Comment by frakkingcylons
3 months ago
Gabe gave a talk at my college like 12 or 13 years ago. He explicitly called out the unbelievable number of downloads for Doom as a sign that games were going to be huge.
Fun non-sequitur: the other speaker at that talk went on to become the finance minister of Greece.
Yanis Varoufakis?
Yes he was a visiting professor for like a semester or two.
He was also working for Valve for a while.
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Yanis basically created steam market and the dota/cs economy
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His recent stuff is pretty relevant to tech. Eg https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/category/books/technofeudalis...
but games are a niche, nobody in my circle or extended circle plays video games.
Windows is a niche too.
Your bio says you were formerly a game developer?
Presumably why they are "formerly".
I think you may live in a bubble. By some estimates, the game industry is worth as much as music and film put together