{"id":304,"date":"2010-11-22T18:46:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=304"},"modified":"2020-11-23T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:34:01","slug":"games-are-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/games-are-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Are Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become generally negative on most pure software projects. \u00a0I think it&#8217;s very hard to build large value there, for a variety of reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s insanely crowded; lots of people code these days<\/li>\n<li>Open-source stacks make it easier than ever to crank things out<\/li>\n<li>Cloud-based hosting (e.g. EC2, S3) removes most up-front capital requirements<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re successful, it&#8217;s easy to get copied<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <strong>great <\/strong>time for consumers &#8212; the innovation rate feels higher than ever. \u00a0It&#8217;s just tough for entrepreneurs: \u00a0there will be some nice software exits, but returns are becoming so skewed, it&#8217;s more like a lottery than anything based on skill.<\/p>\n<p>One exception to all of this: \u00a0 games.<\/p>\n<p>Games are different, for a variety of reasons. \u00a0One big reason is content: \u00a0 many games aren&#8217;t pure software projects, they&#8217;re really engines wrapped with levels, puzzles, art, 3d models, textures, sound effects, designs, characters, AI, story lines, scripts, music, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the rules a bit different. \u00a0Content takes real time and money to create, and it&#8217;s harder to copy (copyright law tends to apply more). You can enjoy the online gambling games such as <a href=\"https:\/\/prediksitogel55.com\/\">prediksi togel<\/a> that can bet and make money. Playing online casino games like <a href=\"https:\/\/clubvip777.com\/web\/happyluke\/\">happyluke<\/a> is getting really popular in the gambling community. However, content-centric games, like movies, can have limited re-play value. \u00a0Which in turn leads to a franchise strategy for the biggest titles (e.g. Halo on Xbox).<\/p>\n<p>So, one question: \u00a0will we see any large, content-centric, non-game software businesses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become generally negative on most pure software projects. \u00a0I think it&#8217;s very hard to build large value there, for a variety of reasons: It&#8217;s insanely crowded; lots of people code these days Open-source stacks make it easier than ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/games-are-different\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}