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Gaming is both a hit business and a fad business — only two models work

Shaan's mental model for gaming: a game can flop or be a hit out of the gate (hit business), and even a hit can be a short-lived fad or a sticky League-of-Legends-style franchise (fad business). The only two viable studio models are landing a sticky non-fad hit, or churning out a stream of quick fad hits.

“Games struggle because games are both a hit business and a fad business, and people can confuse those two. And it's like the hit business, as in your game just out the gate could be a flop or a hit, but even if it's a hit, it could then be a fad hit, or it could be a long-lasting League of Legends type of hit, which is super sticky.”
EP 88 · 31:38 · SHAAN
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mfmindex.com№ 0088-1898
Story

Discord was the first unbundling of Reddit

Greg argues Discord grew by colonizing Reddit communities: it started in the League of Legends subreddit, recruited mods from that network, then spread horizontally to CS:GO and Dota by building exactly what those communities already needed.

“My belief is that since, you know, 2016-ish, Discord was the first example of the unbundling of Reddit. Then Discord was built on top of Reddit. It started in the League of Legends subreddit. It was a product for that community. Then they went to CS:GO, then they went to Dota. They just basically looked at what they needed. They spread themselves on top of that network. They recruited mods from that network and kind of went horizontally.”
EP 87 · 7:31 · GREG ISENBERG
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mfmindex.com№ 0087-451