Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines

• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I don’t see healthy companies sacrifice their long term fan base and development throughput for short term gains.

  New to Capitalism?

  No, hence my conclusions.

  You’ve never seen a corporation sacrifice its long-term health to report short-term profits, to meet an upcoming quarterly report?

  Ever?

  I’ve never seen one I would call healthy.

  Well, most people believe that all publicly traded corporations, healthy or otherwise, only focus on their next quarterly report profits, and that long-term strategy and growth goals are really if not never considered.

  Granted, I’d much rather live in your world than mine, but I don’t think you’re correct on this one.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You don’t see Take Two shoving GTA6 and Judas out the door for profits now, for instance. Paradox abiding by the same MO to burn good will for multiple games and then getting developers off their books is a move you make when you’re out of better options.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You don’t see Take Two shoving GTA6 and Judas out the door for profits now, for instance.

      And all the other corporations out there?

      Remember your stance was that all healthy corporations would never sacrifice long-term health for short-term profits.

      Paradox abiding by the same MO to burn good will for multiple games and then getting developers off their books is a move you make when you’re out of better options.

      You’re not really addressing my point, but instead skirting around it…

      Well, most people believe that all publicly traded corporations, healthy or otherwise, only focus on their next quarterly report profits, and that long-term strategy and growth goals are rarely if ever considered.

      Our original disagreement was on if a healthy corporation would focus on the quarterly profits over long-term goals in the same way that an unhealthy corporation would. Your stance was that any healthy corporation would not.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Correct. We’ve seen tons of layoffs in this industry because their business models weren’t healthy. So they’ll make cuts, or push out games like Cities: Skylines II or Skull and Bones when they’re not ready or will do long-term damage to their brand because they need to take the least bad option, but meanwhile, Take Two and Nintendo can push back marquis products another few quarters because they’ve got a moat of security around themselves. At times, those companies were not, and one day will not be, healthy, but then they sacrificed or will sacrifice something or other in order to survive to be healthy another day.

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