Chris Wilson's 2019 gdc presentation - merge if already posted.

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Kellog wrote:

Two things I take away from this speech are:

1. Everything we decide is done with the economy in mind.
2. Progression isn't meant to be linear in any way.

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poaw wrote:

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Antigegner wrote:

I find it interesting how his talk goes from creating a great game to how to make the most money out of it at around 19 to 20 minutes in.

It was a single throw-away comment about monetizing his product.

"We monetize the game early in the league so it doesn't matter when participation drops off late, because the players come back for the next league, and we can re-monetize them then."

He was talking about that in the context of their shift to the consistent 13 week league cycle to maintain player interest and create growth. He doesn't go on and on about it, he goes right back to discussing GGG development cycle and player numbers. I'm only half way through so far but he hasn't mentioned making money again (~32 minutes in so far).

Edit: 45 minutes in, he still hasn't spoken about making money again.
Edit: 47 minutes in, he says players who aren't actively playing the league still buy supporter packs and how that motivates them to keep creating quality content. The formal talk is over the Q&A has started.
Edit: During the Q&A he jokes about selling beta access because people were threatening GGG because they didn't get beta access, and how that and Kickstarter inspired the creation of starter packs.

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Antigegner wrote:

milked

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Iangyratu wrote:

Does anyone know if they'll upload it on their YouTube later? I'd love to watch it with auto-genereated subs, since I'm missing some parts of Chris' speech.

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Mark___75 wrote:

- Next league will be probably even worst than Synthesis, because GGG has to put lots of efforts to improve current league and this may impact the following one OR current bugs and annoying mechanics will never be removed, because it is high time to focus on the next league (and anyway - the current one has already lost more than 80% players but supporter packs were sold before that happened - so who cares!).

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鬼殺し wrote:

So as I said, the cold truth is this is ultimately about making money. It's about being successful. It's about hooking players and seeing them as a commodity, a resource in a larger picture. To simplify that perspective drastically, imagine being a game dev is itself a game, call it SimGame if you'd like. We the players would be represented in a corner of the screen by a little person icon, a number next to it and an emoticon denoting our overall feeling about the game. Big number+smiley face=more money every month to allocate to the game. This is a win. Small number+sad face=less money every month to allocate to the game. This is a loss. Various actions in SimGame affect this stat. Most drain your other resources, which can also result in a loss. Well, you've all played a resource-management game right? How often do you stop to worry about the feelings of the resources unless the direct result is a quantifiable win?

Heh, I just realised in such a game, streamers would have their own statistic because their satisfaction and engagement would modify the overall players'. Oh that's depressing, hahahaha.

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Kalitko_83 wrote:

The next announcement from Wilson will be these words:


You have phones exiles?