Retail used to be the only model in which games could be sold for a very long time. Things are changing with digital downloads, free-to-play and so on, but DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson doesn’t think that developers should be distracted from what is the primary goal: making good games.
“It’s about the games, about the entertainment and about the fun,” Troedsson said to GDC Europe. “It’s not about the business model, it’s not about the platform we’re building on – it’s about how much fun we the gamers have when playing the game, and that’s been a real thread throughout the company’s history.”
“Business models will come and go, and platforms will be born and they will die,” he said. “Is the future dedicated hardware or is it streaming from the cloud It doesn’t matter – if you have great entertainment and you create great games, this will span all that, and it will survive all the transitions, because one thing’s for sure – things will change.”
Source: Eurogamer
