The bigger your market grows, the more aware the cultural zeitgeist becomes
You’d like to think so. But look at Robinhood. Five years ago, everyone was screaming about how it was a rigged game. Citadel Investments was manipulating the options markets. Fidelity was getting insider deals. Everything was rigged. People needed to protest. Close out your account. Yadda yadda yadda.
What happened after that? As far as I can tell, Robinhood is more popular than ever. They’re certainly more profitable than ever. There was never any reform or regulation. Mostly, Reddit and similar big name social media firms just purged all the whinners and inflated the profiles of the shills and hacks.
A bookie in Vegas, one city, could keep running their casino forever
DraftKings has been making money hand over fist. They’re desperately trying to find new things for people to bet on. This isn’t one bookie in one city, it’s an international conglomerate that’s expanded its market share around the globe. It is a worldwide bookie.
No shortage of marks. They all keep coming back.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
Remember when gamers found out Suicide Squad, which at time had real hype behind it, would be live service BS…
And people literally just didn’t play it.
People. Even entire demigraphics, can a do learn.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I honestly don’t. Was never a SS head.
But I’ll take your word for it
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Well yeah. It was being developed by Rocksteady, beloved for the Arkham games.
But interest, despite the marketing, dropped off a cliff the second people smelled live service elements.
The game came out a died a quick death even more quietly than Concord.