I think the issue with the experimentation is that they still don't have an obvious golden goose yet. Google has been able to fuck around with experiments because search/ads are always still there to carry the team and provide an infinite money spigot, even if the experiments mostly fail. But OpenAI doesn't really have an equivalent for that.

Basically the same reason many other genres (e.g. roguelites) are dominated by little indie studios.

I do wonder if there's data on this, though.

At the same time, it's not realistic to aim for that level of appeal with every game. Most games are going to aim for some sort of niche, just like any other media.

And yeah most romance novels are trashy, but it's not like milslop Clancyfics are better. Most people just want some shallow entertainment and that's fine.

> Another example would be Stardew Valley, or Undertale, which had a huge female following (and sales to match) but had to come out of the indie scene, because all these super politically progressive AAA gaming companies somehow are worse at making things that appeal to women than either companies that existed before, or random indies coming from outside the professional world.

Boomer shooters also came out of the indie space. Survival craft hits? Generally indies. There's plenty of genres that, for whatever reason, have been largely ignored by the biggies.

But other platforms really are rather pathetic in terms of feature set compared to Steam. Steam has a bajillion features, and it looks like other platforms aren't even trying to compete to provide a good user experience.

The other thing you can do is having senior leadership occasionally try the product themselves and talk directly to customers (especially ones that have problems).

Often, problems remain because of bureaucratic hurdles, or disputes between different fiefdoms: there's a feature that needs teams X and Y to improve, but it would only help the internal metrics for team X, so team Y doesn't give a shit and drags their feet. Leaders who are sufficiently high in the hierarchy can cut through these sorts of problems if they know and care.

Housing growth is necessary, but it should also be spread out.

It's not just that they're focused on other things -- some of which I agree with, to be clear, as I'm a social Democrat -- they really believe that supply and demand won't work.

Especially when you threw out some lame strawman about Somalia. Surely you can do better than that?

They can be in a small town in the region, which is where the school and liquor store probably already are.

No amount of evidence will convince these people, because they already made up their mind ahead of time: their ideology says the market can't help, so the market can't help, period. Any evidence to the contrary is a plot by billionaires or something.