• grue@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    The predatory games succeed because they have huge marketing budgets and casuals don’t have the skills/motivation/etc. to actively seek out the good games instead.

    Getting into the industry as a dev does not help with this problem.

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        … the lightning struck. If you’re looking for some greater pattern there… flappy bird is from a different time. Anything you could’ve learned from it is no longer relevant.