It's complex and imperfect, but in this situation the most direct ROI would be the cost of recruiting a newly graduated doctor by increasing the salary until someone accepts compared to the cost of providing the…
While this is just a rule of thumb, I consider moderate exercise, reading, and socializing to be roughly equivalent in positive health benefits. I try to get a little bit of each every day, and then try to have longer…
This is common for teachers in many US states too -- spend X years teaching where we need you the most and we cover your degree. In the US a teaching degree might be $50,000, and medical degree might be $500,000. I'm…
I think IRL has more implications to not taking promotions than is coded into the game. I wouldn't use this game as career advice.
Many strategies have an early adopter advantage.
It's not uncommon to have a PC at the desk and a console for the couch.
Wouldn't a fair way to count the value be all of the money selling them produced minus all of the money you spent producing them?
The people I know that like Xbox like Game Pass and Buy Once Play Anywhere. Xbox is the value proposition for people that want to play on Console + {PC/Handheld}.
Exactly. The inflation rate is about 3%, so the people at Xbox worked very hard all year to have about the same value they put into it.
I own a decent library of retro games, sized in the hundreds. Part of my intake process is to rip my games onto a digital format. Owning the physical media, and acquiring the backup legally, gives me a strong legal…
I would recommend looking at a wide variety of sources of information. Some YouTube channels, GamersNexus being one, focus heavily on spinning a gloomy narrative. By wide variety of information channels, I don't mean a…
If PR value gets panels installed faster than they otherwise would be who cares. The most important thing is we install as much solar as possible as quickly as possible, because we're killing ourselves fighting wars for…
It's just good utilization of marketing budget.
1. An Xbox Live/Playstation Plus is required for any online multiplayer functionality. 2. DRM Free still matters with multiplayer games. Minecraft is a perfect example, where you can run your own client/server and play…
Consumer protection is a type of regulation, but if you can brand a rule as "Consumer protection" it will poll better than "regulation" because that's how marketing works.
1. That was 20 years ago. I wonder how it would pencil out now. 2. Yeah it was kind of dumb to put the panels into a high wear environment like a road. 3. What matters more is which projects pencil out the best. There…
Zuckerberg was always excellent at knowing how to capture the attention of the internet....
I don't see this as "regulation". I see this as extending the same consumer protections that existed in the era of analog physical media to the digital age.
Yes. Look at the market research. It's growing specifically fast in Asia, but there is also strong growth with North America. Having a PC to check your email, order off amazon, and download recipes is dying. Buying a PC…
I'm optimistic about PC gaming because if Steam begins acting as an evil gatekeeper then game developers can adopt other avenues to deliver the games to their players. It's an open platform. People are using Steam now…
I'm pessimistic about physical media yes. That's a legacy technology at this point.
I think it's a fair comparison. Steam can change their behavior to become much more user hostile at any point, and hold our triple digit steam libraries hostage.
A per-play revenue share is not uncommon in some markets, especially for games with frequent updates or more complicated network features.
Absolutely this. Fifteen years ago World of Warcraft was at its peak. You had 12 million people paying a monthly fee, plus buying the occasional expansion pack. No other gaming company had seen reoccurring revenue…
It's solar, of course the unit economics are going to pencil out positive in the majority of climates and energy markets. The real question is "why should we put them here instead of somewhere else." I wonder if the…
It's complex and imperfect, but in this situation the most direct ROI would be the cost of recruiting a newly graduated doctor by increasing the salary until someone accepts compared to the cost of providing the…
While this is just a rule of thumb, I consider moderate exercise, reading, and socializing to be roughly equivalent in positive health benefits. I try to get a little bit of each every day, and then try to have longer…
This is common for teachers in many US states too -- spend X years teaching where we need you the most and we cover your degree. In the US a teaching degree might be $50,000, and medical degree might be $500,000. I'm…
I think IRL has more implications to not taking promotions than is coded into the game. I wouldn't use this game as career advice.
Many strategies have an early adopter advantage.
It's not uncommon to have a PC at the desk and a console for the couch.
Wouldn't a fair way to count the value be all of the money selling them produced minus all of the money you spent producing them?
The people I know that like Xbox like Game Pass and Buy Once Play Anywhere. Xbox is the value proposition for people that want to play on Console + {PC/Handheld}.
Exactly. The inflation rate is about 3%, so the people at Xbox worked very hard all year to have about the same value they put into it.
I own a decent library of retro games, sized in the hundreds. Part of my intake process is to rip my games onto a digital format. Owning the physical media, and acquiring the backup legally, gives me a strong legal…
I would recommend looking at a wide variety of sources of information. Some YouTube channels, GamersNexus being one, focus heavily on spinning a gloomy narrative. By wide variety of information channels, I don't mean a…
If PR value gets panels installed faster than they otherwise would be who cares. The most important thing is we install as much solar as possible as quickly as possible, because we're killing ourselves fighting wars for…
It's just good utilization of marketing budget.
1. An Xbox Live/Playstation Plus is required for any online multiplayer functionality. 2. DRM Free still matters with multiplayer games. Minecraft is a perfect example, where you can run your own client/server and play…
Consumer protection is a type of regulation, but if you can brand a rule as "Consumer protection" it will poll better than "regulation" because that's how marketing works.
1. That was 20 years ago. I wonder how it would pencil out now. 2. Yeah it was kind of dumb to put the panels into a high wear environment like a road. 3. What matters more is which projects pencil out the best. There…
Zuckerberg was always excellent at knowing how to capture the attention of the internet....
I don't see this as "regulation". I see this as extending the same consumer protections that existed in the era of analog physical media to the digital age.
Yes. Look at the market research. It's growing specifically fast in Asia, but there is also strong growth with North America. Having a PC to check your email, order off amazon, and download recipes is dying. Buying a PC…
I'm optimistic about PC gaming because if Steam begins acting as an evil gatekeeper then game developers can adopt other avenues to deliver the games to their players. It's an open platform. People are using Steam now…
I'm pessimistic about physical media yes. That's a legacy technology at this point.
I think it's a fair comparison. Steam can change their behavior to become much more user hostile at any point, and hold our triple digit steam libraries hostage.
A per-play revenue share is not uncommon in some markets, especially for games with frequent updates or more complicated network features.
Absolutely this. Fifteen years ago World of Warcraft was at its peak. You had 12 million people paying a monthly fee, plus buying the occasional expansion pack. No other gaming company had seen reoccurring revenue…
It's solar, of course the unit economics are going to pencil out positive in the majority of climates and energy markets. The real question is "why should we put them here instead of somewhere else." I wonder if the…