TWIG #219 TakeTwo Zynga Acquisition - perhaps most ill-advised acquisitions in gaming of all time
Deconstructor of Fun
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Is Free-to-Play a Good Idea?
Free-to-play only works if you need ongoing revenue and support in order to pay back the initial development, right? But they are very short-term focused. And yeah, they would pull the plug before they could actually return it. So that puts you in a tough spot, particularly from a AAA perspective,. For Honor, for instance, those smaller games that were premium first, but then also provided a service to those core customers - all started as premium excuse.
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