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[–] missingno@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do they though? The biggest and most profitable games right now are all live services. Consumers are very much voting for live services.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They voted for a handful of them, and then violently voted against the next thousand.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same for every genre. For every Sonic or Mario there are 1,000 Bubsy's.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubsy

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

But they don't have any false expectations of making hundreds of millions of dollars, betting everything they have that it will.