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ITT I learn that oligarch gabe nawel is the elon musk of gamers

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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 93 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All these concern trolling articles about Valve's "monopoly". We never get this shit about Youtube, Windows, local ISPs and other utilities, etc. Super subtle, guys.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The entire AAA video game industry right now is basically freaking out, panicking and financially imploding right now, after at least a solid decade of mainly figuring out how to waste an enormous amount of money...

While all trying to be the next big live service game.

A live service game isn't so much a game as it is a platform itself, a cash shop for in game content, a social media platform in itself.

(See Roblox for an extremely problematic but successful version of pulling this off)

These people all failed miserably at this, such that Ubisoft imploded, EA got bought out by Saudi Blood Money, Unity itself is imploding as an organization, MSFT switched its gaming division into pure wealth extraction mode before they shut it down in ~5 years and just act as IP liscensing overlords... etc.

They all tried to establish vertically integrated businesses, and despise that they can't come close to matching Valve, the most competent horizontally built business in the entire industry.

And yes, the 'video game industry' includes nearly all 'video game journalists'.

These people are with few exceptions, allergic to doing any actual investigative journalism, they're mostly just paid to manipulate the flow of discourse around video games, as a form of marketing.