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.
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 ...
I think saying that Kickstarter is high risk is a bit of an exaggeration. I think it is fair to say that to stand any chance of getting funded a developer needs to put a lot of effort into the campaign so it can 't be considered to be free ...
except the better F2P usually don 't make enough money to be viable. Bahamut does make money which is why it 's structured that way. I hate games like this too but developers are finding out the hard way that giving away a game which is fun to play, no ...
