> "psst... hey kid, I am gonna let you in on a little secret.
> you want to make a shit load of money... you play the Long-con. Here's how you come up on mad do$h
> 1st: you catch 'em while they are young. 11-14. Give 'em a game. "define their childhood".
> Step 2: disappear for a while. Live your life. They start to miss you.
> Come back a few decades later. Your fan-base are all grown ups now, but now they are the one's making the money.
> Promise them the world. Make them believe that you can bring back those halcyon days of when playing vidya was fun and they didn't have alimony, child-support or a mortgage to pay.
> They'd give you their ATM PIN to recapture that shit.
> But the big score is this...
> Are you ready?
> You never give them what they want.
> Ever.
> You keep them dangling from your string until you bleed them dry.
> That's the REAL sequel to Psychonauts.
> It's a game they have been playing all along but never realized it.
> Dumbfucks."
> t. Tim Schafer, 2017