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Good. Video games are being ruined by shareholders demanding returns over good games. The less public investment there is, the better.
by chowells 8mo ago
Good. Video games are being ruined by shareholders demanding returns over good games. The less public investment there is, the better.
- Apocryphon 8mo agoJust which prominent publishers remain private, anyway? Besides Valve.
- khuey 8mo agoEpic.
- georgeecollins 8mo agoEA!
- doctorpangloss 8mo agoHaha, yes, ruining games by that hated public video game studio, Nintendo
- mpyne 8mo agoYeah I don't even agree with the conceit that public investment is causing companies to make bad games. You don't make 'good returns' as a video game company with bad video games, I don't care how fancy your financial engineering is. And private investors care about returns just as much as public investors do. If anything a lot of this is on gamers for continuing to buy shitty games that they complained even at the time were shitty games. If they'd stopped buying games the lousy companies would have folded, their investors would have eaten a loss, and the game companies that remained would care more about the investors who'd shown more of a long-term focus.
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