dumb decision to dedicate yourself to a proprietary game’s little microtransaction market now aint it.
It sounds harsh, but it is very risky to put all your eggs in one basket. I feel the same way whenever I read about someone whose livelihood apparently depends on income from YouTube and some arbitrary/automated decision by Google cuts off their revenue. The actual fix is to have employment contracts in place so this can’t happen (which Google would have to be forced into as many places have forced the likes of Uber to treat their employees as employees), but for the moment don’t let your income rely on empty words and good will!
The actual fix is to have employment contracts in place
No, if you want to be self employed (YouTube creator, digital marketplace owner, etc), you need to diversify your revenue streams. For a YouTuber, perhaps stream on Twitch, write up summaries of videos on an ad-supported or subscription based site, sell merch, etc. If you run a digital marketplace, sell digital content for multiple games from different publishers, and if possible, make your own digital content to sell. And so on.
The less diversification you have, the more formal and binding the contracts need to be. If YouTube wants you to be exclusive, they’ll need to pay upfront for the opportunity cost you’ll incur from not entertaining other options, as at as at least have a severance package if they cut your contract short to cover the transition period to a different platform.
You don’t need an employment contract to avoid this type of issue, and in many cases employment contracts are less valuable than proper diversification if your role can be diversified.
I mean, aren’t we all putting our eggs into one basket with our jobs? Isn’t that what all of us are doing, relying on good words and will of our employers? Most of us work for a company that could decide to get rid of us on a whim. “At will” employment is a thing in some places where they can literally just decide to fire you if they want. Sure, it seems silly to make a living off a video game, but any company could just as easily make just as stupid of decisions.
“At will employment” is not a thing in the civilised world, places with passable employee protection laws ensure that you can’t be fired without reason and you will be compensated if you do lose your job.
Lucky for the people in those places, apparently America isn’t civilized enough. My point still stands though I think, most of us are relying on things outside of our control for a paycheck
dumb decision to dedicate yourself to a proprietary game’s little microtransaction market now aint it.
Owners of CSGO(CS2) 3rd party marketplaces seem to be making a killing off of fees, so it can be done successfully. But I doubt that Rocket League trading sites see anywhere near the volume of CS2 sites.
Game went to shit. Last played it in mid-February.
I believe this will only aid in killing of an once successful video game and esport.Yeah MTX, loot boxes and in-game shops are bad but they were very unobtrusive. And since all the big-wallet players are now leaving to spend less money only the kids will remain or not so well-off will remain and as a last action they will also leave.
I give it 5 years until it’s unrelevant.
I mean the game is exactly the same… Yeah the cosmetics and so on yeah… But the gameplay and all is the same, I guess you could complain about extra game modes or new stuff I guess but if you like the core gameplay is still there.
I agree that being bought by Epic was bad… for multiple reasons specially for people that wanted cosmetics for okay prices. Surprised they kept it working on Steam as I expected “here you have a code and go play on our store” although that might be more Steam terms or something than them doing it nicely.
Similar case with fall guys being bought but at least in that case it made sense since the games was going to die…and at least they could get something and make it live for longer with that deal.
I mean the game is exactly the same…
Tbf the game skill ceiling went beyond what I was willing to invest in the game vs what the player base does and the reward too little to keep me enganged. Played around 930h around lower diamond level since season 2 or 3 (basically the last season with the Prospect/Silver/Gold league system)
It made me sad Rocket League went this direction. They have enormous potential in eSports with their easy to understand gameplay and you can easily see someone is good on Rocket League even if you’re not playing it.
I even made some good lasting unexpected friendship in the early days of 2015-2016 just playing with the mic on.
So milk the last remaining moments?
Absolutely. Last I remember the shop (as a replacement to actual key/crates systems) had pretty expensive prices but you got what youwanted as a trade off.
Epic tries to milk what they can and probably try to end it for good (sadly) in the long run.
My retirement investment strategy is that I only purchase one companies stock.
This is why I had my sell limit at $420.69, it was a known quantity and far beyond where I thought the stock should have been. Traded options on the way down, made a good chunk (then wasted it all like a nutsack).
So he’ll never build another product again?
