Stock Market Movements....A good signFollow

Versus already priced in at Friday market close.

FFXI, single most profitable project in SE history. FFXIV anticipated to be same.

An analysts job is "to know" his market segment. Any analyst worth his salt in this segment knew about beta even if they did not play themselves. As I said earlier - to you, this is a game. TO SE it is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. When version 1 failed, the share price tanked and has never recovered to its earlier levels. Why is it then so hard to believe that a potential success of ARR is a financial goldmine for SE.

Imagine 1m players, each paying $11 per month for the next 6 to 10 years.

If you don't think that affects share price, you really are too naive to school.

Oh, and I am a multi-millionaire playboy game developer/lawyer with an expertise in Origami and a PhD in kicking @rse. I also schooled Van Dam in martial arts and taught Michael Jackson how to dance, and Jordan how to play ball. But in my spare time, I (used to) work as an equities analyst - and yes, I knew my market (not video games unfortunately).

I'm always amazed at how difficult it is to get people to wrap their thoughts around the "business week" of Monday through Friday only that the financial world runs on. (No offense intended to you Teravibe.) I have heard people who had to have the days explicitly verbalized (like "3 BUSINESS days, so Friday, Monday and then Tuesday") before it clicks. I would hate to be the banker that had to explain to someone walking into a bank branch on a Saturday why their $100,000 wire that needs to get somewhere that day can't go out until Monday.

Hah, yeah it's a bit surprising how that works. Especially considering that banks and some credit card companies function under the "business week". You'd think everyone would be aware of how that works, since almost everyone has a bank account and has dealt with creditors at some point.