http://blog.ted.com/7-talks-on-the-benefits-of-gaming/
Curt
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is fascinating seeing business evolution in action.
>
> A lot of the AAA game companies seem to be struggling with maintaining
> their size and advantages compared to smaller and/or more recent players.
> The big organizations have evolved from their nimble and inventive past to
> become lumbering and risk-averse. They grew to take advantage of economies
> of scale only to find that they needed to avoid changing their formula for
> success or risk losing the scale of their economy. There are parallels in
> other business domains, which now that I think about it, are all in the
> entertainment business - publishing, television, and movie-making.
>
> Ray Parks
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> On Jul 3, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
>
> Well the game world drama continues- hmm only time will tell what this
> meens:
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/e/150702/atvi8-k.html
>
> In case others don't know: this has been a terrible year for Activision
> and Blizzard
> (Aka WOW, Heroes of the Storm, Destininy and of course Call of Duty.)
>
> Blizzard in 6 months has seen it's top Project Managers leave to Atari,
> and Bioware and 3 weeks ago Blizzards COO quit to go to a unknown
> competitor speculated to be Red Dawn (God of Wars)
>
> Activision's COO is rumoured to be quitting for Gearbox. (Borderlands
> series)
>
> As I don't know how many on Wedtech are gamers or Org Psych Wonks.
> I've been keeping tabs on this as I'm a gamer (so what) and into
> webdesign-
> Plus i'm curious what other peoples opinions are.
>
> Might be worth waching as a live case of complexity (kind of), how does
> this play out can the various people involved get the company back on
> track and if so how.
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