r/pcmasterrace • u/TheocraticAtheist • 8h ago

News/Article BioWare is closing down.

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u/Lunix420 Ryzen 3700X | RTX 4090 | 32 GB RAM | I use Arch btw 8h ago

Except you're wrong, YouTube broke even in 2014 and has since been profitable. They do NOT loose money, they are making ~16% profit on their revenue.

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u/SuperCruisePanther 8h ago

2019, not 2014. YT lost money until 2019.

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u/Lunix420 Ryzen 3700X | RTX 4090 | 32 GB RAM | I use Arch btw 7h ago

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.

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u/SuperCruisePanther 7h ago

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.