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08/19/23 10:23 AM

#81244 RE: nit2win #81229

I don't get why though, they themselves PR'd 2 years ago they were closing shop on Minecraft because it's unprofitable.

Just looking and Roblox developer payout terms and conditions, and the likeness it resembles to minecraft, it should have been abundantly obvious that venture would also be unprofitable as Roblox takes the vast majority of developer profits for themselves.

And that they were cloning already established games, why would players leave an established game with a huge player base and cinstant updates, to play a clone of that game that's not as good and less players?


Now they're pivoting into phone games, knowing that they failed already at Web3 games, platformer games (which are already mobile playable through the apps) and lack of funding, I don't see this venture turning out positive either.

They'll have to again go to a 3rd party developer to get these games made, which will be expensive, and mobile gamers expect consistent updates to the games, which will be costly since they don't have an in house team to work on them.

They're essentially a General Contractor of the gaming world, going to 3rd parties all the time to develop and produce prodcuts while relying on $1.99 transactions to pay for it all will not work.


They should've hired an in-house team with the $3+ million, and brought everything in house, like a real company.


Honestly, I'm not sure what they pay Sterling $100k+ a year to do. He doesn't create, he doesn't lead (how do you lead a team of one other person - Fluxty) that's just a work buddy. He's not a developer or coder. He just comes up with basic ideas and tries to find someone to make them.

Any dumb Schmoe could do that for way less.


I don't believe ViaOne is truly supporting GMER - in the sense that it's beneficial. They seem to dip a toe into GMERs world, gently pushing it uphill. They need to be a V8 HEMI behind GMER if they want it to succeed.

Tell them to quit Richardin' around (think Richard nickname) and drop a HEMI in this thing and see it through. Stop stopping to smell the roses at every shiny object on the road and put the pedal to the metal to the final destination.

Imo.