Trying to leverage LinkedIn and participating in a discussion about parenting, revenue models, and publisher trust may have recently landed me deeper in enemy territory than I intended to go. Get the full story, hear a good rule of thumb for dealing with publishers, and learn a two-word phrase that lets you know to stop listening to anyone immediately.
Show notes
Highs and lows in leveraging LinkedIn
- GaryVee swears by it, but he’s popular everywhere
- GameDev tags are relatively quiet and full of self-promotion
- Too many dreamers looking for free labor
- Engagement/conversion is awful
- There are decent tips on using it professionally here
Article: The £900 bill from my child’s Roblox gaming
- Rachel Davies – TheTimes.co.uk – https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-900-bill-from-my-childs-roblox-gaming-ccjjkdmrz
- Most of article behind paywall, intention clear
- Davies is “generally against online gaming, BUT…”
- Several children, one or more parents working from home
- Let 8-year-old play Roblox with insufficient supervision
- Says child had no idea they were spending real money
Discussion from LinkedIn
- Claim: Game designers are seeking insane profits by exploiting players
- Over 70% of all games revenue comes from IAP (unverified)
- AI models developed by Ivy League PhDs are preying on you and your children to carefully extract money in-game
- The industry should ask itself not how to improve models, but whether it should be doing this
- The industry needs to “self-regulate” in the manner we saw in the 90s and the formation of the ESRB
In this episode
- More to consider on the claims and ideas above
- What parents say to manipulate you
- Why key executives in games are helping the media create the screen time boogeyman
- How parents and consumers should look at any publisher
- Parental responsibility pertaining to software
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