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Agreed, but revenue is the clearest indicator of consumer interest. As long as the revenue is growing, there's no real risk that companies would stop making gam
by falcor84 7y ago
Agreed, but revenue is the clearest indicator of consumer interest. As long as the revenue is growing, there's no real risk that companies would stop making games.
- bogwog 7y agoUnless, as is probably the case here, most of that revenue comes from preying on people with gambling addiction through lootboxes, psychological manipulation, peer pressure, etc. When that stuff gets banned, revenue will tank and any developer completely reliant on that will be in big trouble.
- ryandrake 7y agoIs it really inevitable that these things will one day be banned? If anything the USA is moving more and more toward liberalizing gambling. Casinos and card rooms are no longer limited to just Atlantic City and Vegas, online poker is slowly marching toward legalization state-by-state. Sports betting is opening up. If anything, I see video games and casino gambling industries slowly merging over the next ten years or so, borrowing profitable ideas from each other and overlapping their audiences.