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Report: 83% of mobile games fail in the three years after launch
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What do you mean by whales everywhere?
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
Most people spend nothing or just a few bucks on mobile games. But the "whales" spend several thousand.
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.