They've continually devalued Sunday ticket as a product. I'm surprised Google isn't more pissed about it, as they paid a fuck load for the rights to be the exclusive seller.
A lot of the problem is lack of regulation and enforcement. These apps play fast and loose with self exclusion and identifying problem gamblers, with no real consequences. They also tend to ban or heavily limit anyone who wins big. There's also been a few stories of sports books canceling bets as obvious errors to avoid large payouts.
It would be a lot better if regulation more closely aligned with that of alcohol.
Gamepass never made sense to me as a product. Games make most their sales money in the first few months, but MS gave them away as day 1 additions. Games are heavily monetized with dlc, but a rotating catalog makes buying any less desirable since you could lose access unless you bought the game as well. The subscription seemed to push sales at you, but that's a turn off for consumers. The used game market was still a thing, a 6 month subscription is less value than spending the same on a handful of games to keep permanently.
I'm not sure how it could succeed unless they stopped selling games at all for Xbox, which would probably kill it faster.
Barrels are a wear item on these things, the Abrahams replaces a barrel at 1500 shots. While they may not lose many mechanisms, there's still passive demand for barrels.
There isn't an incumbent in this race. The seat is held by a Democrat that is retiring.
Kill with focused global efforts including nukes, most things. Kill in a firefight with conventional weapons, guardsmen, rippers, genestealer, gaunts, sister repentia, ork boyz, or anything else at roughly that level.
P is for Pterodactyl.
99% of mold gives humans something between mild discomfort and death. The remaining 1% tastes good with butter.
Steam is a platform that happens to also have a storefront. Other companies are building storefronts and hoping that's enough.
If you can't provide fast downloads, cloud saves synced across devices, achievements, mod support, friends lists, and multiplayer support, it's not a real option. Being cheaper or having some exclusives aren't attractive. Gog already has the drm free angle to be a legitimate competitor.
Actually pretty common as most people would subconsciously hit the same areas each time.
A broken clock is right twice a day, but a clock running backwards is right four times a day.
Japan cast cat girl, it was super effective. All knowledge of atrocities was erased from western nations.