Great reference!

Exactly this!

They’re pretending it’s AI, or cryptocurrency, but neither has any use case that anybody wants or needs aside from money laundering and homework cheating

Well sure.

But when the lowest-hanging fruit is all harvested, reaching for the next available thing requires investment and so quarterly profits start dropping. Once the investments have been paid for, profits will never come back to where they were previously so it’s always diminishing returns

Now you’re catching on!

Because anything that isn’t easiest isn’t profitable

Doesn’t it depend entirely on the type of game?

The more immersion, the longer I want to spend in the game world and that means I want reasons to be there. Missions, goals, achievements, collectibles, new stories and characters, Easter eggs… Imagine a new story DLC for RDR. I would clamor for it

Humans will exist. We will live in the sea and we will have flippers. Our brains will be smaller, but we will eat lots of fish.

If I can make cheese good enough to pretend that it’s another brand, I’m gonna just slap my own label on it