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Perfect World’s utopian worldbuilding in free-to-play MMOs
Player-killing is a tricky subject for international MMOs. In some cultures it’s a taboo practice confined to certain closed-off areas. In others it’s a free-for-all. Sometimes it’s okay to kill someone as long as you ask for...
- Posted 11 years ago
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How large is the online and mobile games market?
Online and mobile gaming are growing rapidly to become ever more powerful and influential markets.
- Posted 13 years ago
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Whales, Dolphins and Minnows – the beating heart of a free-to-play game
The secret to a free-to-play game is not volume. It is not about getting millions of users and relying on only a tiny percentage of that enormous volume to cover your costs. It is about understanding the power-law....
- Posted 13 years ago
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Improve your revenue with the GAMESbrief free-to-play game forecasting spreadsheet
I am a great believer in the “Keep it Simple” principle. I am often asked which metrics I consider most important. Clients and developers seem to expect me to rattle off a list of dozens, scores, maybe...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Recent pronouncements from Nintendo and Sony show they don’t even understand the threat they face
Satoru Iwata and Andrew House have recently talked about how changes in the games industry are a damaging to quality and threaten our industry. The problem is that they are cherry-picking their datapoints, and are missing the bigger...
- Posted 14 years ago
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Guest post: Surprise development yesterday stops January’s new ‘Online Youth Protection’ laws in Germany
This is a guest post from Konstantin Ewald, partner at Osborne Clarke, a law firm with a strong games practice. Games publishers operating in the German market do not now have to apply substantial new German Online...
- Posted 14 years ago
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Guest Post: What you need to know about Youth Protection rules for games in Germany
This is a guest post from Konstantin Ewald, partner at Osborne Clarke, a law firm with a strong games practice. Since this post was written, two German states failed to ratify the law. The situation is currently...
- Posted 14 years ago