With what marketshare lol. You overestimate how many people run linux / game on it.

Yeah cool that’s an NDA. But pretty much everyone knew what it was being used after it was used. No 50 year conspiracy. Just a secret project.

All / most conspiracies would require that. And if you have like a 10 person friend group, you know that people aren’t capable of keeping secrets like that. There’s a reason why there were the “loose lips sink ships” posters.

Except when you have players that conciously don’t want to play competetive. Playing a single match that doesn’t have any impact on any stats / doesn’t judge you is different than playing a competetive match that is twice as long, and has tryhards that will flame you for playing your favourite character, when it’s not 100% optimal. Also, some people get into the competetive side of games way too deep, up to a detriment. Notebooks with pages of ranking points gained or lost, getting frustrated on losses, even resenting the friends you play with for their skill in a game. Shotcallers that get too deep into it, etc. When you have 3hrs to game a week, you don’t want it to be filled with any of that, you want to play like 15 games / rounds and be done with it.

Cool. Then stick to the vs AI matches. Don’t join a PvP gamemode to expect to play against bots.

Playtime has nothing to do with this. If I pull 800hrs in Garry’s Mod and then 10 people buy Fifa and put in 2hrs each, most of the playtime is mine in an old game. Yet I paid like $10 for it and they spent $600. It also isn’t surprising that older games have more playtime - more time for someone who is “hooked” to play something. There is only 24hrs in a day after all. Also this doesn’t count live service games seperately and games outside of steam - League of Legends comes to mind. Same for Warframe. Huge behemoths that people play for hundreds of hours and spend hundreds of dollars on.

“People” as in maybe 5% of players. Most of the money is in what is being released - live services, forever games. They’re not idiots, they have statistics and know what most players actually pay for.

The entirety of sales for Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, generated less money than a single mount skin in World of Warcraft.

Gatekeeping and art. Name a more iconic duo.

Or it could be two dudes literally exchanging fire.

The first one didn’t sell that well, so doubt it. Which is a shame, since it’s the best controller I ever had. If they removed the buttons and put in a joystick (or removed the right Gaben nipple) it would’ve been perfect.