>>69229282we dont know if theyre asking questions, but we do know that riku felt the need to reassure them, twice.
>>69229357yes
>>69229334correct take, the stock buyback thing barely gets talked about but it is one of the most important parts of why riku is so fucking pissed off.
>country in recession>stockprice cratering>announce stockbuybacks, to stabilize the price>mid december, stock buyback begins, its successfull>massive drama in a relatively sidebranch craters the stockprice again and therefore the money they put into buybacks is literally burned for no gainThis is way worse in the shortterm than the damage to their reputation, because the latter will probably recover over time if theyre aplogetic and have the cliques head on a plate, maybe just kill the branch entirely to protect the mainmarket.
However, another anon a few days ago pointed out to me that even tho EN is like <20% of their revenue, its the place theyre most likely to expand into, because the JP market is saturated and growth there is unlikely. Internationally is the only place where they can meaningfully grow (in theory)
