made Blizzard more money 
than all of Starcraft 2 
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At this point I'm done hoping for MTX regulations and am just hoping the institutional rot and lack of quality releases leads to another industry crash
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At this point I'm sure the problem is the consumers not the companies
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Agreed. What I'm hoping for is that a couple of games are so addictive they just eat the industry alive. Bungie will have Destiny, Rockstar will have GTA, and everyone else just goes out of business because they can't stop making dog shit and/or inferior attempts at GTA or destiny.
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I hate destiny so fricking
much. It should've been borderlands not destiny frick destiny
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Blame gearbox for that one
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No wonder everyone on Pandora was gay.
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BORDERLANDS SHOULD'VE BEEN WHAT FALLOUT
76 IS NOW AHHHHHHH
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GTA 6 is going to be a watershed moment for the industry. A 2 billion dollar game (in just dev costs) on the heels of one that made 8 billion in revenue, I don't know what's going to happen but things are never going to be the same.
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2 billion
that's like 2000 million
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Online content is in strange wild wild west situation.
Stuff like marketing used to have regulation. But once Internet became thing. Its free for all.
Gambling is free for all becouse internet.
Gaming companies can do what ever they want.
Even porn and prostitution is in free for all.
I fully expect regulator hammer coming down on digital content hard.
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Yea and I like how people like Joe Rogan have their audience convinced the podcast format is superior and you dont have to sit through commercials so everyone started a podcast.
You still have to listen to their ad reads plus whatever ads play through Youtube (if u are r-slurred and dont use adblock/premium) And they shill nonsense that wouldnt even be allowed on TV programming because its so fraudulent.
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Oh no I have to listen to a 30 second ad read every 30 minutes, podcasts are so much worse than TV.
Just click the skip ahead button lmao.
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Even content on podcasts and youtube is intersting.
Considering how strict tv is. TV still beep swear words in lot of western countries.
There is whole age rating thing.
Even radio is regulated.
But otherside fence you can do guides how to shoot heroin with druken sailor.
Make podcasts how substance abuse is based and everyone should do it.
In rare cases where real world gets concerned about content. Like tate brothers. Regulators are unabel to do anything.
And same time people get fired in US becouse frick got said in air.
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It won't happen btw, unless too many voters suddenly get r-slurred. They're such an ungrateful pack of losers.
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As long as they aren't incel rightoids people ain't gonna do shit
They should be framed for rightoidism or something
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It seems imminent.
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It isn't going to crash, addicts need to consoom and spend their bux on shiney r-slur pixels for absurd prices.
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Pendulumstrags get the rope.
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The horse became a meme for a month. Pugs wouldnt even let you in unless you had one lol.
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Blizzstrag:
Also Blizstrags:
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Did you take part in this memery
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No i was better than everyone else and if i got declined from a pug id spam ljnk my rank 1 titles and top 10 world logs and mock them in general chat
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rip /spit
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I don't get it, why didn't they put more micro transactions in StarCraft? If the IP was worth it they could have kept it going and made it profitable in a similar way.
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Probably limited because it's a competitive RTS. Changing unit models or buying new units kind of fricks it up. They'd do it if they thought they'd profit of course, but at the time they were trying hard to keep it relevant as a an E-sport.
Or maybe they could've found a way and just fumbled the bag.
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They have microtransactions but as you point out they're just more limited in what they can do. You do have to pay for the coop commanders (beyond a couple free ones) so there's that, and I think you can pay to change your voice lines, but that's just for you not your opponent.
It's also just not a popular genre anymore. I don't think zoomers are capable of really playing it.
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RTS games are fricking boring
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Yeah they're fast paced but not enough for the meth addled mind of the average zoomer.
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No they're actually
too fast for nuzoomers (not us older zoomers
) but also a big thing in modern 
gaming 
is that kids want to be able to leave 
losing 
games 
immediately and without punishment, which is part of why battle 
royales have replaced the "slower" versions even of the same exact games 
like call is duty
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SC had that, at least. If you didn't like your odds, you could just gg and surrender.
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True, but because it's a 1v1, by gging out you're losing
In battle
royales, you don't lose-you just don't win
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They have special logos and avatars to buy in SC2. And let's be real t, that WoW horse probably made more than 90% of the gaming industry
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Do want? Make a shitty skin for the units that most people don't see cause the nature of the game.
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Btw this dude is a sperg/loon who makes shit games and complains about piracy 24/7
He snitched to the ceo of some streaming service that someone was streaming a movie, literally had an on-steam meltdown about it
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Based. Snitching on leech streamers is a god given right
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On one hand that sucks.
On the other hand the conclusion of that saga was shit.
Fricking phoenix Kerrigan.
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It's okay guys, Stormgate will save us
Please ignore its My_First_Unreal.project aesthetic 
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FIFA releases the same game every year and they make over a billion by doing so yearly. G*mers are fricked in the head.
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How would some random wagie know? I don't think they'd keep their precise sales numbers for every item in the fridge next to the breast milk.
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have u ever worked for a large company?
sales numbers like these are pretty often published internally
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I have no doubt the 15 dollar horse had a spectacular ROI but I doubt it brought it more revenue than Wings of Liberty but I also can't be arsed to look up SC2 and WoW revenue numbers so
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neet or zoomer?
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Went straight into business for myself
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what field? seems like a shit field if u can start without any prior exp
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Just lie on your resume
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but ur not employed??
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You're usually working directly for globocorps or various middle-men service providers, both of them will demand resumes and x years of experience.
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Someone make a real marseyzergling or another starcraft marsey before I submit this piece of shit
You have 2 hours
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Pour one out for the GOAT of WoW commentary
RIP you bri'ish king
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Snapshots:
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