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I don’t think they would keep investing in marketing if they didn’t know if it worked. I’m just guessing, but I believe there’s a noticeable bump in sales after a successful marketing campaign.

It must be some mismanagement issue going on in the games industry. Wrong stakeholders who have no idea of game development influencing the wrong decisions.

I think marketing is always important no matter how established you are. Coca Cola aren’t skimping on their marketing budget even if they’re the most recognizable brand in the world.

It’s about constantly reminding everybody “hey, I exist! Don’t you want to buy me?”.

My guess is that there will be some sections where you play as Link. Kind of like how you play as Zelda in some sections of Spirit Tracks (if I remember correctly).

They also did other weird decisions like focusing on Symbian, and then move all their attention on Windows. Nobody cared about Symbian or Windows. Everything was on Android and iOS.

They were too slow to adapt to the new market, and when they adapted they did so in the wrong way.

Sounds more like warframe is using the early access model to me. I think that’s fine. Many great games are in early access that are worth their price even in their unfinished state.

Star Citizen feels different, even though it’s also early access. In part because of the weirdly priced ships. There are ships that cost thousands dollars. Like, what’s the justification for that? Most people spend way less on games for a year, but this game asks this price just to gain access to one asset?

Another part is the ever expanding scope. It feels like they don’t really want to release the game. They’ve found there’s no point in actually finishing the game when they can just keep selling the promise of the definitive space sim game. Keep giving them more money and they will promise more.

Nokia is another example. They were leading in mobile tech, only to struggle keeping up with smart phones.

They’re so heavily optimized in old tech they can’t adapt to new tech.

He’s specifically talking about the original. Bioshock was unlikely to get made with its budget due to how niche System Shock is. It’s impressive they managed to make Bioshock a big success.

Every time I see some SC news I look up to see if there’s any release date announced for SQ42 yet.

It was originally supposed to release in 2014 and it still doesn’t have a release date!

They want to make stuff that look good in the quarterly earnings report. They want to show they’re fully committed to AI in all their products or whatever.

They don’t want satisfied customers. They want satisfied investors.

I guess I’m 1. No, I don’t watch “adult video”.

I already have a decent amount of masturbation addiction, and I don’t want to make it worse.

He’s talking about System Shock, which wasn’t that immensely popular.

Chrome has fuckton more of Google telemetry, so it evens out.

Why don’t you just go directly to FaltyDL’s own channel directly if you want to listen to their music, instead of relying on some BS playlist unrelated to the artist? Music seems to be accessible there without Andrew Tate shit.

Perl is excellent for text manipulation! I use it time from time when I need to do more advanced text manipulation in bash. perl -ne ‘[code goes here]’ is good for making one liners in bash.

People use YouTube because that’s where you get biggest outreach. YouTube pay a little, but YouTubers mostly rely on secondary incomes like sponsors and Patreon. Both of these are viable on any other platform.

Podcasts have mainly been using this model for a long time.

The underlying tech doesn’t matter. Only it has an easy to use interface. I just took FTP as an example of technology that already exists today.

Recommendation systems don’t need to be that complicated. In its base form it’s just a list of videos you’ve watched (or content creators or topics). It can then be compared with the watching lists of other people to get an idea of what else you might be interested in. No need for any advanced video recognition.

Maybe this list is isolated within a single instance. Maybe it can be shared between instances. Different instances might use different recommendation systems.

Again, it might not work as well as YouTube’s, but I don’t think it needs to.

Recommendation systems are well studied. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to add some form of recommendation layer separate from (or on top of) the content delivery. It doesn’t need to be up to par with YouTube’s, at least before there’s any major content.

Most YouTubers rely on sponsors or Patreon. Podcasters are doing the same - many of which are self hosting. So I don’t think an ad delivery system is that needed.

I don’t see how it would have to work much differently compared to how Pocketcast or Overcast already works.

The first problem is getting content to the platform.