For some developers like Zynga it was even before. So in short words yeah they made a lot of money but it didn't last for long. They have scrapped everything that doesn't work and now only focusing on what's profitable.Īctually they did make a lot of money (that is during initial stages and sales kinda peaked for a lot of these game developers in 2015) but not a lot of them converted into profits.

The only winners from all of this are companies big companies with diversified portfolio like Activision who owns King (Candy Crush developers) then you got Niantic, and Riot Games. There were like 50 Angry Birds games from Rovio, 100s of rehashes of same Gameloft Games. Monetization was prioritized instead of game design and what casual gamers liked.Īll of these companies are failures today because they couldn't innovate pump and dump strategy.

Temple Run, Subway Surfers, Cut The Rope, Fruit Ninja, Clash of Clans, Hay Day and so on.but very few game companies kept supporting these games in the longer run. I completely fail to see how mobile versions are any better except for the fact that it's portable (which you can also do on Nintendo Switch and expect better quality!). Special events have entire store discounted. On PC you get remote play feature even for local multiplayer games, enhanced textures, support for modding (Terraria has Steam workshop on Steam that lets fans create quality and fun mods and share it to public download) then there's achievements, guides, screenshot sharing, trading cards, badges and unlimited frame rate and high resolution support, controller support. The Waking Dead games, Terraria, Stardew Valley are often heavily discounted in 50-250 rs territory. These companies failed to go anywhere and reach at that peak where they had initially hoped for and their stock prices also reflect this. Companies like Zynga, Gameloft, Rovio Entertainment and hundreds of others tried to make get rich quick schemes but lost it all when they kept doing to same shit over and over and over and over again.

The thing is you can only do this for so long.

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