AGDC07: What Are the Biggest Online Opportunities?

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Sep 072007
 

My last session was this very lively panel with John Blakely (SOE Austin), Mark Jacobs (EA Mythic), Erik Bethke (GoPets), and moderated by Matt Firor. It was a blast.

Note, Gamasutra misattributes one quote, and VWN claims that it was John Smedley, not John Blakely. 🙂

  7 Responses to “AGDC07: What Are the Biggest Online Opportunities?”

  1. Lag-O-Rama says:
    October 18, 2007 at 3:38 am

    of the fact that most game companies might not be seeing the entire picture out there) was part of a panel at the Austin Game Developers Conference 2007 on the subject of opportunities for game developers…he’s got links to coverage of that panelhere.

  2. simonc says:
    September 7, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    Which quote was misattributed? Will fix!

  3. Raph says:
    September 7, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    Jacobs raised issues with microtransactions relating to the value of the items sold, and Bethke chimed in: “Whatever you write in your EULA is your best wish, but we have hundreds of years of English common law about transactions.”

    “We really really really have to make a distinction between the concept of microtransactions — which means spending a tiny amount of money — and the ownership of digital assets,” Bethke stressed. “They are not the same thing. We cannot equate them.” He added, “Betting the farm on business models instead of audiences and consumer needs is always a bad idea.”

    First paragraph was indeed Erik. Second paragraph was me, though. 🙂

    Generally speaking, Erik and I were enough in sync through the whole thing that it’s a pretty easily understood mistake! 🙂 (Just got back from dinner & drinks with him & others…)

  4. simonc says:
    September 8, 2007 at 6:53 am

    Aha, thanks for the heads-up – the mind meld is now reversed.

  5. Morgan Ramsay says:
    September 8, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Explain that logic, you bloody Vulcan!

  6. Michael Chui says:
    September 10, 2007 at 11:06 pm

    First thing I noticed about Kotaku’s post was that he misspelled your last name at first. =P

  7. RLMMO :: View topic - Austin GDC stuff says:
    September 11, 2007 at 6:17 am

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  8. Areae, Inc. » Blog Archive » Areae at AGDC says:
    September 19, 2007 at 12:08 am

    […] panels that Raph participated in were Startup Lessons from Recent Online Games and Where Are the Biggest Online Gaming Opportunities?. In addition, You can read Raph’s general AGDC wrapup […]

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