• ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

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

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      11 days ago

      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.

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        11 days ago

        Then yes, developers have nothing but the best intentions with monetization compared to publishers when you say that the counter examples don’t count.

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          I didn’t say that. I agree that the first one counts and that’s an exception to the rule. The second you better bring out point by point examples of how DE does monetization as horribly as EA or Ubisoft because I’ve heard otherwise. And I think with the third the vast majority of people would agree it doesn’t count.