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There was some murmuring of Elon, who is the #1 global Diablo 4 player, starting some publisher for gaming.
Gaming studios seem to need ESG dollars which come with strings attached like requiring narrative review by DEI SweetBabyInc-like consultants.
Ubisoft and others are on a run with bomb-after-bomb releases underperforming massively. Real financial losses.
It may just be a matter of time has the market adjusts post-election.
Yeah that’s kinda what I was getting at. Elon has joked about buying MSNBC but he should save his $$$ and buy some game publishers instead. For a couple billion you could flip the political polarity of the games market which reaches hundreds of millions of people.
Yeah, but you'd make a lot of money doing so which might not be so good for Elon's tax bill. At least with journalism the write-off is nigh-guaranteed.
The number of people who want to bet against Elon grows larger. So far their record is pretty dismal but good luck.
I'll take the opposite bet. Elon will make money on Twitter.
Elon would have made a massive profit if Twitter went completely bankrupt today and charged him another ten billion dollars for nothing on the way out.
He used it to buy himself a seat in the halls of power, not just embedding himself in a brand new government but doing so with an explicit mandate to fire the people who were in charge of regulating his various companies. I'm honestly not sure you could put the value of that trade into dollar terms.
Hard agree. And imagine the influence Elon could buy for just a couple billion invested in video game studios.
Somehow we allowed far left activists to dominate video games. It's bizarre. Video game players lean conservative. Why is there no conservative content being made for them? It's as if Mormons in Utah were forced to watch gay furry porn on TV because that's the only thing available. Sure, they'll watch it, but that's only because nothing better exists.
Once anti-woke video game studios appear, they will quickly displace the incumbents.
Take a look at CNN's ratings and see the future of current game devs who refuse to pivot.
They won’t because to the average Call of Duty or League of Legends player the ‘lore’ and any associated progressive politics are completely irrelevant to their enjoyment and these franchises have $10bn moats in terms of brand value and built up expertise.
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