Freemium will become the dominant force throughout the global games industry, leading experts claim.
Digital specialists at EA and BBC have both told MCV that free is the price that consumers want to buy their games. And that the model – which is currently popular online and on mobile – could even come to the console space.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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... however, I want to play for COMPLETE games! Not games where half the content is sold 5 seconds after release through DLC-milking!
I absolutely don't want to get involved with any kind of micro-transaction kinda deal, where you play as you go along.
I love dellusional bias analysts. Online, mobile, casual game devs and analysts
real devs ignore you.
You make bad games. And I beg to differ that people dont want to pay for games
What we dont want is to be microtransactioned and monetized to death
F2P doesnt work if it isnt a shooter or has a story
Am I the only non tight-arse who doesnt mind paying for games and even thinks games are cheaper than they were 2 decades ago?
I want to pay for games and I want to support the industry.
I do, however think all games "journalist" should work for nothing.
There, see how you like them apples.
Nothing is FREE and that is a FACT.
I haven't played a free game that was't garbage. And freemium will not work for all types of games.