"Nostos is the latest in a string of scrapped games built with Improbable’s SpatialOS software, raising questions about a technology that won a $500m investment from SoftBank in 2017, then the biggest ever investment into a UK start-up. "
Conclusión: " Improbable intends to release later this year the game developed by Midwinter called Scavengers.
It is not the massive world filled with thousands of players of which Narula had long dreamt.
Rather, Scavengers is a battle-royale game, with up to 60 players in each match, fewer than the 100 accommodated by the hit game Fortnite.
Narula’s lofty ambition to build The Matrix appears to have given way to a more anodyne mission. “We provide better ways to make multiplayer games,” Improbable’s website says today.
“It’s a far cry from the big idea brand they once had,” said Mike Cook, a games developer and artificial intelligence researcher at Queen Mary University of London. "
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El mercado está saturado de empresas tecnológicas que prometen el oro y el moro y luego se quedan en nada.
También hay que reflexionar sobre lo que ha sucedido con Archegos y las pérdidas multimillonarias que ha ocasionado a varios bancos, entre ellos Credit Suisse y Nomura.
Además los bancos habían prestado a un "inversor" que ya había tenido problemas por uso de información privilegiada:
" In 2012, New York-based hedge fund Tiger Asia Management pleaded guilty to using inside information to trade Chinese bank stocks, resulting in a massive settlement with US regulators.
It marked a fall from grace for its founder Bill Hwang, one of the so-called “Tiger Cub” veterans of Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management fund. "
" In theory Hwang might have found himself permanently blacklisted by investment banks everywhere. But just 12 months after he was forced to return money to investors, Hwang was back in the game. He set up a secretive new family office called Archegos Capital Management. And soon many of the world’s top investment banks were fiercely competing for its business. "
Si las apuestas de Bill Hwang hubieran salido bien pues todo habría sido maravilloso, pero esto ha saltado por los aires, y habrá muchos otros casos parecidos de los que no nos enteramos.
De hecho los bancos que se van a apuntar las pérdidas han sido todavía más irresponsables que quien las ha provocado, pues le han permitido abrir posiciones por 30.000 millones de dólares sabiendo el historial que tenía, y que fue investigado por los supervisores americanos..
" A number of the banks were lending to Archegos so that it was as much as eight times levered, meaning for every one stock the fund bought, the bank would lend it seven more, according to people familiar with the matter. In some trades, leverage ratios may have hit as high as 20 times, one person with knowledge of the fund said. "
Por cada acción que Archegos compraba, por ejemplo en empresas "tecnológicas", los bancos le prestaban 7 acciones más y en algunos trades el ratio de apalancamiento era de x 20.
