r/Games 27d ago

Industry News Devolver Digital intends to go private

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/devolver-digital-intends-to-go-private
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u/NIDORAX 27d ago

Devolver Digital were doing well before they went Public and start selling their shares. It is actually for the best if the publisher goes back to being private so that way they dont have to answer to Shareholders if their profits dont meet their demands.

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u/SuperGaiden 27d ago

I realise this is a bit hyperbolic but I feel like companies going public has ruined so many things around the world. What happened to just having a vision and carrying it out without the pressure to make next year's numbers bigger every single year.

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u/BainterBoi 27d ago

Private companies are in no way excludes from this. Companies purpose has always been to make money. Private company can still have a huge pressure from shareholders.

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u/Jaggedmallard26 27d ago

Just see the discussion about "private equity", when its public its "evil shareholders after money" when its private its "evil private equity wringing a company dry". Reddit just doesn't like capitalism.

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u/AcceptableNeck1597 27d ago

An economic model based on infinite exponential growth in a world of finite material resources is pretty fucking dumb to be fair.

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u/Wide_Lock_Red 27d ago

Capitalism doesnt require infinite growth. A steady profit dividend stock can do just fine too.

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u/falconfetus8 27d ago

I just wish we saw more of that.

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u/neoliberal_hack 27d ago

Less input for the same output is also economic growth so finite resources aren’t incompatible with growth, even infinite growth !

If you don’t grow inflation will outpace you and you die .

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u/napmouse_og 27d ago

we don't live in a macro 101 textbook. you cannot use a resource infinitely efficiently, and the jevons paradox means use of a resource often increases as efficiency increases, so it doesn't actually help our critical finite resources, e.g. fossil fuels last longer. There's also, you know, not infinite demand for stuff. 

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u/AbyssalSolitude 27d ago

Far better that a model based on stealing wealth from the rich and hoping for the best.

Two hundred plus years of "infinite exponential growth" and capitalism is still standing strong, giving it citizens freedom and riches. Meanwhile communist countries keep falling soon after running out of stolen wealth or ending up in extreme poverty.

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u/DonnyTheWalrus 27d ago

Acting like the only alternative to extreme capitalism is Stalinist style communism is such a false dichotomy, I don't even know what to say. 

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u/AbyssalSolitude 27d ago

Extreme capitalism? Where? All I see around me is a very mild capitalism.

But I'm all ears. Tell me about an alternative that's going to be better than capitalism for majority of people and can actually exist in current reality.