PSA: NPR Features Warframe and Digital Extremes
An uplifting story to help with all the bad news we've been hearing.
Head over to the NPR podcast called The Indicator from Planet Money and take 10 minutes to listen to the interview with Rebecca Ford. She tells the inspiring story of how Digital Extremes avoided shutting down by pivoting Warframe into a live service with a F2P business model. The 10-minute episode is called:
🗺️ Forever games: the economics of the live service model
Full disclosure: Warframe is the F2P game on which I've spent by far the most IRL money. I highly recommend it to my PVE tribe. No, I’m not biased at all. 😛
I've been writing about the economics of game development along with other aspects of our chosen profession. Here are some links. 🙂