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Marvel Rivals’ Shocking Layoffs, Netease Responds - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.19.25
Wed, 19 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: What happened to the Marvel Rivals development team?
Um, but also in terms of running a business and like reaching out to people and, you know, doing deals to get sponsorships and expanding your business into other areas and all of this stuff. Um, it's simply as much as people are tempted to look at a streamer on camera and be like, yeah, that's them. And this is their whole thing. And they're doing it on their own. Amazing.
It's like, no, they, they almost certainly aren't. If they're pulling like, you know, thousands of viewers per day, uh, they're, they're probably not.
Nathan, a lot of interesting and really insightful stories here. What's the book? Where can people get it? Is it out now? Tell us all the information we need to know about so we can get the kind of funny best friends behind you and checking out your work.
Yeah, yeah. So it's called Stream Big, the triumphs and turmoils of Twitch and the stars behind the screen. It is out now. It came out yesterday. And you can buy it pretty much wherever books are sold. So Amazon, places like that. Let's see. Do y'all have a link in chat? If not, I can drop it.
Put that link in the chat. Let's let the kids know. Of course, the book is now out. You guys can go support it. You guys can learn more about the book. Some really interesting stories in here about the creators that you see all up on the screen, which is great stuff.
There we go. Okay. Y'all dropped it in. Good. um yeah yeah and then uh yeah go ahead and check it out if you want to um if not actually there there are a few excerpts up on various sites there's one on polygon and there's one on my own site aftermath if you want to read some of it uh for free and make up your own mind
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Chapter 2: How does Xbox's new AI model work?
Chapter 3: What insights does Nathan Grayson share about Twitch?
And I was thinking about it last night, actually, like what the Saudi Arabian government has done is kind of, you know, to borrow the title of their development studio, savvy. Like it worked really well in boxing to the point where when they first started bankrolling all of these really big fights, like a lot of articles talked about it. They were like, you know, Saudi Arabia is doing this.
The reason why is clear. They're doing it in order to, again, kind of, you know,
distract or sports wash away from these human rights abuses and like we should be skeptical of this now years down the line it's just accepted everyone's like yep saudi arabia's doing it cool we can we get another big fight um amazing wonderful and like that's how it works they just keep doing it until it's normalized and then people just turn a blind eye like and i i imagine this will just be more of that
You know, the chat says it so well. You are speaking the truth right there. That is how I think we all feel, and it is an eye roll. It sucks. That is the feeling when you read about this group continuing to buy up more and more game publishers and game developers that you might know about. And, yeah, on the opposite side, when I think about Pokemon Go nearing 10 years, right, Nathan?
It is almost 10 years old now. It has probably got the fullest... out of its audience, it might be on more of the decline than the rise. I think after looking back on its history, maybe it's had its fill. Niantic probably couldn't make another Pokemon Go. I think we saw them try to make a number of augmented reality games where you go out there and they just didn't hit as big as Pokemon Go.
So it might be time to get that money and kind of run and, you know, get out of there when you have it. They also have All of our data, right? I think Pokemon Go and Niantic know where I've walked amongst all of the streets and cities that I've lived in and the entire world. So I think they are very well aware of they could have that data and use it now in other areas to go make a bunch of money.
They just wanted to recreate the world using all of our pictures, Mike. It's nothing to fair.
It's a fun little art project. Yeah, exactly.
I don't think they need Pokemon Go anymore because they're going to sell that data somewhere else. So I'm sure they're probably looking at it as, hey, the game had a great rise. It's been a strong 10 years. We couldn't replicate that with others. I don't think it's still there. So let's take this money and run. And yeah, it's sad to see where it's going to.
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