Why don't they have a bigger industry besides bioware?

>>714736930 (OP)
You know what Alberta doesn't have anon?
Rats.
They're the only Rat free place in the entire western world because they were forward thinkers.

People talk shit about Alberta anon, but you know what an Alberta citizen has never had? A rat infestation.

They protect their borders.

>>714737057
For a second I thought you were taking a stab at Toronto's actual rat problem due to their garbage levels.

>>714736930 (OP)
Because the government sucks and does not support the industry

>>714737459
After the rest of Canada saw how badly Ubisoft was abusing Quebec's tax breaks to the creatives, they have no incentive to do so.

>>714737416
Well Toronto has a rat problem because they weren't as forward thinking as Albertans to stop their spread if you really think about it.
Thankfully, there are border patrols to stop their rats from their westerly spread.

>>714738015
Alberta has not much of a rat problem because there's zero airports worth a damn to fly to, nor job opportunities. Also that anywhere above Edmonton is full of old people and barely anyone in general.

>>714737057
Not anymore. Smith cut almost all the provincial funding for rat hunting because it was a wasteful socialist policy impacting our struggling pest control industry.

cultural prejudice against all forms of enjoyment that are not related to the following:
>trucks
>hookers
>money
>alcohol + drugs (mostly coke and weed)
>hockey

>>714736930 (OP)
Alberta's average iq is like 78. Once you leave the cities the majority of people are temporary foreign worker slaves from India or the Philippines, and people who genuinely think the earth is flat. Who the fuck is going to make video games?

>>714738621
It's true, if you told someone at a bar here you make video games, you're going to be stomped to death in the parking lot by rig workers in edmonton jerseys.

>>714736930 (OP)
Population is too small and spread out.

>>714737572
Tax breaks paid for by Alberta, oddly enough

>>714738664
>people who genuinely think the earth is flat
the various hicks and esoteric christian groups that make up semi-rural alberta honestly add a lot of character to the region. they're funny

>>714738621
You got nerds in the cities

>>714740969
vastly outnumbered (also theyre generally dilettantish but maybe im just a pseud)

The city of Calgary paid almost half a million CAD for a blue fucking metal ring. If you're expecting creativity from Alberta, you are high.

>>714739245
This is true, but it gets sketchy in places. Take a wrong turn into a range rode along Cowboy Trail and you're gonna get vanished into some psycho old world rape cult.

>>714736930 (OP)
It's pretty weird you get heavy hitters like Cuphead and Balatro coming out of Saskatchewan which is smaller and more spread out while Alberta has pretty much nothing. Only major difference I can think of is that Alberta is much more conservative and corporate.
>>714738664
It can't be that because Albertan students rank as some of the best in the entire world, there's only other small sample sizes like Massachusetts and Singapore that are higher.