and that 93 bln is just chink coomer gacha scam
amazing
What I don't get is, who are the people throwing thousands of dollars into shitty mobile gaming? Are there really a bunch of chink millionaire whales willing to pay for shit in shitty chinkime games? Why don't they do normal rich person stuff, like travel to exotic destinations and frick high class hookers?
a lot of whales are morons who can't afford the ridiculous amounts of money they spend on shitty mobile games iirc. they're gambling addicts. no different than the deadbeat loser who spends all his paycheck at the races or casino. they've been around for ages.
>What I don't get is, who are the people throwing thousands of dollars into shitty mobile gaming
Market size. Think about it 1 billion morons paying $100 each is $100 billions dollars. There is 7bilions smartphone users.
Well numbers mean that market size of the game is larger than movies. people buy games but not got to movies. You know these 7 billions also have access to movie theaters.
I've spent some hundreds, but to put it into perspective, it has been along some years and for example WoW would have been more expensive. I do play some very intricate PC games as well like PoE, but mobile games are quite fun for example when you have a 5-minute break in the middle of the day. I spend the money according to my own set of principles that I think is justified, but those people who spent thousands just spend 100 dollars in an evening and comment about it like "Oops :D".
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What I don't get is, who are the people throwing thousands of dollars into shitty mobile gaming? Are there really a bunch of chink millionaire whales willing to pay for shit in shitty chinkime games? Why don't they do normal rich person stuff, like travel to exotic destinations and frick high class hookers?
It's literally the same reason gambling is profitable. Pay to win is really addictive. The entire is propped up by a very small number of whales who cannot control their compulsions and end up spending thousands on a single game.
It's actually kind of scary and very exploitative. But the takeaway is that they don't need quality. They just need accomplishments that are accompanied by catchy jingles, limited character skins, and a pay method to get attain these otherwise nearly impossible perks.
It's a casino for children.
I'm pretty sure the majority is actually adults.
There are a lot of kids who go nuts with their parents' credit cards once or twice. But that doesn't compare to the lonely commuters with expendable income who will knowingly drop hundreds at a time
>It's literally the same reason gambling is profitable. Pay to win is really addictive.
You're moronic. With gambling you can win money. With pay to win Clash of Clans you don't win any money.
are you moronic or just blind? Fricking PC GAMES ALONE make about as much money as the entire movie industry, and those are declared dead like every 2 weeks.
video games have been bigger than hollywood for a while now iirc. they're easily the most profitable and widespread form of entertainment nowadays. especially now that modern women are by large garbage the average modern man just spends all his time playing vidya.
Why does my opinion not matter just because I don't fork over my money like a braindead NPC sheeple?
You are so obsessed with what the mainstream masses do that you are broken.
Meanwhile I can literally download and torrent anything I want for free.
Get fricked.
you don't support the few good games and movies we get yearly so your opinion doesn't matter. unless you play and watch nothing but old games and movies that are impossible to buy now your opinion really doesn't matter and you're a non entity. so your shrieks of anger ring out hollow to nobody.
Why support things when you can get it for free?
I make over 100k as a Golang engineer and I don't have to spend a dime on games movies songs tv shows or anything
Feels good
Unlike you
Is it me or are pirategays getting more and more insufferable on this board with each passing day?
We are superior to you sheeple consoomers. Deal with it.
a lot less than women playing some match 3 abomination on their phone and being asked "do you want 3 extra moves for $3?"
a friend of my wife's had pretty much everything she could ever want and she threw it all away via mobile game microtransactions. Spent a thousand dollars in a week and doubled down when told to stop by her husband, so he kicked her out.
Stupid people over the age of 25 deserve to be exploited. Before then its a bit unethical since people are pretty much animals until their mid-late 20s.
Yes and no, I would be more upset at my dad than the video game. He should fricking know better. My mom has early dementia so its my fault for not supervising her properly.
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So they don't deserve to be exploited when it's your parents, but do when it's other people? Got it, typical hypocrite.
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Not big into reading comprehension are you, moron?
pc/console game provides hundreds of hours of entertainment for $100
easy to spend $100 on a mobile game because its almost all transactions under $5.
movie date cost $50, maybe entertained for 3 hours.
film studios need to lower prices until going to the movies is so cheap people dont even think about the cost.
>PC lowest revenue
This is why video games will never be good again. On the bright side, it's for the best that way, it's better to play the MMORPG that is life and improve your God given character than waste your time before a screen.
Games make so much money of losers with no life, the dopamine rush they get from buying skins and add ons is what gives them purpose and they'll spend their whole paychecks on it.
You cant really do that for movies. which is why movies are Soul and video games are just toys
>mobile games make more money than god
>yet not a single good one exists
truly baffling.
What I don't get is, who are the people throwing thousands of dollars into shitty mobile gaming? Are there really a bunch of chink millionaire whales willing to pay for shit in shitty chinkime games? Why don't they do normal rich person stuff, like travel to exotic destinations and frick high class hookers?
a lot of whales are morons who can't afford the ridiculous amounts of money they spend on shitty mobile games iirc. they're gambling addicts. no different than the deadbeat loser who spends all his paycheck at the races or casino. they've been around for ages.
reminder DSP put $50k into a WWE mobile game
npc normalgays sheeple
They don't count
mostly chinks, kids and lonely wine-aunts.
It’s old people and kids who don’t realize how much they’re spending every time they click the little buttons
>old people
boomers with dementia are literally spending their life savings on shitty phone games. what a world.
My aunt nearly had to take away my grandma’s ipad, she was burning hundreds of dollars on fricking candy crush it was absurd
Keyed grandma
mostly other asians - they showed revenue breakdown, you have to remember that region has ~2bln people and they are all gamblers
>What I don't get is, who are the people throwing thousands of dollars into shitty mobile gaming
Market size. Think about it 1 billion morons paying $100 each is $100 billions dollars. There is 7bilions smartphone users.
If that's the case then why do these numbers mean anything and why did OP make this thread?
Well numbers mean that market size of the game is larger than movies. people buy games but not got to movies. You know these 7 billions also have access to movie theaters.
Everyone has a smartphone. You don't need people spending thousands, just a few dollars each and then, boom. Trillions.
I've spent some hundreds, but to put it into perspective, it has been along some years and for example WoW would have been more expensive. I do play some very intricate PC games as well like PoE, but mobile games are quite fun for example when you have a 5-minute break in the middle of the day. I spend the money according to my own set of principles that I think is justified, but those people who spent thousands just spend 100 dollars in an evening and comment about it like "Oops :D".
Anyone with a bird or wife will tell you how long they spend on candy crush and shit.
A couple hundred dollarydoos is a small price to pay for this moron.
It's a casino for children.
It's literally the same reason gambling is profitable. Pay to win is really addictive. The entire is propped up by a very small number of whales who cannot control their compulsions and end up spending thousands on a single game.
It's actually kind of scary and very exploitative. But the takeaway is that they don't need quality. They just need accomplishments that are accompanied by catchy jingles, limited character skins, and a pay method to get attain these otherwise nearly impossible perks.
I'm pretty sure the majority is actually adults.
There are a lot of kids who go nuts with their parents' credit cards once or twice. But that doesn't compare to the lonely commuters with expendable income who will knowingly drop hundreds at a time
>It's literally the same reason gambling is profitable. Pay to win is really addictive.
You're moronic. With gambling you can win money. With pay to win Clash of Clans you don't win any money.
And that's why it's so profitable
Puzzle and Dragons. Simple as.
i’ve known more than 5 people who have spent 1000 dollars on mobile games that provide absolutely nothing other than “number go up” dopamine hits.
and that 93 bln is just chink coomer gacha scam
amazing
This includes shit like cell phone games, which is like including youtube videos and twitch streams in the movie category
are you moronic or just blind? Fricking PC GAMES ALONE make about as much money as the entire movie industry, and those are declared dead like every 2 weeks.
>pre covid movie numbers compared to post covid video game numbers
Wow people played games during quarantine that’s crazy
video games have been bigger than hollywood for a while now iirc. they're easily the most profitable and widespread form of entertainment nowadays. especially now that modern women are by large garbage the average modern man just spends all his time playing vidya.
you wanna compare post covid movie numbers?
It’d just feel more accurate if it was comparing video games numbers from 2019, since that’s the year it’s using for movies
the point is video games are far bigger now than movies ever were.
I understand the point, but you just can’t compare data sets from different years and pretend it means anything
I pirate both movies and video games so I don't contribute to either figure
Why the frick does this even matter?
Frick off OP
THIS
imagine not pirating everything for free and not giving a shit about "sales numbers" or "gross" or "revenues"
Pirates > You
that's cool man. hope you never complain about the state of either industry since your opinion doesn't matter either.
Why does my opinion not matter just because I don't fork over my money like a braindead NPC sheeple?
You are so obsessed with what the mainstream masses do that you are broken.
Meanwhile I can literally download and torrent anything I want for free.
Get fricked.
you don't support the few good games and movies we get yearly so your opinion doesn't matter. unless you play and watch nothing but old games and movies that are impossible to buy now your opinion really doesn't matter and you're a non entity. so your shrieks of anger ring out hollow to nobody.
Why support things when you can get it for free?
I make over 100k as a Golang engineer and I don't have to spend a dime on games movies songs tv shows or anything
Feels good
Unlike you
We are superior to you sheeple consoomers. Deal with it.
Movie bros?
Our response?
Is it me or are pirategays getting more and more insufferable on this board with each passing day?
there is no reason to have quandary with them or be upset so no
I think it started with the whole rarbg incident
how can we apply gacha monetization systems into Cinemaphile - Television & Film?
How much of this is morons buying Madden and FIFA cards or whatever that gay shit is?
a lot less than women playing some match 3 abomination on their phone and being asked "do you want 3 extra moves for $3?"
a friend of my wife's had pretty much everything she could ever want and she threw it all away via mobile game microtransactions. Spent a thousand dollars in a week and doubled down when told to stop by her husband, so he kicked her out.
At this point, do you blame the games or women?
Stupid people over the age of 25 deserve to be exploited. Before then its a bit unethical since people are pretty much animals until their mid-late 20s.
So if your parents were exploited and lost everything, you'd say they deserved it?
Yes and no, I would be more upset at my dad than the video game. He should fricking know better. My mom has early dementia so its my fault for not supervising her properly.
So they don't deserve to be exploited when it's your parents, but do when it's other people? Got it, typical hypocrite.
Not big into reading comprehension are you, moron?
pc/console game provides hundreds of hours of entertainment for $100
easy to spend $100 on a mobile game because its almost all transactions under $5.
movie date cost $50, maybe entertained for 3 hours.
film studios need to lower prices until going to the movies is so cheap people dont even think about the cost.
stop buying snacks fatty. my snub is 5 gp.
People don't go to movies because they suck
forget snacks. corp theaters charge $16 per ticket around me. thats 1000% too much. should be a dollar.
>gambling is a bigger industry than movies
Yes, this will always be the case.
>PC lowest revenue
This is why video games will never be good again. On the bright side, it's for the best that way, it's better to play the MMORPG that is life and improve your God given character than waste your time before a screen.
>insular man children expend more money on the more insular and man childish time sink of the two
Games make so much money of losers with no life, the dopamine rush they get from buying skins and add ons is what gives them purpose and they'll spend their whole paychecks on it.
You cant really do that for movies. which is why movies are Soul and video games are just toys
Yeah, that Barbie movie sure has a lot of soul. Shut the frick up, you tool.
Barbie will be remembered for decades, no one will care about your homosexual game in 2 years from now
why do u exclude blu-ray, streaming and tv shows
>Mobile
This has been true since the arcade days.
In the early 80s, video games were already grossing more than movies and music combined.