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Overwatch’s “Hero Mode” Needed to be a Spinoff

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Dozens of copies of the same sniper rifle with slightly different stats is a cheap way to extend content, and players willingly grind for hours to get a rifle with +5% damage. 1) inhibits the hero fantasy and creates intra-team conflict (“somebody needs to switch to healer!”). (2) Hero mode will need to build all this out.

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Playtika goes from social casino to casual - and that’s not good

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to assist content creators using AI-based animation Nexon revenues jump 28% year-over-year Roblox revenue up 2% as quarterly losses hit $300 million Web3-based MMO develope r wins $10m in new capital Bandai Namco H1 sales rise above expectations Unity Q3 revenues are up but losses deepen to $239.6m million despite lowest quarter since 2020 ?

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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio

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IMHO, this makes it a different situation from the Second Dinner core team (of Marvel Snap fame), who were already used to working together at delivering top-level content and was easier for them to become operative. And newly assembled groups often take a lot of time (even years) to evolve into a high-functioning team.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

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Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Others: Multiple replay reasons Lost Ark has innovated on some interesting gameplay systems besides quests and battles that encourage replaying content. This genre is getting marginalized in the West. The rough cutscene).

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Riot's Runeterra Declares War Against Blizzard's Hearthstone

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For the rest of this blog post, we’ll be giving you an in-depth look at Runeterra’s design and innovations as well as discussing the unique monetization strategy Riot has announced for Runeterra - which places hard spending caps on content acquisition - and the implications of that strategy. Make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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2021 Predictions #4 Contenders Throwdown for Supercell's Mid-Core Crown

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Clash Royale’s gacha driven collection economy with a fairly limited amount of content has been evidently too shallow for a battle pass leading to long-lasting impacts to a game’s revenue stream. The game has failed to see an uplift ever since mid-2019 when the battle pass was first introduced into the game.

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