I did some autism on the finances of companies like Ubisoft and EA. I know most people will likely know this but there's quite a ridiculous amount of evidence showing venture capital firms like Blackrock have invested in them which is likely what's been keeping them popped up for so long. At the end of the day though, these guys are out to make money and if they can't hit any targets in terms of sales especially they're going to get the axe. I have to wonder as well with ESG and DEI money there are in fact financial targets to hit among other things not just hiring practices so that's why they're starting to panic hard about even normies getting bored with their shit. This is all just the stuff that they'll openly report too.
There's only so much that scamming whales through their live service nonsense and using bot players to bump up numbers on their F2P games can do, losing the bulk of their playerbase is going to hit hard.
On that note, if you haven't take a look at the mess the Escape from Tarkov devs got themselves into over the last couple days. They're either stupid or broke or (likely) both.
I simply don't understand how it's possible to piss away that much money but then again aside from maybe a few nice things for myself for fun I don't think I'd be able to piss away that amount of money in the first place. You bring up Escape from Tarkov and yes that's another example, those guys sold a lot of units over time and I mean a lot yet every time these devs shoot themselves in the foot the second they get successful.
People were mentioning Notch as the correct way to handle wealth and yeah it makes you think considering how he's doing absolutely fine and he could probably re-enter the market any time he likes if he really wanted to.
As much as I love seeing these people fall the games industry must really be on a knife edge if they're backpedalling this hard. It will be very interesting to see if any other western companies follow suit because they've had no problem openly telling gamers to fuck off and make fun of them on their own official pages so far.
Fun fact, I did some autism on the finances of companies like Ubisoft and EA. I know most people will likely know this but there's quite a ridiculous amount of evidence showing venture capital firms like Blackrock have invested in them which is likely what's been keeping them popped up for so long. At the end of the day though, these guys are out to make money and if they can't hit any targets in terms of sales especially they're going to get the axe. I have to wonder as well with ESG and DEI money there are in fact financial targets to hit among other things not just hiring practices so that's why they're starting to panic hard about even normies getting bored with their shit. This is all just the stuff that they'll openly report too.
There's only so much that scamming whales through their live service nonsense and using bot players to bump up numbers on their F2P games can do, losing the bulk of their playerbase is going to hit hard.
On that note, if you haven't take a look at the mess the Escape from Tarkov devs got themselves into over the last couple days. They're either stupid or broke or (likely) both.
I simply don't understand how it's possible to piss away that much money but then again aside from maybe a few nice things for myself for fun I don't think I'd be able to piss away that amount of money in the first place. You bring up Escape from Tarkov and yes that's another example, those guys sold a lot of units over time and I mean a lot yet every time these devs shoot themselves in the foot the second they get successful.
People were mentioning Notch as the correct way to handle wealth and yeah it makes you think considering how he's doing absolutely fine and he could probably re-enter the market any time he likes if he really wanted to.