Why do we make games? What is our real mission? We are here to make people happy. That is the greatest privilege. It’s crucial we remember that and understand exactly what our role is.
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Pirate Kings is a great example for the way F2P games bring in new players
On the virtues of Free to Play
F2P, or Free2Play, or Freemium if you wish, has a bad reputation. You can find many articles, blog posts and forum threads bashing this model.
However, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the model itself. In fact, few can argue that this model is what made games part of the mainstream world. It allows you to have a conversation about games with your mother, or grandfather, or whomever.
What I am going to write about is why, philosophically, F2P games are a crucial element in the game industry. And I am going to write why “casual” gamers and “hardcore” gamers should both be happy it exists.
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E3 2016 Games I'm excited to play
A video packed post with E3 games' trailers of games that look promising and why I'm excited about them.
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Is the AppleTV about to change?
It's not just to coming growth of the AppleTv as it is the decline of the iPods.
In the last earning calls we learned that the iPods are in decline (as Apple new would happen). Apple don't see a future for iPods, they're are the past. Apple doesn't hold to products that are not and do not do "insanely great" as Steve Jobs liked to praise the products he loved.
at this stage the iPods take focus off other products and so a change is bound to happen. One product that Appled ones see a future for is the AppleTV.
Now, The Apple TV was always under the iPods section and so, it has to move from under that section before they sack it. They could have moved it to the iMacs or Iphone section but it looks like Apple believe the AppleTV is going to grow. This means it needs its own category.
A growth prediction means Apple is going to do something new and different with the AppleTV. Will it be games like some analysts think? I hope so, but I'm not sure that's the focus. Controlling the living room is an important strategy and Apple could do it. But they didn't do it so far, so what changed? That's the big question.
Apple did acquired PrimeSense (The company that created the technology for the kinect) but it doesn't seems like that product is already done and ready for shipment. Unless everything was ready and they just needed the tech, but there are many things they couldn't have prepared in advance like the circuitry which is part of the design loop.
Well, things are getting interesting.
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