wraggster
December 18th, 2012, 14:18
SOE president criticises social game developer for creating 'monetisation products - not games'
Zynga has done a terrible disservice to the free-to-play sector through how it has monetised its games, claims the president of Sony Online Entertainment.
Speaking to PC Gamer (http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/14/soe-president-john-smedley-on-planetside-2s-future-free-to-play-and-everquest-next/), John Smedley said he felt free-to-play had a bad reputation in the West because of the way many social games tried to take money from their users.
He claimed that many titles developed by Zynga were “monetisation products and “not games”.
Smedley added that many consumers had also not given many free-to-play games a chance and readily dismissed them as poor titles.
“Much of the free-to-play model is coming over from Asia – and there were actually a stack of really good games that came over – but people just sort of dismissed them as just crappy,” he said.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/42821/SOE-Zynga-has-done-free-to-play-a-terrible-disservice
Zynga has done a terrible disservice to the free-to-play sector through how it has monetised its games, claims the president of Sony Online Entertainment.
Speaking to PC Gamer (http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/14/soe-president-john-smedley-on-planetside-2s-future-free-to-play-and-everquest-next/), John Smedley said he felt free-to-play had a bad reputation in the West because of the way many social games tried to take money from their users.
He claimed that many titles developed by Zynga were “monetisation products and “not games”.
Smedley added that many consumers had also not given many free-to-play games a chance and readily dismissed them as poor titles.
“Much of the free-to-play model is coming over from Asia – and there were actually a stack of really good games that came over – but people just sort of dismissed them as just crappy,” he said.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/42821/SOE-Zynga-has-done-free-to-play-a-terrible-disservice