since somebody retweeted this in dubious context, no, china isn't the scary word. speculative is the scary word.
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a dev wiser than me once said "the vast majority of the aaa game industry in 2020 is just a shell game of speculative investment from chinese tech conglomerates, it would absolutely not be able to make any money otherwise" and i haven't been able to stop thinking about that
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Truth. Throw hundreds of millions at multiple studios waiting for one to hit the tens of billions Next Hot Thing.
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And it aint JUST videogames that this is happening with either.
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So w/o china vydia is dead? Or does it go deeper?
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It's just more end stage capitalism, totally unsustainable, grinding up people to make product, propped up by Chinese billionaires... shit rocks lol
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im just gonna.... take up farming or somethin
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it's 2020, the farms are all filled with retired startup devs who make more money than us
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I wouldn’t describe this as 100% true, plenty of studios making enormous amounts of money irrespective of direction of investment
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And Chinese cash can make bad bets. Like the mob laundering money, any way you can get it out of the country is worth it.
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