"We have relationships with
well-established companies willing to
introduce us to the licensors. In Japan
that goes a long way, and is certainly better
than cold-calling. If you think you can cold
call, you're really fighting a tough
battle."
Meanwhile, you can still read the
story on determining how much money can be
made in the "free-to-play" MMO
business. It's here -- along with almost two
dozen reader comments (feel free to add to the
discussion): http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4046/what_are_the_rewards_of_.php
"This reluctance to clearly
report revenues is a deliberate attempt to
obfuscate the numbers. There seems to be a
perception that there is a business advantage
to not being transparent. But I
disagree."
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This reluctance to clearly report
revenues is a deliberate attempt to obfuscate
the numbers. There seems to be a perception
that there is a business advantage to not
being transparent. But I disagree.
Meanwhile, you can still read the
story on developers who are
"relaxing" their digital rights
management (DRM) policies and are just
accepting that their games will be pirated
regardless what they do. It was posted here --
along with FIFTY-SEVEN (!) reader comments
(surely that's a record if ever there was one
;-) Feel free to add to the discussion ...): http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4020/pc_game_piracy_why_bother_with_.php
Carmel is aware that piracy is a
problem, of course. In a recent blog,
he reported the methodology he used to
determine that 90% of the copies of
"World of Goo" that exist are pirate
versions.
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