Serious Sunday: Ubisoft DLC policy changes - Big steps against "Bad DLC"
3On November 22nd, game development and publishing gaint Ubisoft's VP of live operations Anne Blondel-Jouin announced that Ubi are making sweeping changes to their DLC policy, no longer creating any DLC that "gamers have to buy for the full experience" - an enormous step for one of the premiere offenders in the history of "Day One DLC" and frequent makers of consumer-annoying business decisions. Luke weighs in on the significance of this change, its motivations and what we should expect to see from Ubisoft going forward.
Read the article on gamesindustry.biz: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-11-22-no-more-dlc-that-gamers-have-to-buy-for-the-full-experience-ubisoft
Watch ThursDev: Business Models - Part 4: The economics of Monetization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waOzdp4sfRk
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Serious Sunday is a freeform roundtable discussion between the members of the Level 0 NPCs, where a specific topic is pre-selected by the group to be explored and discussed at length. Each of the NPCs approach the topic from both the perspective of a seasoned, die-hard gamer, and as creators of games themselves. Part freeform review, part critical analysis, part video game book club, Serious Sunday is where the NPCs take a step back and take a moment to give a serious look at something that is important to the industry, or games in general.
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