Message from @CrimsonGhost
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I'm glad I don't drink the water here.
maybe its the lithium Vox wants to put in the water
@Reynala apparently Marx coined the term while referring to Smith. They both believed in the labour theory of value, so both statists.
(((Objectivists)))
fuckin inferno cop
lol
what is that figure of
Kekko Kamen @Dess Dess DESS :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOwKFaDUSKM
Oh cool
I'll watch it soon I guess
@da britian thanks btw
Why did Blizzard's value dip so sharply?
money is money
i can't imagine betraying my entire fanbase though
when the content is literally gambling, dont be surprised when those who wanted real content leave
that is so hilariously fucked up
Activision stock fell because of a number of things.
The Diablo Immortal thing only made them lose 6%. They're actually down close to 19% this month though.
How?
Because after Diablo Immortal, they followed it up with an investor's Q+A thing, where they admitted:
1- That Destiny 2 was losing players due to having sucked ass and overmonetized.
2- That Black Ops 4 is not selling as well as it should be because they went all in on doing a battle royale with microtransactions instead of just making a good Black Ops game.
3- They're losing playerbase literally everywhere, especially in their greed-fueled heavily monetized games like Hearthstone, where latest expansions have had fewer and fewer players wasting money investing in new card sets "to stay competitive".
4- That Diablo Immortal isn't the only mainline game they're abandoning normal design for and going mobile.
5- That they're actually taking high level staff and resources away from other projects to do more mobile games.
And when called out on all of this, having pointed out that it sounds like every existing franchise is losing money, and their new franchises are alienating the fans and driving them away in droves... so it looks like the only way forward is for them to keep losing money...
Activision's response was: "No no no, it's fine. We'll just INCREASE MONETIZATION of the existing fanbase, that'll make up for it! We've got a plan to pump out monetizable content faster and harder than ever, and our current customers will pay through the nose for it enough that all the customers we're losing won't matter, we'll make just as much money anyhow!"
... So fans and investors alike looked at them and said, "... Yeah, fuck you. We're going with your competitor instead."
And thus the tale of how a company worth as many billions as they are, can lose nearly 20% of its net worth on the market in less than a month.
*need to find his twitter handle, i cannot find*
