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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 😬

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

Definitely sounds kinda cold outta context thoo

Don’t love the framing, but I largely agree with them.  In anything consumer, your product is fighting for attention against literally everything in a user’s life. It’s realistic to think this is a PvE scenario