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John Carmack is spent.
For what it's worth, Richard Garfield also created Artifact.
Niantic also created Wizards Unite.
Markus Persson made some videos of some kind of Stargate Universe spaceship game with a programmable 16 bit computer. It sounded cool, but people hated it before it was even released.
There are 100 billionaire 35-45 yo men with fond memories of Civilization, Diablo, Halo trying to make video games hiring the top game designers. And they get flops!
> are a handful of contenders in the video game entertainment industry who are really capable of creating
It's just super really fucking risky. It's not this, VC thing where you are just putting out winners over and over again.
There are no Marc Lores. There's no exit strategy for Marc Lores. And if you don't have any idea what I'm saying or talking about at this point, if you're like, who the fuck is Marc Lore, you are not comprehending how far you are from understanding the challenge of making these games with huge audiences that last for years.
You are just as likely to get a hit from an extremely talented and lucky unknown as you are from Richard fucking Garfield.
The mistake wasn't taking a risk. Better he make video games than a payment system or a crypto trading platform. The mistake is that John Carmack is a dick.
When you reach 100m users, the ideas get limited. C'est la vie.
VRChat avatars have personality. On hardware now 6 years old.
People are reacting to the lack of personality, not the lack of immersion.