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[Draugoth]

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In a recent survey among developers at Devcom 2024 in Cologne, nearly 90% of those asked said that premium games don’t need microtransactions.

According to the 100 developers asked out of the 300 speakers at the event, 89% said that they believe that premium AAA games can be “financially successful just by being Buy-to-Play.” Sticking with business models, 65% of people believe in a premium game’s model for both physical and digital games. Only one person believed that free-to-play with ads was the best direction of the industry.

In other areas of the survey, 31% of developers prefer little AI usage in game development. That said, 21% did have interest in using AI to help with coding and general production to increase the development speed of the games. Finally, in regards to AI, the belief among those polled was that AI could replace human localizations and translations within the next 12-24 months.

 

[adamsapple]

Now survey Publishers and see how many say otherwise.

 

[IFireflyl]

Awe yeah! Men_in_Boxes just got rekt!

 

[t_wilson01]

Games needing microtransactions and publishers wanting then are two very different things.

 

[Skifi28]

The remaining 10% was Ubisoft.

 

[Lupin3]

Yet here we are...

 

[Hrk69]

Awe yeah! Men_in_Boxes just got rekt!

My guy is banned and you do him like that?

 

[acm2000]

since when did buy to play become premium

 

[digital_ghost]

My guy is banned and you do him like that?

Men_in_Timeout

 

[Wildebeest]

AAA games don't need them, but what about AAAAAAA games?

 

[winjer]

Microtransactions are pushed mostly by CEOs and shareholders.

 

[NuclearDiarrhea]

"Let me tell you why you're wrong" - slimy suit wearing motherfucker who thinks Mario is a Sega creation.

 

[Laptop1991]

Yeah, their bosses won't agree.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Yeah, they should survey their execs and shareholders as well.

 

[hemo memo]

According to the 100 developers asked out of the 300 speakers at the event, 89% said that they believe that premium AAA games can be “financially successful just by being Buy-to-Play.” Sticking with business models, 65% of people believe in a premium game’s model for both physical and digital games. Only one person believed that free-to-play with ads was the best direction of the industry.

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[digital_ghost]

According to governments

 

[EDMIX]

The lolz, now survey the actual fucking people the own the company

 

[Rentahamster]

That this is not how things are in practice should give us insight into which parties are actually in control here.

 

[kikkis]

Call of duty couldnt support thousands devs without mtx:s. Kind of feels like biting feeding hand.

 

[Bonfires Down]

I’m sure they will say that until they are fired because their game underperformed.