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GameFront - SOPA Isn’t the Solution, But Can We At Least Agree There’s A Problem?
Game publishers are caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to battling piracy. If they do nothing, they are essentially ceding a good portion of their sales to pirates who have no intention of ever paying them a dime. If they institute a simple DRM scheme to try and protect their games, some gamers will get annoyed and others will get to work breaking the protection within days or even hours, making it worthless. If they institute a strong DRM scheme, such as Ubisoft’s recent efforts to require a persistent Internet connection to constantly confirm the validity of a played game, it ends up negatively impacting a good many legitimate customers and also cause the esteemed, self-appointed “Internet Representatives of Gaming” to go into a collective hissy fit so large that it ends up costing more sales than it saves.
Raph Koster - Improving F2P. Thanks Ant via Boing Boing.
The thing to understand about the free-to-play market, and its best developers, is that F2P developers treat everything as science. Everything is subject to analysis, and everything is subject to proof, and the business process is about seeking what works. If what works happens to also be an original, innovative, interesting design that meets a checklist set of criteria for being art, well, all the better. But really, it’s about what works.
We have to be honest with ourselves. There is an awful lot of stuff that we have cherished for a long time in the games business which turns out not to work. Sometimes it takes us years to shed the scales from our eyes about the fact that hoary conventions of yore are just that — conventions, mutable and open to change.
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Cutter wrote on Jan 11, 2012, 20:29: The najor problem with the larger devs is they all think they can continue to ask premium prices for games in a shitty economy. Come in a lower initial price point and make it up on volume. And get it on sale ASAP the moment initial sales start to slow. What`s the point of having a product sitting around not selling at $50+ dollars when there would be some movement at $25 and a lot at $10 or less. Hell, things are going to get worse before they ever get better if they ever do, so only a handful of established IPs will get the premium money. The others just need to adapt quicker or perish. They already ARE doing this and have been for years. 25 years ago new video games were around $50. Now they are $50-60. Adjust for inflation and that's a steal. Games cost far more to make now, but they make up the difference between higher development costs and lower (relative) prices through volume as the gaming market is larger. |
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Jan 11, 10:10 |
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Jan 11, 21:51 |
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Jan 11, 10:12 |
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ldonyo |
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Jan 11, 11:45 |
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Jan 11, 11:58 |
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Beamer |
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Jan 11, 14:59 |
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Jan 11, 19:49 |
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Jan 11, 20:29 |
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Cutter |
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Jan 11, 21:14 |
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Jan 11, 23:18 |
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Jan 11, 22:11 |
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Jan 12, 05:09 |
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Jan 12, 13:33 |
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Jan 12, 15:34 |
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Beamer |
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Jan 12, 19:40 |
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Jan 12, 20:47 |
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Beamer |
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Jan 13, 02:24 |
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Jan 13, 08:18 |
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Beamer |
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Jan 12, 15:44 |
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Jan 12, 18:48 |
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Jan 12, 20:17 |
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Jan 12, 16:24 |
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Jan 12, 18:53 |
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theyarecomingforyou |
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theyarecomingforyou |
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theyarecomingforyou |
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