jessej07

Great review, and I just learned what concision is! Good word, though I wish instead of using it twice the word "brevity" had been used the second time.

@dantsai Not necessarily true, otherwise investors would have missed out on Google when it rose 50%, then 100%, then 150%, then 500%

But yes, don't just buy stock thinking it will surely go up to $20. Buy stock as a long term holding for your excess cash; never go in debt buying stock or anything foolish thinking it will be quick money. If you sell within a year you pay MASSIVE taxes compared to the horrendous taxes selling a second year (15% I think).

@ChiTownRuler23 Ameritrade, Scottrade, Fidelity, etc.

Same thing happened when Bioshock came out... back then I believe it was around $22 or something (I could be misremembering). This stock increase is only significant insofar as it happened because of the game's popularity and likely reciprocative sales, but in the long term it will only mean something in the context of Take Two's overall business plan.

@BritC

Where are you getting the 2011 figures? The figures you posted for the second 2010 (corrected to 2011) are actually the figures for 2010 (article above).

But I think I get what you're saying... the 7% increase for 2010 is offsetting a similar amount decrease for 2008 to 2009?

@Marked

The extra money is coming from the increase in sales, which is indicative of more quality in the face of higher costs of production (salaries reported in the article). A growing market of video game consumers has grown the industry to sustain these salary levels, it's a good thing.

The news of increased salaries in the games industry is good for the gaming industry, and in turn also good for gamers.

Unless you've started paying $69.99 for games already and for some reason they've forgotten to mark up my games.

This is the second gaming website I've read that has reported this news as if it were bad news. The rising salaries are actually quite good for the games industry, believe it or not.

I thought the "academic report" was pretty short... then I realized the link goes to page 3, not the beginning. Whoops!

So this is why Streets of Gotham got such a light issue last month... I guess that will continue.

It's good to see some more ALWW. I have three of the posters hanging in my game room and have been waiting for this for months now. Too bad I missed the print offering :/

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