Mario, Markets, and Microtransactions @econosopher
"We see our game designs as hypotheses and our playtests as experiments to validate these hypothesis." - Mike Ambinder, Valve gameeconomistconsulting.com Stockholm, Sweden Joined October 2013-
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AAA gaming is so unsustainable it grew $400M year-over-year.
Nothing affirms the empiricism of division of labor so much as watching people struggle in the self-checkout line.
Well, my Squadbusters take has gone from: "Love the mechanics, go forth and optimize!" to "Seppuku for the Chinese" after the launch announcement.
RIP Blizzard "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024."
We ask @sammy_rosen this. Soon on Game Economist Cast!
Today, I woke up, and the sun shone brighter because Squadbusters exists.
Some hypercasual studio..please license this for a sim game.
Some hypercasual studio..please license this for a sim game.
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False Necessity is the Mother of Dumb Invention - why invest billions to create substitutes for what is common, low cost labor? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
I generally agree with this take, and I'm glad to hear Chris say this. Ragnarok was the perfect balance of fun, silly, but also epicness. L&T was just... absurd. I'd love to see him get one more.
Chris Hemsworth can't forgive himself for "Thor: Love and Thunder" and feels that Marvel fans deserve another "Thor" film that's better. “I got caught up in the improv and the wackiness, and I became a parody of myself. I didn’t stick the landing.” variety.com/2024/film/news…
@econosopher I read the headline as "Fall Guys transmedia" and was supremely confused.
@econosopher Six figure budget would be very cheap!
I’m hosting a Game Design Roundtable on May 30th. We’ll be focusing on systems design as a career and answering audience questions. Check it out here: linkedin.com/events/7190748…
Is the US experiencing a High Tech boom? Decker and Haltiwanger (April 2024) document some important (and promising) facts (minithread): 1. A surge in new business entry since 2019. High tech industries account for a disproportionate share of that entry 1/3
Korean game dev Shift Up is so interesting -focuses on a specific (controversial) demo: high fan service gamers 💃 -shipped mobile F2P game @NIKKE_en which grossed $600M+ -just shipped @StellarBlade a $70 AAA console exclusive w/ 83 metacritic -filed for IPO at $2B+ est valuation
@mgsiegler Agree there are important shades here, just saying the EU didn't really jerk them around - really it was the opposite as they held implementation requirements while reviewing a dispute they had pretty clearly told Apple they wouldn't change their mind. That's accommodation
I only just clocked this, but Playrix has a squad battler in soft launch called Questbound
We've refreshed our 'soft launch games you need to know about' article to include Squad Busters, two new Playrix games and a couple of other new and notable incoming games:
I went on the @GIBiz microcast to talk about Supercell, Squad Busters, TikTok and why Embracer is ‘the Liz Truss of games’: gamesindustry.biz/embracers-thre…
Excited to join LEGO Board of Directors with @ebiatawodi! My dream is that one day Supercell will be a similar iconic company whose products everyone loves. So this is an opportunity for me to learn from the best! :-) lego.com/fi-fi/aboutus/…
I think most people have pretty reasonable and rational objectives but they often involve improving their social status or sense of identity relative to some community, and political positions are often downstream of that.
The belief that everyone else is an NPC is a comforting lie people tell themselves that betrays a deep intellectual insecurity
Hi #EconTwitter! 📈 Looking for some very cool undergrad #econometrics lecture notes, with an emphasis on iid/micro data and causal inference? Don’t miss out on these two sets of lecture notes by @instrumenthull (@BrownUniversity) and @jondr44 (@BrownUniversity)! 📚…
There was never any indication we were heading to the 2.0% inflation target, let alone pre-pandemic 1.8% average; we've arrived at 3%+ w/ no indication we're going significantly lower anytime soon, not w/ current levels of Treasury borrowing and Fed allowing money supply growth:
NFTs have been hard for many people to understand, but research by @TempleUniv’s Sebeom Oh and @sammy_rosen and @ChicagoBooth’s @alz_zyd_ suggests that they are, in some ways, the digital equivalent of luxury goods—albeit with a wrinkle relating to price. ms.spr.ly/6016YDqQr
Check out Chicago Booth Review's summary of my NFT paper with Sebeom Oh and @sammy_rosen!
NFTs have been hard for many people to understand, but research by @TempleUniv’s Sebeom Oh and @sammy_rosen and @ChicagoBooth’s @alz_zyd_ suggests that they are, in some ways, the digital equivalent of luxury goods—albeit with a wrinkle relating to price. ms.spr.ly/6016YDqQr
"Econ has the largest gap between supporting preregistration and actually doing it"
Social scientists are broadly in favor of making code/data available, more mixed on preregistration. Econ has the largest gap between supporting preregistration and actually doing it. nature.com/articles/s4146…
The most immediate effect of a ban on non-competes will be to reduce wages. Maybe worthwhile due to possible positive effects on innovation. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
@tonyannett 1. China liberalized significantly over this time period 2. Even excluding China, the drop is substantial
The post-covid inflation caused a level shift in real personal income excluding transfer receipts.
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