Recent content by stealth_nsk

Yeah, it's just when presentations appeared, I posted here about two things - financial results being ok and estimated sales growing. And I got a lot of replies about the first part, but nobody was interested in the second (or just didn't read to second paragraph).

It's interesting that we have several pages already about TT finances, but everyone ignore change in civ franchise sale number.

Based on the amount of work and number of uniques for each civ, you need to multiple their number, not divide.

I don't think I like the idea of optional civ switching. From pure gameplay perspective it looks something like "the worst of both worlds". Like civ switching has its issues, but it solves the problem of early vs. late civs and fits teh age transition concept nicely. If civ switching is...

Thanks! As I understand from presentation (didn't watch the video), they just listed what they did in 3 months from April to June and launching Civ7 on 2 new platforms was just on the list. I don't think Civ7 mention has any correlation with finances - it looks like on Take Two scale it's just...

Yep, that seem to be one. It's "predicted net loss" metric from GAAP. It surely depends on the particular releases, but I'm not sure if GTA is to blame significantly, because the biggest cash flow for Take Two is mobile and Zynga.

That's what SteamDB is for, just check the site https://steamdb.info/changelist/30479350/

No, there's no loss in GAAP exactly for this reason - you can't calculate loss for something which isn't a metric. It's not in the documents and it looks like someone mispronounced some other metric or just made it up. EDIT: Just open the document and point there you think this loss in the GAAP...

And just for the record, I've looked at the document and, of course, there's no such thing as GAAP metric. GAAP is a section with several metrics under it.

You mean accountant just invent those numbers? Like "I have a bad day, let's show some drop"? I understand that there are metrics based on experts estimation, i.e. inflation, but I don't believe such things exist in accounting. If they show a number, they should have a strict math behind it...

Again, I'm not dismissing, I'm trying to understand. How could you calculate loss in 10 different metrics, some of which are total, some of them are monthly and so on? There should be some formula and some more adequate name for this aggregated metric.

I'm not trying to spin it to positive, I'm trying to understand, corporate finances aren't my strongest area of expertise. If GAAP is not a single metric, how could you count a single number loss in it? As I understand GAAP includes things like MRR, recognized revenue, deferred revenue, and so on.

What I mean: Having too many civ abilities wouldn't work in Civ6, because it would make difference between early and late civs even deeper. On the other hand, Civ7 requires rich civ abilities to make civ choice really matter with civ switching.

I haven't watch the stream, just presentation, but... GAAP isn't even a metric, it's a set of standards.

I replied literally in the thread with that poll. Once again, no need to spread the same discussion over all thread on the forum.