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    the fact is that the casual gamers have always paid the bills for MMOs while the "hardcore" reap the reward
    That depends on which of the numerous axis' you're choosing to define hardcore on at any given time.

    Theres multiple games which only have a "hardcore" base, and theres several who make more money off a hardcore base than the "casual" base.

    The freemium model of games, MMO's included, is overly dependent on the whale spenders to stay alive, and theres entire sections of the industry dedicated to the psychological manipulation of the reward cycle to promote that spending.


    I've worked with publishers that make clash of clans style games with different skins and korean-style MMO's. The top .2% of spenders spend more than the entire "casual" base combined, per month.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barraind View Post
    That depends on which of the numerous axis' you're choosing to define hardcore on at any given time.

    Theres multiple games which only have a "hardcore" base, and theres several who make more money off a hardcore base than the "casual" base.

    The freemium model of games, MMO's included, is overly dependent on the whale spenders to stay alive, and theres entire sections of the industry dedicated to the psychological manipulation of the reward cycle to promote that spending.


    I've worked with publishers that make clash of clans style games with different skins and korean-style MMO's. The top .2% of spenders spend more than the entire "casual" base combined, per month.
    this is a subscription based MMO, should have been obvious that i was talking about those not Korean p2w cash grabs that rely on whales.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vulcann View Post
    this is a subscription based MMO, should have been obvious that i was talking about those not Korean p2w cash grabs that rely on whales.
    This may as well be considered one of those kinds of games, really. The last word was (unless it changed since then) that only the game sales and mogstation sales get fed back into XIV, while the subscription and other services get used to fund other SQEX projects.
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    Last edited by frostmagemari; 01-16-2020 at 10:20 AM.