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[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its quite an acheivement to have a relatively low barrier to entry and whales everywhere and still fail

[-] betabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 year ago

It's also a saturated market because of the low barrier of entry, without an advertising budget you are taking a gamble no matter how good the gameplay is.

[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Even a whale can decide to just spend more money on a game they like more. It's not an endless market for companies to delve into.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by whales everywhere?

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

A whale is someone that spends a tremendous amount of money on mobile games. These are the people most games pander to or otherwise design themselves around

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Most people spend nothing or just a few bucks on mobile games. But the "whales" spend several thousand.

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

But not on all games. Only on games they're addicted to.

It's a finite resource that mobile games have to fight each other for.

[-] fred@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Low barrier to entry if you're not counting visibility. Yeah you can publish to the stores, but nobody will see it unless you are ordained by the gods at Apple and Google, or you buy eyeballs (and have the capital to do so.)

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