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the time couldn’t carry the
wide range of hardware and
software available. While
digital distribution is a large
difference in now vs then, it
won’t be the saviour; people
only have so much time and
there are only so many of us.
Business Model
Greed. That is basically how to
explain what I mean when I talk
about business models. We live
in a day and age where addons
for fully-fledged products are
announced at the same time
as the product itself. There is
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no more a sense of being sold
an incomplete package but of
this just being the norm. EA
offer a Premium service for
Battlefield 4, which also looks
to be making a move to The
Sims, where if you put down
£45-50 (the price of the game
you already bought) you can
pre-purchase all the DLC (which
15/20 years ago would have
been part of the full game)
months before its release date.
be able to enjoy the game
in any significant way.
Essentially reeling you in and
forcing you to spend money
to enjoy the game the way
it was meant to be enjoyed.
No, this is #notalldevelopers
but it’s so popular with
casual games now that it’s
bordering on the criminal with
some mobile franchises.
Free-to-play is a hugely popular
choice now for developers
who will then charge large
amounts for you to actually
This is possibly the biggest
issue. As much as gaming is a
more acceptable pastime now
than it was about 10 years ago,
Perception
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