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Take-Two CEO: "We Ought To Be Monetizing 100% Of The Audience" For Mobile Games | GameSpot

www.gamespot.com Take-Two CEO: "We Ought To Be Monetizing 100% Of The Audience" For Mobile Games

Take-Two's CEO gets a bigger payday if the company makes more money from microtransactions.

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Sad to see that he had no interest in actually selling the games. This is why a lot of people stay away from mobile gaming. Constant data mining and random gatchas dying mean people do not want to invest in a product that strings them along and can disappear at anytime.
- We carry devices with us that are more powerful than the Switch, yet we're here with this bullshit that mobile gaming is. It's just sad how techno feudalism is destroying everything.
  
  The worst part is that they do this because it works. Mobile gaming is just fundamentally broken and the only way to fix it is to fix psychology (which obviously won't happen).
  
  This absolutely annoys the heck out of me.
  
  Most phones can run emulators up to gamecube or dreamcast. That'a impressive considering emulators aren't always optimized.
  
  Square Enix is hit and miss but have done some really good stuff in the past. The mobile version of Chrono Trigger is probably the definitive version among the ports (minus the newer translation)
- Yup. I would totally buy mobile games if I could find any that don't suck. Instead, my money goes to Steam and Nintendo because they actually make portable gaming products.
  
  It's amazing what a gameflex controller or a hdmi adaptor/console controller can do with a phone and gaming.
  
  You can basically turn your phone into a steam deck or switch, only problem is the lack of games.
It's like gaming companies almost want to see the market crash with all these bullshit things they are doing. Yet people keep buying into it.
- Havent made a single apple purchase for over 2 years now.
  
  This is how it starts. How it ends is up to them.
  
  I don't pay for microtransactions out of principle, yet I'm sure there's someone else who will not than make up for me. I honestly don't get it.
I'm doing my part so they can get closer to their goal. By not being part of the audience.
- me too, actually.
How to make people start hating your games - CEO edition

Tip 1: if you don't give us money, we will make it unplayable by forcing you to watch ads. Get fucked end user...give me money.
Wait, there are still mobile games without monetization?
- Not free but without micro transaction: slay the spire is killer
  
  I find I hear about these after playing on another platform. I just don't look at mobile anymore because the market is filled with nonsense.
  
  Apparently a few of the games I've really enjoyed have a mobile version, and sometimes it's cheaper there, but I don't even think to check.
  
  Juno new Origins is pretty great, just makes you device turn into a stove
- Usually ones that come with an upfront cost, but yeah. There's actually a lot that are pretty good, like Monument Valley 1+2, or Stardew Valley's mobile port.
- Unciv on Android is quite fun :)
- The Base Game of Vampire Survivors is free and the DLCs cost a few Dollar like the Steam Version.
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- I think gerbil dicks are small enough that you could batter and fry them and it wouldn't be so bad. Strauss Zelnick can chug a drum of horse cocks
Gross.
Here's how to monetize 100%% of your playerbase :

Charge a one-time premium to have access to the game forever at a reasonable, region-adjusted price that the average worker can afford, and then fuck off.
Look at all these mother fucking bitches who ain't making us some mother fucking money!
Fuck you pay me /s

Edit: /s cuz some of you take the internet way to seriously

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