Scott Jennings

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Scott Jennings NCsoft Lead Designer, unannou
nced Worked on Dark Age Of Camelot Rante
d on the web
Probably insulted you
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Easiest way to predict the future

Point out stuff that already happened.
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Online Games 2013 Hollywood
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Online Games 2013 The Blockbusters They will
have 100 million budgets. They will be ite
rative, not creative. No one is going to ta
ke huge risks with 100 million. (Would you?)
They will define our industry.
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Online Games 2013 The Action Thrillers They
will have smaller budgets (but large compared
to today - 25m). They wont take many risks,
either. Theyll be harder to develop, beca
use theyre trying to compete with blockbusters
on a smaller budget. Many will fail.
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Online Games 2013 The Trendy Indies They wil
l have budgets far smaller than other competing
games (10 20m). They will take risks and lea
d the genre forward. Theyll be profitable, a
nd have players that love them. Youll think o
f them as failures because theyre not blockbus
ters.
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Online Games 2013 Youtube Budget? Whats tha
t? There will be tens of thousands of them.
Individually, they will have very few
players. Collectively, they will have millions
. Some will grow to be blockbusters themselves
.
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Online Games 2013 SPECIAL BONUS OBVIOUS
PREDICTION Microtransactions Are The Future er,
Present Asia has been doing it for years.
Theyve been doing it right. Many of the Wester
n attempts at microtransactions have been doing
it wrong. Were starting to get it right now,
though. And if we dont, players will do it an
yway. Without us.