• Goodeye8@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    Can you give me 3 examples where the developer is monetizing the game like EA or Ubisoft would?

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      6 days ago

      Destiny after the Activision split and before the Sony acquisition. Warframe. Basically the entire mobile market.

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        Destiny after the Activision split

        And who was the CEO of Bungie during that period? Pete Parsons who had a senior marketing job at Microsoft before joining Bungie. Parsons also had no problem laying off hundreds of people at Bungie while continuing to expand his classic car collection. Dude has big publisher energy all over him. In fact he was the person I was thinking of when I said some people will do it for the money.

        Warframe

        First of all, Warframe is a F2P game which means they need SOME sort of a revenue stream. And from what I’ve heard Warframe monetization is one the best on the gaming market. It doesn’t feel like you have to pay to have good time. And they actually removed an accidental slot machine from their game because they didn’t want to incentivize whale behavior.

        Basically the entire mobile market.

        Which is a very different market. Mobile game developers couldn’t even ask $20 for their game let along $60-$70. It’s not comparable to the traditional computer gaming market.