Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. It’s no surprise to any readers of this newsletter that Apple set off a nuclear warhead into the heart of the mobile games business with IDFA deprecation, under the thin veil of user privacy.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Platform holders have been gaining market power over the past decade, making them the largest game companies in the world in comparison to independent publishers. My perhaps naive expectation is that Microsoft will have more leverage and a friendlier coopetition with the mobile giants to pull some much-needed oxygen into these ecosystems.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. So, setting their sites on a subscription-based offering on mobile does sound like a more approachable business that Netflix would consider. These games could be a console, pc, or mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

It’s not that Magic Eden could not have brought more gamers onto their platform or Fenix Games could not have built a nice marketplace. Of course, it’s important not to reduce it to 1 or 2 like today’s mobile gaming, but I hope we can do better than that… Written by Ahmetcan Demirel ?️ Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Compared to more demanding models that may monetize much more, but also risk burning their players because regular people simply can’t spend $500+ in a game per month before they consider if there aren’t better ways to spend their moment on entertainment. According to Game Refinery , Call of Duty Mobile is testing a similar feature.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We can say with more confidence than ever that gaming is at the heart of media and entertainment. For the past decade, we’ve looked at mobile gaming as the driver of gaming growth, both in terms of new players and revenue generated. The report describes that AAA games released on modern platforms cost $200 million or more to produce.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Even the ones that exist on mobile cannot push for mass adoption, because there is no clarity as to how blockchain games are positioned. This will prevent Apple from making any changes in the App Store while getting their cut from those blockchain games for every primary sale done inside the mobile app.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

This royalty was as high as 20% depending on the platform and the conditions of the market. They eliminated the creator royalties and decreased their platform royalty (the cut they take as the marketplace) to as low as 0.5%.

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