Circling The Drain - making games is expensive, unless its a grind

[sinij]

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"For Western publishers, profitability hasn't grown at all in the past few years and that's before we take 2009 into account," he said.

By contrast, he said, Chinese firms were still seeing improved profits.

What makes the difference between Western firms and Chinese developers was the way they went about getting products to players.

Western publishers, said Mr Williams, still relied on the traditional develop methods of putting a game on a DVD and then selling that through retail channels.

Chinese developers focussed primarily on the PC market and used direct download, rather than retail stores, to get games to consumers.  

I guess market will tolerate only that much of shitting in the box, slapping DRM on it and asking people to pay for it year after year. 3 installs and dead? Ya, fuck you.

[schild]

I am about 5 seconds from removing your ability to make topics. I just wanted you to know that. So next time your cursor gets near a "create topic" button, think twice.

[Margalis]

Chinese developers focussed primarily on the PC market and used direct download, rather than retail stores, to get games to consumers. 

That's clearly the only difference between Chinese devs and Western devs...

[sinij]

I think they confused Chinese and Korean in the article. I haven't heard about any game development going on in China, have you?

[Rasix]

 

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