Promethiel

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[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Those amounts aren't USD yeah, probably habit when writing down money. The 170k and 360k figures are the WoW virtual currency aka "gold".

There is a floor to WoW token's gold value from what I recall (it's been years since I interacted with Blizzard and WoW) but no ceiling.

Dunno how hard it curbed bots/unsanctioned gold sellers/fascist scum grassroots campaigns (no, really, look into Stephen Bannon and WoW gold it's so fucking stupid) but!

Blizzard absolutely realized and then moved to take all the money that was being left on the table from 3rd party virtual currency sales, and they apply every measure and analytical tool to maximize that profit because of course.

This mount's release is literally them inflating the price of the virtual currency ahead of real life earnings calls, because it absolutely will sell and give them the revenue infusion that the WoW token's rise in value is meant to provide for as long as they want until it's time to pump the numbers again with another mount/high sought store item.

A very similar variant in form and function to this mount was once available in-game and trade able with a rarity tuned that it ended up being sold for the WoW Token equivalent of ~$500 at the prices at the time, as there was no store version or similar option elsewhere.

It's no accident that when the price of the WoW Token is at its lowest, here comes a slightly updated and dolled up version of that same highly sought mount version.

WoW is where real economics, car ownership culture, hoarding, and dopamine treadmills collide and Blizzard doesn't just know this but have it charted on 5 year plans.

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Too pricy. Good ol' depression is free and can overpower hunger signals if you languish long enough.

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

What is the problem they're so pragmatically a part of? And how do you pin both the content creators needing to eat and the reasonable take of that commenter on the poor Marketing executives who care about neither but just want--actually what do they (end goal of marketing, literally, semantically) want, in your eyes while you're at it? It is their (the marketing execs) side I take it you're on, since the commenter you replied to is part of the problem and the creators do "an ad is an ad" things?

Challenge; remember capitalism exists in the world as it must as the beginning of your answer (but if you can make it vanish and it all works out by the end of the answer, that's cool too as lots of us are looking for that one).

How is that other commenter part of the problem, actually part of the problem suspect?

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

There actually is an asterisk and most of us can see. Does this happen in your life often?

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These totally normal human beings you sound like you deify...are you their psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, counselor? Short of those professions or a former tutor who happened to treat all three...

Well, interesting thing to devote anecdotal brain power to, I'll tell you that.

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You haven't experienced slow until you try to take Firefox through Google Cloud Console or Search Tools. 15 seconds in Chrome, somehow turns into 3 minutes in Firefox, funny how it does that.

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Pedals...Holy shit, yes, foot buttons. Wow. This is not sarcasm, I forgot pedals are just foot input, not limited to a specific purpose like music making or whatever. I don't need more hand buttons I need pedals.

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

This. Nowhere is the paradox of tolerance more dangerous than around "ableism" issues; people gotta learn to keep their targets sighted on the actual scum Insidiously using empathy to cross purposes.

The rightfully tolerant protector of the less able does not argue against the Nazi arguing he should be able to punch people without repercussions, they punch the Nazi until he shuts up and go back to equity for everyone else with a clean conscience.

Don't tolerate the intolerant; don't shield them with the benefit of the doubt or stop those with the conviction to stand up for those being told to sit either.

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Of course not. Why would I risk limiting our market share that way?

I demonstrate synergy and the ability to run an agile ship by instead outsourcing development of an app charging 1,000,000,000 people $15 monthly for the privilege of pressing the button and posting that they weren't it this month.

Then I press it, because we must make sure our actions align with increasing shareholder value.

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Thank you. The one arena where the fault really does lie in few enough hands they fit around a biggish table, and the Internet instead makes a nebulous boogeyman out of "marketing" (don't get it twisted either y'all, I condone zero of the bullshit marketing practices we all hate, but that's also the same table of people) instead of the board.

It's not even secret information. The decision came from the minds of these folks (as they understood what they asked to be measured and think to steer to measure higher numbers of whatever they're measuring):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/corporate-governance/board-of-directors.aspx

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Then it just looks like you're trying to give a competitive edge to US evil social media.

This is not just probable but certain; the whole thing is a very long way of saying this. In a world where the US worked for its citizens, this is a national security no-brainer. But we don't live in a world where the spirit of things is followed when you can enrich yourself skirting the letter. Shit sucks, but this not a secret conspiracy; it's realpolitik.

and preventing youth from learning about the situation in Palestine.

This one is more subjective...and also still probable for the same fucking reasons and good luck sharing the fact that you can act in a so called 'security' driven purpose and this is the perfect time to do sneaky shit. As if all of History wasn't rife with examples with the Patriot Act being the first USA centric coming to mind amongst fuck what, hundreds?

That is also realpolitik, and all the players know it. Shit sucks.

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