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Video Game Development Trends
And now the video game biz is embracing micropayments or providing less and less for more and more. Fascinating post with overtones for e-commerce, content marketing, mobile marketing, and digital marketing. http://www.growngaming.com/feature/microtransactions-new-dlc/ Via Jonathan Birkenstamm 
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October 8, 2019 8:55 PM
With the growing trend of Microtransactions in video games, game companies become aware of another means of making a profit other than through the mere purchase of their games. Through distribution of digital goods for use in the game in exchange for real world money, game companies found a way to profit in a way that did not necessarily rest on the merits of the games themselves, but on social engineering and incentive for players to become sources of recurrent revenue.
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Interesting post about how video games are becoming micropayment gateways. We suspect that trend, one we observed with Harvard Business Review about five years go, will multiply and morph into many business channels.