As an aside, I don't even know what this game has netted. I just see what the VC's have given him. Maybe I missed it?
It says $1m last year. My guess is that the VC money is to be used for marketing and development of similar games.
I don't know why anyone would think that games are going away; humans have always showed an interest in playing games going back thousands of years. Games are just becoming more advanced. In the coming decades we will probably see virtual reality and that will take gaming to a whole new level; you will be able to enter the actual game world instead of just controlling a character; that will be so awesome. It might be so addictive that people won't ever want to leave it.
Humans are social creatures. A human who doesn't care about socializing is one that is defective. Not caring about having friends is not a good thing as we've evolved to be social creatures and we rely on society for so many things; you can't just be a hermit and ignore people like he's doing for very long without developing some serious issues. Most if not all school shooters are the loner types.
I couldn't disagree more. Real friends stick around even if you don't have a penny to your name. The kind of people that are your friends only because you're wealthy are not your real friends; they're just looking for a handout. Look what happened to MC Hammer; he was a millionaire but then he lost it all by giving money and gifts to his "friends", most of whom disappeared the moment he became bankrupt. They were just friendly with him because he bought them expensive things, not because they actually cared about him.
You sound jealous, broke (and stupid). It is about making sacrifices. Not many successful businesses were built by leaders who weren't willing to put in long hours and put aside other hobbies and activities. As he says:
"You could argue that's not healthy. But you get older and your kids have soccer games and you work with charities and those things make you a whole person. But there's something to be said for just putting the blinders on and being able to focus."
"It's not so much guilt, it's more like fear, probably," he said. "Every second I'm not spending building SCVNGR is a second that someone else could spend building the game layer."