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This Week In The Business: Getting Harder
QUOTE | “Holy fuck, it’s got harder.” – Developer Cliff Harris, who just launched Gratutitous Space Battles 2 on Steam, talking about the big difference between releasing a game in 2013 and releasing a game today Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “The opportunity to create a $1…
By Steve Peterson Published April 25, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: No Time For Consoles
QUOTE | “The real issue is by 2019 whether Sony and Microsoft will still be relevant in the game space.” – Analyst David Cole, talking about his company’s new global industry report which lowers their forecast for consoles and raises it for PC and mobile games Elsewhere in the business of video games this past…
By Steve Peterson Published April 18, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: That Mad MOBA Money
STAT | $501 million – Amount of money that MOBAs will earn in the USA this year, according to EEDAR; this will be greater the the $499 million expected from MMORPGs, and the $237 million expected from shooters Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “In the early days…
By Steve Peterson Published April 4, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: Basically Dead
QUOTE | “Most developers never really made money. They were able to stay in the business. But the way the deals were structured, they were basically dead.” – Oddworld founder Lorne Lanning, talking about why capitalism is killing games Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “At BioWare, we…
By Steve Peterson Published March 28, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: Afraid Of Making Games
QUOTE | “I’m scared as a game developer to think about making a game.” – Mike Capps, former president of Epic Games, talking about how hard it is to make a hit game these days and why he’s not starting a new game studio Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week ……
By Steve Peterson Published March 21, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: A Young Man’s Game
QUOTE | “It has become harder and harder for me to find jobs, and particularly after I got past 50 years old.” – 59-year-old designer David Mullich, talking with other game industry veterans about the pervasive age prejudice in the game industry Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE |…
By Steve Peterson Published March 14, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: Fallen Gods
QUOTE | “Suddenly we’re not gods any more…There are gods, and now we just license their engines.” – Positech’s Cliff Harris, talking about why he hates Unity and other middleware, preferring that indies write their own engines Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “In reality, 90 percent of…
By Steve Peterson Published March 7, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: Great Job, Sega
QUOTE | “We go to Sega and the board turned it down, which I thought was the stupidest decision ever made in the history of business.” – Former Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske, talking about the deal he had with Sony to share in the development of a new console Elsewhere in the business…
By Steve Peterson Published February 28, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: Taking Aim At Metacritic
QUOTE | “Nobody here ever bothers about Metacritic. We think of it as irrelevant, quite frankly. We only concentrate on what the users think.” – Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley, explaining why they don’t worry about Sniper Elite getting low scores from reviewers Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE |…
By Steve Peterson Published February 21, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: He Hates These Cans
QUOTE | “I’m going to stop doing press and I’m going to stop talking about games completely.” – Veteran designer Peter Molyneux, responding to the “terrible and awful, emotional time over the last three days” after he admitted failing to deliver his Godus Kickstarter promises Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week…
By Steve Peterson Published February 14, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: You Do Not Talk About Fail Club
QUOTE | “We’re trying, as an industry, we’re trying so fucking hard to just be fine. We talk about our successes and our achievements, but we shun mentioning our failures.” – Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail, talking about what’s right and wrong with the game industry in a recent blog post Elsewhere in the business of video…
By Steve Peterson Published February 7, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: Free-To-Start
QUOTE | “As we look to the future, we believe a very big part of our player base will expect a free-to-start experience.” – EA CEO Andrew Wilson, talking about how EA is considering ways to let people try games for free with a variety of business models Elsewhere in the business of video games…
By Steve Peterson Published January 31, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: An (Over) Promising Future
QUOTE | “It did remind me of [Kinect]. You kind of want to scream ‘don’t over promise these things.'” – Designer Peter Molyneux of 22cans, talking about Microsoft HoloLens from his perspective as an early Kinect developer Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “There have been a lot…
By Steve Peterson Published January 24, 2015 -
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This Week In The Business: Missing Out On Mobile
QUOTE | “It’s outright embarrassing how totally unrepresented many of the industry’s biggest players are in the mobile arena.” – Jeferson Valadares, Bandai Namco’s head of mobile, talking about how traditional game publishers need to get busy making mobile games Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “It’s when…
By Steve Peterson Published January 17, 2015 -
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This Year In The Business: The Best Quotes Of 2014
QUOTE | “You ever feel like what we’re doing is too much like pornography?” – Trip Hawkins, EA and Digital Chocolate founder, asking an odd question while talking about the difficulty of monetizing games. Today we round up the best quotes in the business of video games from this past year … QUOTE | “I…
By Steve Peterson Published December 27, 2014 -
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This Week In The Business: A Slap In The Face
QUOTE | “We got slapped in the face after the launch of the game.” – CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski, talking about the rocky reception the PC version of Lords of the Fallen received due to stability problems Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “I sometimes feel that…
By Steve Peterson Published December 20, 2014 -
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This Week In The Business: Warping Reality
QUOTE | “It will be hard to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s virtual around you.” – Noah Falstein, Google’s Chief Game Designer, talking about the future of virtual reality and augmented reality for games Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “‘Christ, we’ve only got 10…
By Steve Peterson Published December 6, 2014 -
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This Week In The Business: Reshaping Destiny
QUOTE | “In a way that we expected, we knew that we were going to have to change our plans from the moment the game went live.” – Bungie COO Pete Parsons, talking about how they are hard at work modifying and extending Destiny Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week ……
By Steve Peterson Published November 29, 2014 -
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This Week In The Business: Making Sense Is Boring
QUOTE | “What the other companies are doing makes business sense, but it’s boring” – Legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto, talking about Nintendo’s philosophy of creating gaming experiences Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “We are concerned that you’ll play our games for a long period of time.…
By Steve Peterson Published November 22, 2014 -
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This Week In The Business: Metacritic Means Nothing
QUOTE | “We’ve basically seen Metacritic all but become obsolete right now… We get obsessed with it…but it doesn’t really matter, as far as the sales of the game.” – Double Fine COO Justin Bailey, talking about what things have and have not influenced the sales of their games Elsewhere in the business of video…
By Steve Peterson Published November 15, 2014
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