My Big Stupid Mouth

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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