• amniotic druid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Quick! More Indians! It’s jobs that citizens don’t want to do! (entry or junior level jobs)

    I was defending her because I seriously thought that Xbox was rotting under Phil Spencer, but finding out that she okayed 3,200 layoffs the day that her request for 2,100 H1-B applications was accepted was just so obvious and crass.

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      I think the the problem with the gaming industry is more structural instead of trapped to one company. The public won’t pay for what they say, so the gaming industry has become focused on gambling addicts since they’re the only ones who pay.

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        The public won’t pay for what they say

        Steam is wildly profitable, and so are numerous gaming companies.

        The industry is focused on gambling addicts and micro-transactions because it’s MOST profitable; not because the alternative isn’t profitable or sustainable.

        Microsoft facilitates genocide because it’s profitable. They would literally enslave you and everyone you care about in a matrix if it were MOST profitable, too. If you don’t believe that, you’re just an idiot.

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          The industry is focused on gambling addicts and micro-transactions because it’s MOST profitable; not because the alternative isn’t profitable or sustainable.

          The gaming industry is in crisis. It isn’t just Microsoft laying off staff. If you want to use Valve as an example, they became the app store for PC gaming; which puts them more in line with Apple or Google in their control of their own app stores.