Having found a picture of the chair before it was sat on, this man did the world a favor. It looks like someone bedazzled a crappy chair with very over priced crystals. This chair trades on names like Swarofki and Van Gogh but has no artistic merit of its own.

And before some says “art is subjective” please note my subject view above.

With a game like there has probably been existence market research to account for how much buzz the game will get. They may even be counting on the buzz to sell more copies at full price.

That is exactly how people making these decisions think. Its all numbers to them, there are no people involved in their thinking.

right, so that would put you into the 50% or the lower 25%, but there are people that will buy higher price, and as long as there is 1% willing to buy before the first sale it is worth it for them.

Them sound like fighting words…

On an unrelated note you shouldn’t start anything you are willing to finish

If you assume 25% of player will buy at 80, 50% will buy at $50, and 25% will buy at $20. Per 100 buyers they stand to make $5,000. However if they start at $50 with 75% of buys buying at that price, they will make $4,250. This is about maximizing profit by selling to fans with deep pockets first then discounting latter to captured the rest of the player base.

would also get some varnish and save that for all posterity.

Never really was my problem to begin with. I am going to write my report with or without his information, its just that lot of people will be angry about the report without his information. But even then, its still not my problem because he will be the one that has to address the issues in the report.

If I have to come to you desk to ask for something I have likely lost respect for you and I don’t care that you think I am a whiny removed. Different business units have different priorities, but you should still set the expectation of when you will be able to get to it.

CYA is very important but some time you just need to get shit done and this is where we are at. My manager and director are both working it too.

Musk paid to get Trump into office. Musk is there because of Musk.

When I was on help desk I often talked about meeting the client where they were at in their technical skill level. Sometimes their technical skill level was “Can you click the icon in the bottom left that looks like a window with four pains, and then click the settings icon it looks like a gear”. If mounting a file share was involved I just remoted in, none of the people that called could handle those instructions.