(01-28-2016, 03:13 PM)Codie Wrote: (01-27-2016, 01:26 PM)ACSAPA Wrote: Gaming means playing video games, so owning a gaming company means you pay a bunch of people to sit around playing video games.
As for a video game company , I'd probably make mostly funny games like Psychonauts. I think there are a lot of serious games now where the life or death of millions of people is at stake and I'd like to bring back comedy games similar to Conker or Neverdead.
The last really funny game I played was Deadpool. I heard that South Park :The Stick of Truth was amusing. I miss humor in games. In the 1990s ,it seems like there were more funny games.
You would think that. Â In reality Bill Gates probably doesn't play many video games. Â He owns Xbox and a few other companies. Â Not many owners ever get to play their creations in its prime. Â He might have picked up a controller for releases and so on, but I don't think he plays a lot of video games. Â He hires CEOs and lets it go from there.
That is not what I am talking about. I am saying that the title of the thread doesn't make sense to me.
The title says "gaming company".  Microsoft makes hardware and software, they do not make "gaming".
Gaming is the activity that you do after you buy the hardware and software.
Hideo Kojima makes games, he is not paid to be a gamer, therefore he is/has a game developer or software company , not a " gaming company".
The only actual gaming companies I know of are Major League Gaming, Machinima and Rooster Teeth because they are paid for gaming. They are paid to play video games professionally.
So....if I had a gaming company , I would try to recruit world class gamers on my team and win some tournaments.
If the OP meant video game company, game developer or software company, they should have just said that.
Using the term "gaming company" is like calling Taco Bell an eating company ,or Nike a wearing company.