Posted by tony oakden on Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:53:00 EST in
The first in what will probably be a very short series of articles debunking some of the popular gaming myths,
#1 Why the popular idea that giving games away for free and making money out of "added value" content is not the future for game monetization
I've been thinking about the different phases in the design process I follow when designing games. I've got a novel handle on it. I think it's possible to think of each phase in the process as a person with a different personality.
I work in an academic institution that specialises in game development. Id say that our student demographic pretty much matches that in the survey. Personally it makes me sad we don 't get more diversity. But I don 't think it 's for want of trying. We interview everyone who ...
I find it amusing that Play2Win is seen as somehow conflicting with Esports. Isn 't it the athletes who spend the most on equipment, diet, coaching etc who win the most competitions Or the football clubs who spend the most of players Why should computer games be any different
Publicizing your game, and building a community has always been important. This is just not true. In fact it 's only been in the last five to ten years that the onus has shifted onto the developer to publicise and support their products before a publisher or distributor will even ...
So Sony sells shares in a profitable game company, thus presumably losing dividends and growth in the long run to prop up it 's unprofitable games and hardware division in the short term And this is Sony turning it 's fortunes around That 's a new definition of the term ...
