I don 't think we want Steam to be more like the apple and google stores. A lot more devs are having commercial success on Steam than in the app stores.
The problem is that f2p dramatically narrows the world of possible game designs. The diversity and quality of the universe of games available will decline if all games must conform to the the same business model of free distribution. As long as there is demand for the kinds of games ...
Blizzard has an extremely high burn rate, D3 didn 't work out, and the WoW train is finally starting to slow down. The Blizzard brand is still extremely valuable, and there 's a ton of great talent there, but they may dip into the red at some point before the ...
This has been touched on by others but Turning their great gameplay into an online service that brings in a steady stream of revenue is not a A shift here, a tweak there. It requires in many cases a dramatically different game design, and even when it doesn't it's a ...
Most of the comments here amount to the industry shouldn't make games that cost 50 million to make. Well, I happen to like games that cost that much to make. I don't understand the complaining about them, as there is no shortage of 99 cent games or 10 games out ...
