Rad. Do Microsoft next.
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It's entirely possible these aren't real players, but are actually some kind of automated testing scripts or service monitors that someone forgot (or just never cared) to turn off before getting sacked, running on a forgotten QA box somewhere deep in the bowels of Sony.
I saw one the other day painted neon yellow. Believe it or not, it actually seemed like an improvement.
It's time to stop taking any CEO at their word.
Edit: scratch that, the time to stop taking any CEO at their word was 100 years ago.
This community desperately needs some better moderation...
I hate to break it to you, but our meat brains don't even have continuity of consciousness. We become unconscious all the time. The only real constant is the "hardware" our consciousness emerges from, but even that is always changing.
Why don't they just hire more people with the $700 million they've raised?
Estimates have put the game's budget at upwards of $250 million, so they'd need to sell at least 5 times as many copies to even break even. Games (from traditional studios, anyway) are crazy expensive now.
Really? Back in the day even Charon took his cut.
Curious how they quantify 'attractiveness'. Is it self-reported, or are they attempting to use some kind of qualitative metric to rate the attractiveness of participants?
If the former, you could just as easily draw the conclusion that more confident people spend less time gaming.
Again! Again!