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by patio11 5047 days ago
I'm skeptical that they're the main driver of revenue.

Your skepticism is founded on a prediction about a measurable feature of material reality, right? Your prediction is catastrophically inaccurate.

http://casualconnect.org/lectures/games-for-gamers/virtual-g... (Particularly slides 16, 17.)

http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/game-devs-looking-for-revenues-...

http://www.quora.com/Social-Gaming-Startups-and-Companies/Wh...

Feel free to take anyone in the industry out to coffee if you want confirmation.

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Thank you for the links, but in the future don't put words in my mouth and then use them as a basis to insult me.
My inclination when people feel insulted is generally to apologize, but I've re-read my comment twice, and I cannot apologize because I am not contrite. I neither put words in your mouth nor insulted you. You can choose to feel insulted regardless, like you could choose to feel insulted if a teacher said "Nope, there is in fact no carbon in a water molecule -- here's some resources or talk to a chemist and they'll set you straight", but that is entirely under your control. Prior to deciding to become insulted, I might suggest pondering "Do I want to commit to routinely being unhappy when soliciting information about subjects I purport to care about from people who know more about them than I do?"
This happened to me the other day. It's like I can't write ten words of argument on HN anymore without someone fainting dead away.

This seems like a good time to thank you for correcting many of the catastrophically inaccurate things I've thought over the years. ;)