The feeling of buying things
Sasha Aickin, former CTO at Redfin, shares some financial advice from his grandmother:
“When you buy something cheap and bad, the best you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it. When you buy something expensive and good, the worst you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it.”
So do we choose tech route.
In 2019, after I had known that several indie game studios use Unreal as their major game engine, and they make great games than ever, I brought the news back to my company. Despite I told them the trend, the 5% license fee still block their imaginations about their next level of products. They all rush to calculate how many costs we’ll need to pay and describe what products can make the most money in their market. They are damn right in 2019, so I can’t pursue them, and I don’t want to do this neither.
They feel the best scenario when they buy the outdated tech to serve the market and then they forget what they should be.
Our competitors overtake us after 3 years. It doesn’t mean that they win us at today. When they buy the expensive and good solution to make their game, the worst time is in the same time 3 years ago, and then they start making progress better and better. Now we’re rushing to make a “great” plan with long-term purpose of overtaking them again, but if we keep thinking that what should we do can get more profits without investing something “expensive and good”, I wonder that if we can get rid of the curse of overtaken by our competitors.