Only the upper castes immigrate here.
They're literally sending their best, and they all fuckin suck.
Can't imagine what kind of monsters india is hiding.
Making one Call of Duty costs up to $700 million. The shooter going viral right now costs $5, and no big studio will ever copy it, no matter how much money it makes.
That $700 million number is real, by the way. It came out in Activision's own court filings.
And the demand for a game like this was proven two decades ago. GTA San Andreas was literally gang territory wars in a fake LA. It sold 27.5 million copies and became one of the best-selling games of all time. Then every major studio spent the next 20 years pretending that never happened.
Players never stopped wanting it. Big publishers just got too big to make it. You've got platform cert, advertisers, and a legal team gaming out every bad headline before a single level gets built. A military shooter set in fake Russia sails through all of that. A gang shooter set on the South Side of Chicago never makes it out of the pitch meeting.
So the demand sat there for 20 years until the cost of serving it collapsed. Unreal Engine is free until you make your first million. Asset stores sell you everything else. A tiny dev can now ship something that looks like Call of Duty in a 15-second clip, and a 15-second clip is the whole marketing budget these days.
Rockstar is the only company with the brand armor to touch this material, and their version reportedly costs $2 billion and comes out whenever it comes out.
That's why the small dev is the one with the real moat here. Activision's $700 million comes with a content filter bolted on, and that filter is doing the indie's marketing for free. Every clip spreads because people know the biggest shooter franchise on earth would never make this.
The risk committee at a $100 billion publisher turned out to be the best business partner a $5 game ever had.
I love this image so much because this dude was beaten like this for killing a little black girl by other blacks and not a single person will care they’ll just post it hoping no one looks up the context
White person, distraught that a black man brutally killed his wife and daughter: "THIS NIGGER KILLED MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER!"
black people: "Oh my God...did you just say nigger?! 😡😡🤬"
I wish I was exaggerating