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[–] 85 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Was the point to make money? I figured it was just a publicity stunt/tourism draw

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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    …there’s an inside. It’s a concert venue. They make money by selling people tickets to shows.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Well, if they would just allow Blitzball, problems like this wouldn't happen in the first place.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Pardon me but what is blitzball? Google was less than helpful

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Here's the opening cutscene from Final Fantasy X which features blitzball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWYwmM23Sqs

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    Bitconeeeeeeeeeeect

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    how does the sphere even intend to make money?

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    …there’s an inside. It’s a concert venue. They make money by selling people tickets to shows.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This and the promise that your ad on the outside could go viral on social media. Not sure how long that can keep up until people are tired of the sphere ads, but you know the project owners are hoping it's later rather than sooner.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    People pay to put their content on it, it’s a giant billboard

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I can’t imagine companies are willing to pay enough to offset the ridiculous electricity and maintenance cost on that many lights.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Advertising costs are pretty insane sometimes but I feel this thing has a huge ROI mountain to climb. The lights and power aren’t my main issue, I have to support a few video walls in my line of work and a wall of screens a 10th the size of this thing runs 200k plus, they spent millions building this thing just in screens, not to mention whatever software needed to be made for it. It’s gonna take decades to make profit even if they sell it constantly and suffer almost no failures of equipment

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I think your estimations are reasonable, but some further information: it is not just a normal screen (with normal picel density) at a bigger size, but the pixels are rather far apart. So I would assume that this reduces the cost.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    People like this deserve to be scammed.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    They're just saying words at this point

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Oh, you're dying of stage IV breast cancer? Bitcoin fixes this.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Bring back community-based screens in cities!

    Blinkenlights: Arcade
    mp4 link • YouTube • Piped

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  • [+] 1 point 2 years ago