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It's really interesting to see how out of touch with reality these folks are, really an eye opening article.

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[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It’s very simple, really. The meteoric rise of the gaming industry is unparalleled in entertainment so of course it quickly attracted an entourage of greedy finance people with dollar bills in their eyes who wouldn‘t even think of touching a controller or even watch a game trailer. They‘re in it for the money and think in numbers and spreadsheets. That‘s the root of many problems plaguing AAA studios today.

You would think a game journalist would at least have heard of Luna though. Even when it was dead on arrival.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

the problem is, they see the market like its a brand recognition situation, which pc gamers it isnt exactly that. PC gamers are very incentive based buyers and will opt for something else if the incentive is "worth it" for them. the problem is, most platforms are really terrible at generating this incentive for consumers. GOG does with drm. free content, and to a lesser extent, epic does it with free games and tight unreal integration.

I'll give an example that wont happen because someone looking at the numbers wont let it happen. Amazon for example could easily develop a propietary media reader, and invest in a physical media printing line, and basically become the defacto publisher for physical pc releases if they wanted to, giving PC players a HUGE incentive on buying on their platform (enabling the buying, selling, and trading of used games on pc), and could easoly also be the platform that buy/sells used copies. we all just know they wont because they dont want any of the risk and cost associated on doing so.

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch.

i am amazed at how they were able to connect the dots with this one. naturally, like twitch is instantly a game store.

or am i missing a feature they had to bridge a gap here?

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