I'm just pissed off about Mass Effect. Andromeda had really good moment to moment gameplay with totally forgettable characters and setting, and I was cautiously optimistic for ME4 and now we'll never get it. Feels like the games industry is collapsing before our very eyes with closure after closure and mass layoffs across the board.
That's what happens to every industry that gets bought up by large corps, for the most part. Even Youtube's quality is declining because of financial groups buying channels.
I don't watch a ton of YouTube channels in particular, what examples are there of channels declining after equity buyouts? I can only think of Veritasium but I haven't felt they have suffered a decline in quality
Veritasium used to have some of the best content on the 'tubes. Well researched and amazingly well written so even a dunce like me could understand complex topics.
Then along came PE and there was a marked decline in quality. They even made a video calling it out (no more than addressing the elephant in the room, however).
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Wrong. You are confusing the year they became profitable with the first time they officially disclosed their revenue.
Between 2014 and 2019 Google didn't even publish any data so literally we don't know what happened there. The only publicly know data from before 2019 is because of WSJ corporate leaks that proved they broke even in 2014.
For your claim that they lost money till 2019 to be true, they would have had to go from breaking even to loosing money again. But the assumption that YouTube went from breaking even at $4 billion in revenue in 2014 to somehow loosing money over the next five years, while scaling into a multi billion dollar company is absolute nonsense.
WSJ corporate leaks that proved they broke even in 2014.
But the assumption that YouTube went from breaking even at $4 billion in revenue in 2014 to somehow loosing money over the next five years, while scaling into a multi billion dollar company is absolute nonsense.
What are you talking about? Google bought YT in 2006. Financial groups bought channels even before that. You're saying it's been declined for 95% of its existence? At that point it isn't a decline it's just what it has always been.
A 4-person team financial group back in 2005 that wanted to get into the creator space early is definitely the same as a global group worth tens of billions of dollars that is doing it today.
Did you read my comment? It has nothing to do with whether or not they were buying channels. Its the RATE in which they are buying channels. Claiming financial groups have always bought channels at the rate they do now is absolutely false.
Your point of view reads like mental gymnastics to win an argument.
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For example, the article I linked estimates that mergers & acquisitions in the creator economy increasd almost 20 percent from 2024-2025 alone. Its impossible to deny the severity of the problem is worse.
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u/SolaireFlair117 8h ago
I'm just pissed off about Mass Effect. Andromeda had really good moment to moment gameplay with totally forgettable characters and setting, and I was cautiously optimistic for ME4 and now we'll never get it. Feels like the games industry is collapsing before our very eyes with closure after closure and mass layoffs across the board.