Chatted with a game dev last night.

They said, “when working on the business of a free to play game, it’s helpful to sometimes view yourselves at war with your players. They have your money in their pockets and you need to figure out a way to get them to give it to you.”

Definitely a different framing.

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Haha I think it’s definitely an extreme way to think about making a game into a business. But I do understand that F2P player can be entitled and want every single thing in a game for free.

But I have found that people are usually happy to pay for the things that they really want in games… no need for war 🤣

That sounds like a depressing way to think about something that’s supposed to be creating fun 😬

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Yeah I had never heard someone with this perspective which is why this quote really gripped me from yesterday.

Agree that competition is more intense, but I’d rather build something out of passion/care than just focusing on extracting.

I’m glad most game devs don’t view things this way

I’ve talked to many game devs, as I’m one myself, but I’ve never heard anyone have a toxic attitude like that. Almost everyone in this industry is in it because they are passionate about games. 

But I do agree that the fierce competition has made things more predatory. Players deserve better and Web3 enables it

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Yeah, not the best.

Definitely felt like they were playing a short-term game.

I didn’t like the framing or perspective because I think there are too big of opportunities to be thinking in such an intensely extractive way.

I mean sounds like solid game theory for someone who came up on RTS games 

Definitely sounds kinda cold outta context thoo