Synth Potato🥔 on Revenue

Hot take: Online gaming should be completely free, this is a completely arbitrary price with no real benefit. There is no "market condition" that should result in what is a free service on PC, to consistently increase in price just because you're on console.

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Why it worked

Opens by contradicting a common belief, which makes readers stop to disagree or agree.
Contradicts something the audience already believes, which stops the scroll.
Gives away something genuinely useful before asking for anything.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
Opens on a negative, which reads as a warning and is harder to ignore than a claim.
Quotes someone directly, which makes the moment concrete rather than summarised.

The mechanics

Hook: Contrarian opener
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: plain, matter-of-fact
Mechanisms: Pattern interrupt, Reciprocity
Written for: Founders and operators

Analysis by ViralLoop — not written by the original author.

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