Best I can do is create shareholder value by making our product shittier and more expensive. Take it or leave it kid
Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year
Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Treating your customers decently can lead to profits in the long run. What an insight. They should teach that at business schools.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
maybe someone should tell them we’re leaving it. it doesnt seem like theyre noticing.
Taldan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Valve has fundamentally different goals from Microsoft and Sony
Microsoft and Sony want to increase profit a couple percentage for the next quarter
Valve wants to be profitable 10, 20, 30 years into the future
Thing is, they have been doing this for over a decade. Publicly traded companies can’t compete long-term, if there’s a well funded provate competitor
BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 day ago
Thing is, they have been doing this for over a decade. Publicly traded companies can’t compete long-term, if there’s a well funded provate competitor
Of course they can, they can use the same aim. Problem is it’s more profitable to grind a company down, let it bankrupt and do the same to the next company. Hence enshittification arrived, venture capital has a full playbook for dismantling companies from the inside.
There’s still a few old bastions wanting stability, Coca Cola Group is the most obvious example of this
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
its not actually more profitable though. its only more profitable today, at the expense of future profits. this is more a problem caused by personal gain being directly linked to short term corporate gain. its only rational behavior from the perspective of the individual executives benefitting from the crazy compensation packages for laying everyone off and enshittifying the product. literally everyone else loses unless they get lucky and bail at just the right moment.
novibe@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
That’s only true in an old model of individual investors who go to shareholder meetings and stay with a company forever. That’s not how the world has worked for decades and decades.
Most rich people don’t have investments in individual stock. They don’t give a fuck if a company goes bust or not. Their investments are in giving out loans, bonds, funds etc. They park their money in a family office, and their money moves around the world more than an air steward.
If a company’s stock goes down 1% they diversify into other stock. They sell to buy gold.
It really isn’t “worse in the long-term” for them. The wealthy. They are getting richer faster than any other period of history and you think they are dumb…? Not working in their own best interest? Even in the long-term…?
They pay people dozens of millions a year to make them the most money possible forever. People absurdly more intelligent than any of us here. People who would centuries ago be genius scientists.
I’m sure they know what they are doing. And they are winning and we are losing.
BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 13 hours ago
The big investors are earning money on it, the suits has done the calculations and they’re earning a few percentages more a year dismantling companies than they would, had they chosen stability
Parts of it is also how safe of a bet it is to dismantle, as big capital likes safe investments. Which is largely also why AAA isn’t innovative anymore, they consider it too big of a risk to invent a new wheel
doublah@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Publicly traded companies can’t compete long-term, if there’s a well funded private competitor
That’s why these companies love the idea of purchasing half the industry or using their resources to operate at a loss and squeeze out private competitors.
If they can’t compete, they can consolidate.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Then trust busting needs to happen
Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The gaming industry is fine. The “wall street gaming industry” is not.
It’s about time these corporate feral hogs start to feel the pain of the free market but they deserve much worse, bankruptcy. Xbox still exists, no leaders were laid off, their parent company still supports genocide, and this is all a problem.
Do you really want your games to pay for 8-10 figures a year for a hollow executive team’s risk free compensation? One where they have 0 liability, $0 of their own money on the line, literally not even gamers, to be the last word on what games make it into our hands and how they wring our wallets dry?
FlameBurningOrange@fedinsfw.app 19 hours ago
Reminds me of the film Air and the principle “If we do the right thing we’ll make money damn near automatic.”
tixooo@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Who would have thought that eh?
mecen@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Online subscription is a joke at this point
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But I need a return on my investment now! Short term profits! Short term profits! SHORT TERM PROFITS!
Venator@lemmy.nz 3 minutes ago
But what about number go up this quarter?