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Telebite posted:Are people really playing these bigger PC game title mobile versions and spending real money on in game microtransactions? Or are they just working off the assumption that "the real money to be made is in mobile gaming right now" and just running with that hoping it'll work? if you believe that any publicity is good publicity, then yes, it did quite well for a time
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Telebite posted:Are people really playing these bigger PC game title mobile versions and spending real money on in game microtransactions? Or are they just working off the assumption that "the real money to be made is in mobile gaming right now" and just running with that hoping it'll work? Waddup I worked in social games for too long and Dungeon Keeper is infamous. FOR BEING BAD. Social/Mobile monetization requires at least some amount of finesse. Like yeah, everyone knows that you gotta pay real life money for the magic purple pony or for a sack of jewel currency or whatever. But you have to have at least a decent free game base to work with, and do a sort of wink wink when you shove ads in front of their faces. Like make it cute or fun or worth your while sort of thing. Dungeon Keeper forgot this and EA turned it into a shambling cobbled-together corpse of a 'game' that required ludicrous and greedy amounts of currency to do basically anything, and shoved ads in your faces on basically every other click. No finesse, no shame, no wink wink, just pure unfiltered "GIVE US YOUR MONEY." This, combined with the much-beloved nostalgia of the original game, pissed off so many players that it gained a sort of infamy as the worst of its breed. You can still find lots of articles and blogs basically making GBS threads all over it. Last I heard years ago, they were still trying to rebrand themselves from the debacle. No clue how they're doing nowadays. Hometown Slime Queen fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Jan 10, 2019 |
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Jan 10, 2019 15:02
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Mobile gaming is just a stepping stone to pachinko
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Telebite posted:Are people really playing these bigger PC game title mobile versions and spending real money on in game microtransactions? Or are they just working off the assumption that "the real money to be made is in mobile gaming right now" and just running with that hoping it'll work? considering these games are designed from the ground up to cost pretty much nothing, it's almost impossible for it to not have worked well for EA.
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Telebite posted:Are people really playing these bigger PC game title mobile versions and spending real money on in game microtransactions? Or are they just working off the assumption that "the real money to be made is in mobile gaming right now" and just running with that hoping it'll work? From what I understand only a minority of people pay for that poo poo but when they do it's like a gambling addiction and they spend tons of money.
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Elderbean posted:From what I understand only a minority of people pay for that poo poo but when they do it's like a gambling addiction and they spend tons of money. there's plenty of stories about people that spent thousands of dollars on mobile poo poo, and those are of course not the major player base, but then you remember that it's not uncommon for someone to spend $50 or so on it over the years, an amount that's vastly higher than the game would have cost were you to pay in advance.
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Elderbean posted:From what I understand only a minority of people pay for that poo poo but when they do it's like a gambling addiction and they spend tons of money. I used to play Puzzles and Dragons and put in a few hundred into the game over a couple years but at the time I didn't buy or play other videogames so it was easy to justify splurging on it. I met someone who also played and he bragged about putting in over $1000 a month on it and over $30k total since he'd started playing. I didn't actually believe in that level of power-whaling before then so my mind was blown. He was soooooooo incredibly proud of this
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We had a lady who would regularly spend over 10k a month on our games. She had her own personal vip customer service rep at her beck and call to keep her happy. The whales are out there.
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Hometown Slime Queen posted:We had a lady who would regularly spend over 10k a month on our games. She had her own personal vip customer service rep at her beck and call to keep her happy. I wish the whales would gently caress off. they are ruining games for everyone else with their micro gluttony.
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Y'know if you want to do something about it, there's another thread right now in GBS about whaling, maybe you could get some ideas going
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iirc in the mobile Dungeon Keeper it took like a day to dig out 1 square or you could rush it for money 1 square Rutibex posted:I wish the whales would gently caress off. they are ruining games for everyone else with their micro gluttony. capitalism is stupid as gently caress lol
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Jan 10, 2019 17:31
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Mobile killed Metal Gear Solid
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Mobile killed the radio star
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Check it out I am a big publisher I will purchase smaller successful studios then force them to do things that are not in their skillset or things that aren't related to why they became successful and then when that doesn't work out I will shut down that studio and farm out the IP as a mobile game. i have shareholders!!
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Sorry, babes. Gotta get that sweet China Mobile moneys. lol we got bought by a Chinese conglomerate and they shut down our studio and the other studios in more first-world areas so they could move production to slave labor in China and Ukraine lol
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Jan 10, 2019 18:14
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the average gamer is much, much worse than the average normal human being. maybe try associating with other people.
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EorayMel posted:All I need now is that animated trailer of dead island where the zombie child dies to the sad piano music and I will own... That was actually well done though, the boob statue, just lmao. Think of all the decisions and approvals that went into that getting produced.
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"... maybe three exposed ribs?"
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Hometown Slime Queen posted:Sorry, babes. Gotta get that sweet China Mobile moneys. The reality of it is much funnier. Game companies are rushing to partner with China mobile ones because its a poo poo load cheaper and easier to get it published in China. If you are trying to get inside without one, you have to pay a fuckton of bribes just to get the game approved. But having an internal company smooths the hand greasing a lot.
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My company was part of a big multi-billion dollar merger, but the whole studio got canned for cheaper labor rates elsewhere. They physically packed up our whole studio equipment and decor to send to China and Ukraine. My chair was specifically molded for my rear end after my years there. I hope the person who got my chair finds my rear end shape entirely uncomfortable.  Edit: Anyways I'm looking forward to Mobile Fallout 76 Hometown Slime Queen fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jan 10, 2019 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flfE-cX8qjM
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Mozi posted:"... maybe three exposed ribs?" Idk JP I think four will have more zazz. More pazinga, you know? Now: boobs. Perfect, huge, untouched? All good with that?
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Hometown Slime Queen posted:My company was part of a big multi-billion dollar merger, but the whole studio got canned for cheaper labor rates elsewhere. They physically packed up our whole studio equipment and decor to send to China and Ukraine. My chair was specifically molded for my rear end after my years there. I hope the person who got my chair finds my rear end shape entirely uncomfortable. Lol, I hope you farted on that seat plenty and it was made of something absorbent.
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sebmojo posted:Idk JP I think four will have more zazz. More pazinga, you know? Now: boobs. Perfect, huge, untouched? All good with that? Sure but can we make em like obviously fake too? Just big perky circles? I think that'd play well with our audience
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 at Randy Pitchford being reported as embezzling 12 million from his gaming company and leaving a thumb drive with a bunch of company info and some underaged porn on it at a dinerThanks for taking some of the heat off Bethesda and Blizzard, man, doing them a real solid! Hometown Slime Queen fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jan 12, 2019 |
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Speaking of lawsuits and Blizzard. Will Blizzard sue whoever it is that's saying they're working on a Warcraft game heavily inspired by Pokemon Go? That can't possibly be true. That just sounds like something someone would make up to be mean to them.
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you know that game company you think is good? they're actually poo poo
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Hometown Slime Queen posted:
Randy is the Elon Musk of the gaming world.
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Lol I'm sure Randy would take that as a huge compliment
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lol the reason he gave after leaving the porn drive at a loving Medieval Times Dinner Theater was because 'only18' the cam girl could squirt and he only had it on there because he was trying to figure out how she did it. games industry men Todd Howard, wanna see those sexy modded skeletons in your closet!
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Hometown Slime Queen posted:
how does that lawsuit even work, doesn't Pitchford own Gearbox? if he wants to take $12 million for himself he just writes himself a check.
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Klyith posted:how does that lawsuit even work, doesn't Pitchford own Gearbox? if he wants to take $12 million for himself he just writes himself a check. Evidently, he took an advance on the profits of Borderlands through a separate holding company of his, thereby avoiding Gearbox's profit splitting setup. In other words, he took 12 million just for himself, as opposed to dividing it up within the company like he was supposed to.
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These charges are all laid against him by a former lawyer and friend of Pitchford's who was ALSO rumored to have stolen like 3 mil from Gearbox? So it's all a clusterfuck of horrible people accusing horrible people. Although now Pitchford is the latest gameman who's been a weird sex pest all along, too. It's all amazing. Jesus christ, Gearbox.
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/gearbox-ceo-allegedly-kept-underage-porn-on-usb-stick-new-lawsuit-alleges/ Callender's suit alleges that Pitchford "breached his fiduciary duties by exploiting Gearbox employees and property to fund Pitchford’s private cravings," and one portion of the suit makes two sensational accusations about Pitchford's behavior: that he accidentally left a selection of "underage" pornography on a USB stick at a restaurant, and that he used his company's money to host parties where "adult men have reportedly exposed themselves to minors, to the amusement of Pitchford."
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And said USB stick was returned to the creep by restaurant staff, fully aware of what's on it, in exchange for video game merch. Holy poo poo i hope they all go to jail.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Holy poo poo i hope they all go to jail. I think the article said she was a cam girl from a barely 18 site. You can't bust him for being a creep!
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khwarezm posted:the sequel to Alien Isolation is going to be some loving mobile poo poo. I don't want that!
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Inept posted:lol it was called "zombie bait edition" this is way too loving creepy they made sure the tits are the only part not destroyed or bloodied welcome to the modern game industry where the chinese hire slaves to make the games and the americans hire ed kemper to make the pre-order toys
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True unpopular opinion Alien Isolation sucked nut, was way too long, spent more time on the annoying Androids than Alien, and had really simplistic stealth mechanics with a boring rear end story and the Alien stopped being scary because it was just an annoying brick wall instead of a threatening presence. Also lmfao the save system that was supposed to create tension broke the game. It would reset the Alien's AI if you loaded so you could do an objective, save, then load and instead of searching for you the Alien's AI would instead reset and default to its grace period where it would stay hidden and not emerge for about fifteen minutes unless you made too much noise. You could literally avoid the Alien for 90% of the game bar scripted appearances using this trick if you just avoided running and walked everywhere. Oh yeah, that was the other problem, game was nothing but walking from one objective to another while engaging in stealth gameplay that was more simplistic and less engaging than 1998's Thief.
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JebanyPedal posted:True unpopular opinion Alien Isolation sucked nut, was way too long, spent more time on the annoying Androids than Alien, and had really simplistic stealth mechanics with a boring rear end story and the Alien stopped being scary because it was just an annoying brick wall instead of a threatening presence. Your first and third paragraphs aren't wrong, but your second paragraph is dumb as poo poo. Yeah of course you can break a game by repeatedly spamming a technique that doesn't ever arise through organic gameplay. Jesus christ.
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