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new Community Dev newsletter is out! 📰🔥 how do u keep players engaged in ur community space? what keeps them from leaving?? CHURN RATE??? that's the topic of today's post, plus 13 links for community/marketing-related job openings~ read now 👇 thevtran.kit.com/posts/gettin...
Getting players to stick around ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #49
Learn about churn rate and increasing player retention in community spaces.
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If you're part of the BioWare or Sims community and want to talk about how those studios' queer characters and themes have impacted you and your fears for those series moving forward after this sale, I'd love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. Can be reached here or email kshepard@kotaku.com
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 23h agoWell, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
in case you were wondering how I feel about the saudi arabia deal going through
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d agoThe ghouls who run EA deserve to burn aftermath.site/ea-saudi-arabi...
Fields of Mistria is launching fully into 1.0 tomorrow!!! I'm so proud of the team for not only making a game happen (impossible task) but also making it one of the best games ever (great news for me AND you!!)
"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo
![The firm is fully owned by Jared Kushner and has a staff of approximately 20 people.[2][5] By 2024, the firm had returned no profits to its investors.[6] The firm has been controversial due to conflicts of interests arising from Kushner soliciting funds from Middle Eastern governments while also working as an envoy having direct and indirect dealings with those governments in his role in the second Trump administration.[7] According to reporting by Bloomberg News, investors in the firm do so with the expectation of influencing the Trump administration.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2jjromh55tf7pp7s4hsvurf4/bafkreihebdzjog2hp37o2q3enjyrsi46btqktev76ogpneczsrrzl55fo4)
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 23h agoEA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest
someone let me do an fe post awakening retrospective I'd love to talk to the vas that returned since awakening and how much bigger the game has gotten. Plus that one guy trying to get every 3H Va autograph
AFNarratives@afnarratives.blacksky.app · yesterdayLet me tell you about a little goated game called Fire Emblem Awakening that saved the series...
don’t make me tap the sign 👉 lookingfor.game
GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · yesterdayThe industry makes great games, but nobody can find them. Algorithms built to surface content are increasingly rewarding volume, familiarity, and short-term engagement over quality or originality. https://bit.ly/44VFYO9
The Golden Age of Airbenders. I painted this image for the flashback sequences in Avatar Aang, depicting Sonam’s ancient Airbender civilization in its heyday.
TOMORROW MORNING 10 AM SEXY DRAGON IS COMING TO TOWN
Buddy the Elf (Will Ferrell) Yells Santa!
ALT: Buddy the Elf (Will Ferrell) Yells Santa!
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ananth@ananthhirsh.bsky.social · yesterdayMistria's full 1.0 release arrives tomorrow, 8/5! @aidosaur.bsky.social & I have been working on it since 2019-- seven years!! -- as Senior Writer & Character/Concept Artist! I wrote thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue... I hope they make you laugh and feel things! See you in the Fields! 💖
Mistria's full 1.0 release arrives tomorrow, 8/5! @aidosaur.bsky.social & I have been working on it since 2019-- seven years!! -- as Senior Writer & Character/Concept Artist! I wrote thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue... I hope they make you laugh and feel things! See you in the Fields! 💖
If you’ve ever wondered hey why do these characters have actual interiority and also, why are they all so damn sexy, here’s your answer
ananth@ananthhirsh.bsky.social · yesterdayMistria's full 1.0 release arrives tomorrow, 8/5! @aidosaur.bsky.social & I have been working on it since 2019-- seven years!! -- as Senior Writer & Character/Concept Artist! I wrote thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue... I hope they make you laugh and feel things! See you in the Fields! 💖
Goodbye Volcano High is part of Telltale Games’ Choices Matter Festival! 🥳 Just Fang’s luck: they finally figure out what they want out of life, and the world’s about to explode. What will you do at the end of an era? store.steampowered.com/sale/Choices...
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I just really hope this new protag has SOME personally lord. I'm biased towards Robin but they could be a little shit at times it was fun
It's astonishing to me that The Mermaid Mask has only been out for 2 and a half weeks and we've already got over 2000 reviews on Steam... (and 99% positive!)
i should write about Fire Emblem... And finish Engage (I didn't dislike it but I definitely fell off) I think FE is at it's best when it's trying to do a really complex story (3H) or a deceptively simple one (FE: Awakening) but this accounts for the player character too.
My main takeaway from that Fortune's Weave Direct is that I'm glad they let you switch between campaigns now so I don't have to have decision paralysis in which one I choose, telling myself I'll do the other campaigns later and just never doing them.
every single nintendo direct is written like its advertising the first video game ever made. in this “game of strategy” you can choose to attack with swords [8 second clip of a guy attacking with a sword] or with spells [8 second clip of a guy attacking with a spell]
*puts up my talk to me about Fire Emblem sign* i could replay Awakening while I wait for Fortune's Weave...
begging to get the names of some of these FE artists because some of the black people designs look really really good????
pre-ordering the Dagdan Edition of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave yesterday pre direct (I think the Nintendo store still has copies?) was one of the best decisions I've ever made
