Mike Schaffnit

Senior Video Editor @ Blizzard Entertainment | Currently working on @Warcraft. Views expressed are my own.

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

You’re learning tangible skills, but they are based within that platforms ecosystem.

So once you are dependent on their revenue share, they can start to gouge your split to generate shareholder value, instead of running a bunch of layoffs.

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

On one hand… I love this for the people who have the ambition to take the game they love and turn that passion into a career.

But the scary downside is that Daily Active User is becoming the metric for corporations as their success benchmark.

[leopardracer @leopardracer]

3 guys. Same apartment. $1.5 billion paid out by Roblox in 2025.

They figured out the code doesn’t matter anymore.

Roblox has 380 million monthly users. $1.5B paid to creators last year. Up 31% from the year before.

The top 1,000 creators averaged $1.3 million each.

The wall that kept everyone out was always Luau - Roblox’s custom programming language. You needed to learn it. Most people never did.

Claude writes Luau. And it connects directly to Roblox Studio via MCP.

One developer built a full mining tycoon - currency system, shop, rebirth mechanics, persistent data - in 2 hours. Zero scripting experience. Every line of code generated by AI.

These guys live together. They share a kitchen and a game engine. And they claim to make millions doing exactly this.

The barrier is gone.

The window is open.

Most people still haven’t noticed.

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

Much like rideshare programs, it is designed “democratize” game dev… while not needing to pay upfront development cost. You earn a share of the revenue you generate.

This will kill in house dev, which maybe isn’t a “bad” thing… until the platform can’t sustain it’s payout rate

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

@spartan316 I have no issue with taking SS. (Even if the system has paid out more than it collects since 2010)

But if your ONLY plan for retirement is SS then you better expect to live off a FIXED Income while inflation eats away all of your buying power. THAT… is just “our economy”

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

No one “earns” a retirement. Younger generations are constantly told to “pick ourself up by our bootstraps” and to stop “leeching the system”

No one is entitled to a retirement. Including myself. So plan and save like we all are told we have to, so you don’t have to “un-retire”

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

Seniors on fixed incomes can't absorb rising costs the way others can. In Arizona, 1 in 5 residents is over 65. Washington doesn't talk about that enough. My Cost of Living Emergency Act is designed to protect them and the retirement they earned.

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

@devolore Just because they are in the “Golden Years” doesn’t mean they don’t also have to deal with the uncomfortable economic reality like the rest of us.

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

@devolore Oh… absolutely. Do not get me wrong, my point is more that we shouldn’t be bailing out boomers just because their “fixed income” is struggling to keep up with rising prices like the rest of us.

Especially when we have already stopped taxing Social Security.

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

But man… I do miss those days.

Those friendships. Thise Friday night accomplishments. And the time just spent messing around in zones like Stanglethorn Vale. ❤️

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

This definitely hit me in the feels… but it also sorta hit a huge undercurrent of what happened for me in WoW

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[World of Warcraft @Warcraft]

A Place To Call Home | feat. @AURORAmusic 🎧

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

Now I do realize this is entirely self inflicted. I simply choose to not participate in the same way that I use to.

My availabile time, focus, and personal life look entirely different. I would have NEVER achieved my career if I didn’t let that stuff go

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

@Magickmann1 put me in coach!!! 🤣

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I swear... (even tho I have been teasing it for years) I AM still working on the content that I've been promising. It's just taken a lot of time to dial everything in!

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

@TheOtherFrost Wouldn’t “kumbaya” also entail soliciting the feedback from absolutely every person who has an opinion, regardless of if they are playing your game or not?

We need games that try to satisfy the person who is actually playing. Not be a vast blanket trying to capture everyone

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

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[Chidanand Tripathi @thetripathi58]

Let’s be honest: what tech calls ‘remixing’ is really just fast-track plagiarism.

If you’re not starting from scratch, you’re basically a DJ spinning other people’s IP. Prove me wrong.

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

@TheWizardGrimm Oh I put no stake in the timeline. But the impending idea does have a problem to solve that I haven’t seen anyone really discuss

[Mike Schaffnit @MikeSchaffnit]

Has anyone talked about the insurance implications on something like this?

Right now, even if you use FSD you are still considered to be behind the wheel and at fault in some cases. But with literally no way to intervene, who is “at fault” when its your vehicle that is at fault?

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Elon Musk just confirmed that Tesla will deliver a Cybercab to a customer for $30,000 or less by the end of 2026.

You will be able to buy a Cybercab for personal use.