@pilot25: It's not purely the fault of impatient people, retailers should have been doing WAY more from the get go (as well should Sony) to ensure bots were being blocked and sales were going to legitimate people.
@WalkingPlague: You mean aside from the fact it's literally illegal and what not when it comes to businesses doing it? Not to mention there are usually bylaws about it when it comes to things like concerts, tickets, etc. But yeah, sure - people are just "hating on capitalism". GTFO.
@justthetip: Third one wasn't terrible, it just is very much stand-alone and has almost no connection to the first two, save for a few characters showing up randomly, and none of which you'd really want to see showing up, imo.
Plus the game play was really weird as the attack wheel is brought up with a navigation map for whatever odd ball reason EVERY time you do an attack or spell or what not, so it gets kinda jarring/annoying.
CD Projekt S.A. is the actual name of the company in general. They run gog.com, and they produce video games. Given that their main (and literally only) products they have produced are the Witcher and Witcher based games and Cyberpunk, most people just refer to them by the department responsible for making said games, CD Projekt Red. Because it's part of the same fucking company and that's really all they make, idgit.
You do NOT have to be a majority shareholder to have a say in the company's direction, how they run, to put pressure on it to release certain products. You can literally own 20% of a company and still have a pretty large fucking say in it. Because you OWN 20% OF THE FUCKING COMPANY. Do you own 20% of any company? No? Shut the hell up about your so called "investing" then you wannabe.
As for losing 1 billion and understanding how, it's pretty fucking simplistic - their valuation dropped because their stock price dropped. It's business logic - they "lost" money they didn't actually have, their share prices just dropped which means the overall value of the company dropped as well. It's their POTENTIAL value, were they to sell off the company, blah blah blah. The people who actually got dinged, technically, are those who bought publicly traded stock in said company for a higher price than it currently rests at now, ASSUMING they wanted to sell now. Or they could literally hold onto it and it'll probably regain the "lost" value down the road anyways.
Anything I missed you pompous ass? Or would you like to be schooled some more? Sit your know it all ass down and STFU before you embarrass yourself further.
@cdragon_88: Which just means you think the article is referring to common everyday investors who maybe buy a few hundred shares here and there and are middle class people at best. Not people who literally own large chunks of corporations and actually have controlling interest or say in how a company runs, when they put something out, etc etc.
Which means, for all your bullshit about others intelligence, or lack thereof, about what investors are or do, you yourself are wholly ignorant about the fact that investors can be small, or large. And the larger ones DO actually have a say in things like that, dipshit!! Because, see, they can (and did) pressure CDPR to put the product out in order to get their return in investment on it. They didn't care that it wasn't actually ready for older consoles. They just wanted the game out there so it could start finally generating a return for them.
Hence - they had a say in it ending up being a bad product! You see how that works, or do you want me to draw you a literal map detailing it step by step??
It's always the morons who spout off about how others don't understand something that really have no grasp on it themselves. Big talk, but little to no actual knowledge. So thank you for proving that, even if it did take your slow ass 2 freaking days to finally show it.
@cdragon_88: Awwww, sarcasm, so cute. And pathetic, given you're the one who instigated all this.
So you, what, bought a few hundred stocks here and there and you think that is the same thing as literally owning a huge chunk of a company to the point you can literally dictate how they should be managing it? *pats your head* 5 year old's are so adorably stupid.
And yet you have the gall to claim others have no idea what they are talking about. Tsk tsk.
@cdragon_88: Stupid posts get stupid questions, ass. Your original post mockingly and idiotically stated that people didn't understand what investors are or do.
When confronted on that, you turned HUGELY defensive. Which strongly suggest that you yourself don't have a fucking clue what an investor actually is, or does.
And you pretty much confirmed it with that highly and overly simplistic answer. So thank you for showing me what an idiot you truly are.
Oh, by the way, people understand that just fine. Nothing anyone has said here suggests otherwise. Dipshit troll.
@cdragon_88: Awwww, that's so cute, pretends like I have a reading comprehension issue and then idiotically repeats his bullshit.
All right, let's dumb it down since apparently you're 5 years old. What, pray tell, is it that you think people don't understand about what an investor is or does, yeah?? Try and remember you have a brain inside of your skull and actually answer the question this time instead of repeating some idiotic nonsense. Kthxbai.
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