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Ernest, the main developer of Kbin, has given an explanation of what has happened: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/544021/So-what-s-the-status-on-the-update-edit-ernest-responded#entry-comment-3006120

It did not sell at full price everywhere.

And again, it has to NET $2 billion, not gross. You are simply deceiving yourself if you think it is guaranteed to make money.

Not everything sold at full price. By six month, it was probably closer to 50M. GTA Online has a much higher cost basis. It is not a magic trick to generate free cash. Again, they need to NET $2 billion, not gross $2 billion.

Again, GTA6 really has to match the success of GTA5 or else it will lose money. You don’t know if it can.

Actually no. They probably did not gross $2 billion until they sold around 40-50 million copies.

GTA6 will have to fully match the success of GTA5 to be a success. That is the risk here.

That’s grossing $2 billion. But they’ll still lose money at that point. They will have to net $2 billion, which won’t happen until they sell like $4 billion or more.

It will be the most expensive game in history, with a reputed development budget of around $2 billion. Anyone can do the math and realize that it would have to sell in ridiculous numbers to make that up. If it doesn’t capture the magic of past GTA releases, it will be a massive money loser.

@dryguy The algorithm needs to be improved. It needs to adjust for the number of boosts/favorites that large communities get. You should be seeing posts from all of the subs you are subscribed too and not just the most popular ones.

You mean the Fediverse as a whole, not any one specific platform? In that case yes. But it won’t be just Lemmy.world or even all of the Lemmy instances. It will be all the platforms that use the ActivityPub protocol that in combination will replace Reddit.

Pretty much. Only large scale solutions will have any chance of working. A lot of it implies stuff like recycling or figure out ways of turning waste into something non-harmful. So anything you see on an individual level is pretty much guaranteed to be pointless.