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The Chinese gaming industry seem to make games for gamers, while the western gaming industry seems obsessed with unsuccessfully "converting" people that don't p
by RobotToaster 2y ago
The Chinese gaming industry seem to make games for gamers, while the western gaming industry seems obsessed with unsuccessfully "converting" people that don't play games, as if they are some kind of untapped market.
- kobalsky 2y agoWell King and Blizzard are in Activision, and at least some years ago in their balance sheets we saw that King has a similar operating income as Blizzard. Those silly mobile games rake in some cash.
- Ekaros 2y agoOne can also ask how Tencent and NetEase is buying up stakes in everyone if they were not making money. There cannot be that much free money from CCP...
- bitcharmer 2y agoThe western studios are focusing on making games for "modern audiences" which amounts to around a hundred people. I kid you not. https://steamdb.info/app/721180/charts/ https://steamdb.info/app/721180/charts/
- Ekaros 2y agoWhat first-party(Sony) title for 150 million buys: https://steamdb.info/app/2443720/charts/ https://steamdb.info/app/2443720/charts/
- upon_drumhead 2y agoValve just announced that games existence a few days ago and it's still deep in development. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make based upon its count of early play-testers?
- emidioxyz 2y agoI think you're mixing games up? The Valve game is called Deadlock and currently has 76,000 people playing it.
- bitcharmer 2y agoWhich game are you referring to? Both that I mentioned are fully released
- cholantesh 2y agoThe gaming industry, regardless of where it's headquartered, is actually focused on aggressive, shameless monetization, and the Chinese segment were pioneers in this.