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Silicon Knights: Social Gaming is a bubble about to burst
Posted on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 by Speed, source: IndustryGamers
Silicon Knights founder Denis Dyack believes social gaming is about to crash very hard.
His belief is that much like the entire internet bubble, the social gaming is currently being overhyped and on the verge of an explosion (in the bad way) unlike any the gaming industry has seen in a long time:
His belief is that much like the entire internet bubble, the social gaming is currently being overhyped and on the verge of an explosion (in the bad way) unlike any the gaming industry has seen in a long time:
"It is damaging traditional gaming for sure but... how it’s going to work out is anyone’s guess. The trend that I see is it’s probably going to be one of the biggest bubbles and explosions that our industry's seen in a long time and I think when it crashes it’s going to crash very hard. I don’t think there’s an economy there."
He continued, saying that there's way too much money being poured into social gaming and that this can't last:"I don’t know about Zynga – I think that’s a big micro, but I think that the amount of venture that’s being poured in, in general, that's most of the video game industry investment. As far as I know right now, it's going into pure social gaming. It looks like marketing to me. It doesn’t look like real gaming. And maybe it’ll change, I don’t know. It looks very, very dangerous. I think Zynga’s valuated more than some traditional publishers right now that have been in the industry for decades. I’m sorry, but I just don’t see it. It seems imaginary to me... it doesn’t look long term healthy to me,"
"And right now you’re seeing a lot of influx in venture and you’re seeing a lot of excitement and a lot of pie in the sky ideas, but when games actually have to start showing pure revenue and real ‘here’s how much we made and here’s how much it cost’ ...I think that industry is going to not last very long."
If you see that only EA has been outspokenly embracing "social gaming" (with buying PlayFish), I think he's quite right."And right now you’re seeing a lot of influx in venture and you’re seeing a lot of excitement and a lot of pie in the sky ideas, but when games actually have to start showing pure revenue and real ‘here’s how much we made and here’s how much it cost’ ...I think that industry is going to not last very long."
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