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> Unlike Blizzard, Google doesn't need an army of artists to keep dollars coming out of the AdWords faucet

hahaha, look at google capex grows

https://csimarket.com/stocks/single_growth_rates.php?code=GO...

Most of Google's increased expenditure is due to headcount increases in efforts to use that enormous advertising profit to expand into other markets. Google could lay off everyone not working on search or ads tomorrow, watch its expenditures crater, and still be making enormous profits.

Needless to say, neither Blizzard nor any other game studio has anywhere near this kind of luxury.

Salary and wages would be recorded as OpEx, not CapEx, correct?

I would imagine the CapEx growth is from data centers and equipment for GCP

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