The first quarter was not the most successful for Ubisoft in terms of sales. However, the company is going to compensate for this by attracting a new audience to its popular franchises. It’s about motivating users of free-to-play projects to buy premium AAA games in the same universe.Ubisoft CFO Frederick Duguet spoke about the new strategy.

Ubisoft told about the changes in its development strategy. The publisher intends to release freeplay offshoots of its key franchises. However, we are not talking about reducing the number of AAA titles, but about the approach that Activision has been using in recent years to develop the Call of Duty series.Ubisoft announced this during a conversation with investors after the publication of the annual report.

Now Xbox One remains the only console where you need to pay to play freeplay titles. If the disadvantages for gamers are obvious, then what is the benefit of such a policy for Microsoft and will they be able to abandon it in the future?Kotaku drew attention to this problem after the developers of Rocket League announced the transition to frituplay.

GTX Corp is threatening to sue a Russian developer. He is accused of violating a patent for one of the main mechanics of freeplay – the creation and sale of in-game currency. The plaintiff is ready to solve the problem in a pre-trial manner for money. To what extent this is a common situation and what a lawyer advises in such cases to do, – I understood App2Top.ru .

The authors of the browser clicker Clicker Heroes from the Playsaurus studio will make the second part of the game paid. “It will be ethical. We made a lot of money on microtransactions, and now it’s embarrassing for us,” explained Playsaurus.

What to pay attention to for a game developer who decided to implement gacha,” says Adam Telfer, co–founder of Chatterbox Games.

How to work correctly on events in free–play games, what should not be done, and what, on the contrary, should be paid attention to, – he told App2Top.ru the leading game designer of Rocket Jump Andrey Tarasenko.

Where to start when you undertake the creation of the game economy of a free-play game, – Konstantin Sakhnov, director of the game department of Rocket Jump studio, told on our pages.

The president of Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima (Tatsumi Kimishima) said that the revenue from sales of Super Mario Run on iOS “did not meet their expectations.”

How to avoid the transformation of a shareware game into a pipeline for the submission of content, – he told Michail Katkoff, head of FunPlus Studio. Translated the text, we share.