• LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I wonder what happens when the last whale has been milked dry. With the number of shitty cash grab games out there with heinous monetization, surely the ecosystem reaches a tipping point where there literally just isn’t enough money to go around, both because the whales themselves run out and the remaining number gets spread too thin among too many Clash of Clans, FIFAs and Diablo Immortals. Do you think we’re going to start seeing real effort in those spaces to appeal to players again, or do they just implode because nobody wants to serve a declining market?

    • Urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 years ago

      I wonder what happens when the last whale has been milked dry.

      I have some bad news for you friend.

      I work at a casino. There is no end of whales. There are whales that are rich enough to sustain their habits and spend more than you or I could morally spend if we had the means. Then, there are whales that spend outside their means, burn out, and are replaced by a new person who does the same thing.

      When a whale (highroller) stops coming, we usually assume they’ve gone to one of our competitor’s casinos.

      I see no reason why this wouldn’t apply to real-money transactions in video games. It’s just another casino.