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    "'Until you kiss our asses, you're not going anywhere,' [was the message]. In a lot of ways, the game business started becoming that. It's not personalities and it's not companies. It's capitalism. So you get that scale and now it gets more ruthless. These are public companies. This is Wall Street" - Lorne Lanning in a GamesIndustry.biz interview, being all anti-capitalistic and stuff.
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      Editing … "So what is a sustainable model? Well, don't have investors. Don't have an IPO. Don't go public." I don't know why companies go public except for random money pl0x. Because when you do is when you become like banker scum instead of whatever service or product you provided until that point. Plus it's ridiculous to hear stories of Nintendo or other companies having to coddle clueless shareholders.
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      Editing … "Needless to say, the margins are far better with digital too. Lanning used to make $7 off a $60 game and now he could make that same $7 on a $10 game." Jesus.
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