Freemium games and economies of scale
MODs are a designed relief valve. Taking for granted that it's going to be costly for players, what's the true benefit to EA other than cash? In "protest" you get stagnate players and even high...
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"nachospimp7;541854" wrote:
This will eventually kill the industry as we know it.
It has already killed most all concepts of mobile "gaming" replaced by IAP and pay walls.
There are fewer and fewer premium games in mobile, and even some of those charge for DLC.
The industry now is full of "monetizers," publishers running games others produce much like the relationship between EA and CG.
Just look at all the celebrity endorsed "games" making money through the same processes.
It's not really a game industry anymore, just an IP scouring profit squeezing machine.
Eventually a game producer somewhere will take a stand, but they'll just get washed beneath the next wave of the same designed solely for profit games.
You might eventually again see some largly successful games focused upon fun, but they will be few and far between.
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