| Soleron said: Has any company ever definitively made money on an F2P game? |
Zynga was making TONS of bank, right up until the total collapse.
Then there's Valve. Tons of mobile game companies (some of these have seen boom-bust cycles similar to Zynga's). Campanies in Asia that we've never heard of.
Free-to-play seems to work really well for some kinds of games, but it's no panacea. Plenty of free-to-play horror stories to accompany the successes. I find the kind of game design it encourages to be downright poisonous, so count me among those who hope the concept has peaked.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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