Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining.
never heard this one
Crytek was never massive and Crytek is doing just fine they make their money selling software not video games but Hunt was really successful anyhow.
That's the point, they cannot get big, the EU hates big companies. That's the main difference between you and us. US antitrust law is designed to prevent cartels, EU competition law is designed to prevent cartels and monopolies, unless they are state monopoly. It's dumb that's how it has always been around here. Crytek rent out CryEngine tech and do niche projects like Hunt, which is fine, but they will never operate on the same level as Epic or Valve
THQ came back from the dead.
THQ came back from the dead through Embracer buying up distressed IP and milking back catalogs. That’s not a creative or healthy company anymore.
Paradox is as strong as always despite feuding CEOs.
Paradox is a good studio but they’re a niche mid-size publisher. They’re not computing with Rockstar or Epic
Ubisoft has close down multiple studios in Canada in America and the only studio making money for them Is Blue Byte in Germany.
Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining cause I ain't got an umbrella!
Ubisoft has reduced staff in Canada
because they overexpanded and Canada itself is now drifting toward more EU-style socialist policies thanks to Trudeau and the rest of the socialist / Labour politicians. Quebec (where Montreal is, which makes videa games) literally introduced new labor quotas, new taxes, and bunch of DEI / ESG nonsense. That’s why Ubisoft and EA have paused hiring in Canada recently.
The European Gaming market is healthier than the US gaming market.
The entire EU gaming market (Paradox + CD Project + Ubisoft EU branches)
combined can’t match the revenue of a single big US or Canadian publisher. The biggest games: Fortnite, GTA, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Minecraft, all come from the US, not the EU. Dude if you love it so much here and you think our system (EU) works so much better, let's trade passports. I don't have criminal records and I'll take yours even if you have a felony (not if you're on the sexual offender list though)
EU has not been plagued by a decade of ESG, DEI and other corporate top down pushes to politicize games in a veign attempt to get capital gains.
LOL you don't know what you're talking about. Nigger, the EU invented that shit. The Commission, the same Commission that you send the petition to, imposes diversity, inclusion and sustainability conditions in
all its creative grants.
Also Crusader King III:
If you tell me one more time blatant bullshit about a subject I am well familiar with I will just call you names and leave it at that.
I don't care?
Veilguard and Concord were US made garbage and just the tip of the iceberg of shit nobody plays while Paradox is making DLC for decades old games while making new games in the same genre.
In fact most EU fuck ups were published by US or other foreign companies.
You can keep cherry picking like this all day. The point is when you are free to innovate, you fail sometimes. The US and Canada dominate global gaming by every relevant metric. Paradox, literally survives by milking a few niche titles with DLC because the EU market doesn’t have the capital or risk appetite to launch new big games. And when they do, they always need US publishers or cash.
I do you stupid fucking nigger. I bought it. The store, the dev, the payment processor, the bank, the tax man. All agree I PURCHASED a PRODUCT. Which means I own it and can use it how and when ever I please. The publisher/developer don't have a right to tell me how I use something I own nor can they retroactively decide I don't own something. I didn't purchase a subscription, we're not talking about WoW.
Ok what game are you talking about then? My view on this is very clear and is not libertarian, it's just common sense
- if you paid for a game upfront, say 70 dollars (or 60 euros) especially if it can be played offline, and the game company make it unplayable, you should be and are entitled to a refund. If Nintendo put Mario Sunshine on the Switch e-shop, you buy it and they later remove it from your console because they want to migrate you to the Switch 2 (knowing Nintendo, a real possibility) then fuck them, you get your money back.
- if you're palying WoW (sorry that's just to illustrate my point), you mostly pay a subscription fee every month which in turn cover the operating expenses of keeping the game online for the multiplayer experience, you're not buying permanent access to the servers. It sucks but if the player base decreases and they can't or don't want to keep the servers up, you have to rely on goodwill if you want to get private server. You can't force them to keep the gate open. It was always in the terms. It's a subscription model, and you may hate it but then don't play WoW
- if you play a free-to-play battle royal style game, then you even have less of a claim to impose permanent connectivity. PUBG has been online since 2018, if they take it offline tomorrow, that's it. I never paid for it, it was free to play when I installed it. Just because I bought a hat in the game (I didn't cause I'm not a retard) I don't have a right to take over the servers.
If you disagree with this then there is no talking to you
Bro you're gonna do this everytime "if you disagree with me I will insult you and leave this Internet Forum forever" go ahead. I don't care.
you simply suck too much corporate dick to have a functional brain.
Stop talking about dicks
I will explain this as dumbly as possible so you can get it through your thick skull.
Thank you.
Most games for the past decade require an internet connection to an authenticator of sorts to run. Regardless of being multiplayer or singleplayer. Those authenticators run on servers. Those servers can be shut off. When they are shut off the game you BOUGHT doesn't work anymore. Many games have become no longer available to the people who BOUGHT them and there is no remedy or punishment for this do to how laws currently stand. The goal of SKG is to change those laws to make it so that this scenario would be illegal and you could get a remedy for it. Ideally the ability to circumvent or run on your own the authenticator. The games don't need the authenticator to function as some games have been hacked to circumvent it. It's just a tool by the merchant to destroy the product you bought.
That's covered in my three points above. You can't have the same approach for every game. I'm not a libertarian for pointing this out.
All your stupid chart shows is that the US has a much larger stock market than anywhere else. How many of those companies are fully American?
Almost none of them. In fact you will have companies that have their HQ and production entirely outside of the US they just use the US stock market to generate more revenue. Which makes perfect sense because the US is the biggest import market on the planet and the EU combined is still less than them.
This is a cope. Those are multinational companies, of course they have activities outside the US.... The point is these are AMERICAN COMPANIES made in the US, by Americans, because low regulation, low taxes and spirit of entrepreneurship. Maybe you don't feel at home. As I said, happy to switch places. The fact that you are a big import has nothing to do with anything. This is just nigger babble honestly. You should just move to Europe
And I don't need to follow your retarded line of reasoning about regulation. When you get down to brass tacks this doesn't fucking matter nigger.
If you say this enough time, it becomes true
The EU is giving me a tool to force companies to act right and I will use it.
And as I European I tell you to go f yourself. I don't want more regulation.
It's the best place in the world for the littlest guy, the consumer.
- I am a coonsumer I demand to barf on goy slope until I die. What about the entrepreneur? Sure, between the entrepreneur and the coonsoomer I pick the entrepreneur. That's just my view though, you don't have to chimp out at me because you see things differently.
I'm a communist I just parrot what Karl Marx said and I just conveniently attack counter revolutionaries
You heard it folks! Release the hounds, Smithers!!!
