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KAOS Studios Postmortem

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Gamasutra has a postmortem on the rise and fall of KAOS Studios, the developer formed by the team that created the Desert Combat modification for Battlefield 1942. An interesting element of the story is how the studios expansion resulted in hiring developers with more complete resumes than the managers they were working for and other hurdles they had to overcome to succeed in an increasingly competitive FPS genre.

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Re: KAOS Studios Postmortem

Jul 9, 2012, 05:28

Jerykk

Kajetan wrote on Jul 9, 2012, 05:15: Jerykk wrote on Jul 9, 2012, 04:32: Your view of F2P is pretty outdated. I know, that F2P can be done "right". But thats not the point. The majority (!) of all available F2P games are doing it "wrong", being addictive time sinks to lure the player into spending money on shortcuts. The majority of any entertainment medium is done "wrong." The majority of movies, comics, TV shows, music and games suck. It's the quality minority that matter and that minority is quickly growing in the F2P market. There's nothing inherently wrong with the F2P model. It works well for some types of games and not so well for others. It all comes down to implementation.

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Comment [quote="Jerykk"Jul 9, 2012, 05:28][quote="Kajetan"Jul 9, 2012, 05:15][quote="Jerykk"Jul 9, 2012, 04:32]Your view of F2P is pretty outdated. [/quote] I know, that F2P can be done "right". But thats not the point. The majority (!) of all available F2P games are doing it "wrong", being addictive time sinks to lure the player into spending money on shortcuts. [/quote] The majority of any entertainment medium is done "wrong." The majority of movies, comics, TV shows, music and games suck. It's the quality minority that matter and that minority is quickly growing in the F2P market. There's nothing inherently wrong with the F2P model. It works well for some types of games and not so well for others. It all comes down to implementation. [/quote]

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