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judging a gaming company by quarter?? ok, zynga is not exactly a traditional gaming company, but can you even imagine if we judged blizzard or bioware (when the
by analyst74 15y ago
judging a gaming company by quarter?? ok, zynga is not exactly a traditional gaming company, but can you even imagine if we judged blizzard or bioware (when they were independant) by quaterly figures?
- Impossible 15y agoPublicly traded game companies are judged by quarterly figures... In the case of Blizzard and Bioware, Activision and EA stock are hugely affected by their revenues. Its not right, and it leads to games being shipped too early to attempt to improve quarterly revenues (I worked on a THQ project where this happened), but it happens all the time.
- palish 15y agoThere's no reason we should tolerate that. (I'm a gamedev, not a player.)
- ido 15y agoWhat can you do about it?
- jarek 15y agoNot go public. But good luck convincing C-suite of that.
- palish 15y agoNothing. The world is as it is. I've come to accept that. But -- here's the thing -- your moral/ethical compass shouldn't be influenced on account of the world. Think back through history, and at every point, people have been essentially crazy. So the only thing we can do is to have the confidence to know "what's good", and then strive to make our personal lives reflect that. (Without becoming judgmental of others. </irony>) If you're asking what I'm going to do about it, well... I'm just like everyone else. I train myself for years in every aspect of game development, am building an entire multiplayer game from start to finish without relying on anything except my creativity and capabilities, and will be done around age 39. :) Then I'll use the proceeds to form a company and hire a few likeminded people.
- khafra 15y agoSet up a gamified alternative to the stock market with incentives pertaining to long-term growth?