Or become a dead weight, when the manufacturer stops supporting it

Holy hell!

I never stayed in an Airbnb, always found easier and/or better options at hotels, or an apartment at booking.com. People act like Airbnb came up with the concept of renting apartments, while websites like this have been doing this for a decade by the time it came around.

booking.com

Capitalism breeds innovation

It’s called an excuse, same as we had with covid, supply chain issues, Ukraine war, energy prices, erc. Capitalist greed is limitless, they will use any excuse possible

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Don’t be evil

Thanks, I didn’t know this. Yes, they should have sold some studios, I bet EA or some big publishers would have been happy to buy one or two. Downsizing like this, they kill any future chance for revenue growth, very stupid move

Fuck Embracer.

This was a very good studio even recently, just look at Guardians of the Galaxy.

Then they cancelled their Deus Ex game, laid off 100 people, and 75 more. The studio has only 35 employees left, basically dead.

How the hell are they supposed to make game this way? Ehy would you buy a studio to kill it?

“Fried Chicken restaurant says kids don’t want to eat Hamburgers anymore”

They also closed Monolith, a great studio behind e.g. FEAR amd Shadow of Mordor games. They are making all the wrong decisions, and then will wonder why they have lost to competitors.

Free Speech^TM

At least the repair for a camera-only front is cheaper after the car crashes into a parked white bus

For me it has been this way on mobile and tablet for at least a year, and I didn’t find a way to turn it off. It gives the results in a completely random order, making older things impossible to find.

Multiple times, I had to sit down in front of a computer to find few months old emails.

Absolute garbage.

Good article. It was fundamentally not a good business model. You have to acquire new customers constantly just to keep the lights on, it’s unsustainable. Adding on top of that the expectations from investors to grow every year, and the collapse we see now is guatanteed.

I see they tried to diversify, that could have helped, but without a recurring revenue stream at the core of your business, you cannot become the big company they wanted to be.