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Title: F2P
Post by: pembquist on September 17, 2015, 01:59:14 PM

Insiders description. Should give you pause before you get all enthusiastic about F2P. Its not about squeezing money out of you as much as owning you.

http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-a-free-to-play-producer/ (http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-a-free-to-play-producer/)

Title: Re: F2P
Post by: Ack-Ack on September 17, 2015, 02:16:57 PM

Quote from: pembquist on September 17, 2015, 01:59:14 PM

Insiders description. Should give you pause before you get all enthusiastic about F2P. Its not about squeezing money out of you as much as owning you.

http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-a-free-to-play-producer/ (http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-a-free-to-play-producer/)

My wife is the community manager for a studio here in LA that makes F2P games and she was telling me that a lot of social F2P game studios use the same business model as gambling companies.

Title: Re: F2P
Post by: bustr on September 17, 2015, 03:02:24 PM

At least this doesn't mean HTC has to show some cleavage on the front page. I watch a lot of anime and sometimes the F2P game adds make me think I'm on a pron site. It works in Vegas.

Maybe I should make some custom gunsights wallpapered with anime cuties that show up when you use zoom. meow.....

Title: Re: F2P
Post by: Wiley on September 17, 2015, 03:11:55 PM

The datamining really doesn't bother me like it does some people.  The psychology they use to get people addicted is the more bothersome thing to me.

Wiley.