I always wince when I see what EA pays for acquisitions. I can only assume that their gruesome M A record means that EA needs a price premium when convincing entrepreneurs to sell their baby.
Exactly, the author has a very strange interpretation. Both Riccitiello 's '97-04 and '07-13 stints have been marked by frantic attempts to diversify into digital distribution. This is the guy that bought Pogo, Playfish, Popcap and Firemint. They tried to go head to head with Steam 5 years too late ...
The more alarming thing is that it installs a browser extension so URLs can launch UPlay. A while back they inadvertently shipped a debug version with a backdoor that allowed trivial remote execution. r n r nYou really, really don 't want that team writing something that 's part of ...
Oh man, .plan files. I sorta miss how unprofessional those were. Who can imagine game developers on a AAA-title starting hip-hop style feuds with other developers on the corporate blog these days It 'd be fun to trawl Blue 's News and find out where all the worst offenders are ...
I guess subscriptions have stayed at the same price and running a virtualised server just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper, so at some point the economics start to work again.
The problem is that the playerbase now sees F2P as an inevitable part of an MMO 's lifecycle. Anecdotally, I keep hearing people say I 'll check it out once it goes free to play. How do you convince those people to pay a subscription in the mean time
I wonder if the Binding of Isaac could 've made it through the Steam Greenlight process if it were pitched today I 'm not sure they 'd even allow it to have a listing, seeing as they disallow inappropriate or offensive content, whatever that means.
