It depends on category of gambling.
For poker there’s usually a standalone price going to the organiser, for betting it’s often at 95% return rates.
Scratch cards tho, those fuckers goes low. Lotteries, 60% is not uncommon, but people like it at the very slight off chance they take the big price.
So it would require a pretty big breakdown of how many plays each category of gambling
I used to play Axis and Allies with a roommate, we would routinely have a game on the living room table and play bits of it at a time.
That game’s a monster
I’ve seen demos/open betas have become a lot more common in the past year. So I do wonder if that’s changing this paradigm a bit
If you have no marketing budget, then shipping keys to streamers. Like small streamers, with 10 concurrent viewers, they might actually install it and play the game.
That’s 10 more people exposed to the game. Now send out 10.000 of these keys, even if 1% that’d be 100 streamers, actually play it. That’s expose to 1000 people, if you’re lucky that’s 20 extra buyers - But it’s also buyers way more likely to leave a positive review, given they’ve already seen the gameplay loop before buying it.
The early reviews are incredibly important for Steam to determine whether or not it should boost visibility of the game
I believe the games which are openeded and only have whatever goals you set yourself, such as Paradox Map games or Cities Skylines are contenders for rarest achievements as well.
Especially when they have updates and new achievements added as time passes.
For Crusader Kings three as an example, most people can probably found the Dai Viet Empire - But only 0.3% of players has the achievement
Or that we were children with gameboys
If people begin pumping even more more games out, the only way really to combat the shit is by increasing the fee to be marketed - It’s 100$ on steam today, but is given back if the game makes 1000$ in sales.
It would be bad for everyone, especially smaller devs from poorer countries if this fee were increased further. But it’s a pretty effective guardrail against bad and miniscule games
I do not agree Microsoft is in that category, but they’re mainly a B2B player today.
A little less than 20% of revenue per earnings '25 was from consumers - The rest for business offerings. I’m curious to hear which selection of companies you consider the main ones. Because Microsoft is still top 5 within Tech when it comes to power.
Google hit as big a market share as they could, so their way to grow the search machine was to increase the market.
How do you increase the market? By pushing the most relevant links further back, so people have to go to page 2, 3 or 4. So it’s unfortunately the best financial decision, short term, to enshittify their main product
It’s mostly all of the generated by LLM websites that’s annoying to shift through
Swiss chocolate isn’t the good stuff, somehow it’s branded so people feel so.
If you’re going for the absolute top, local chocolateries is the desire - They’re good all over the continent.
But the step just underneath handmade artisan chocolate is Amedei and Neuhaus - Italian and Belgian respectively.
When we get into general higher consumer grade chocolate, then Swedish and Finnish chocolate tends to mock Swiss chocolate. Marabou and Frazer over Lindt any day of the week.
Toms and Pergale floors for slightly fancier stuff
Chocolate isn’t as dominated by singular countries as some people think, but Swiss products are generally over priced and better products can usually be found within Europe
Veritasium themselves has a video on the topic, they’ve indeed sold parts to investors
And then we have insanity like Instagram, where the logo opens a separate area
How the hell does the logo ever load anything but the home screen?