Digital Extremes president encourages publishers to support GAAS in the long term
, by Thibaut
As we know, some big publishers tend to get rid of GAAS that don't go so well from the start. For example, this is exactly what happened with Electronic Arts' Anthem, which went the way of the dodo way too soon.
In an interview witch VGC, Steve Sinclair, CEO of Digital Extremes (Warframe), had this to say. He wants to encourage big publishers to support GAAS in the long term, even when they have a difficult launch.
"They think the release is make or break, and it’s not. They have a financial way to be persistent, and they never do it. It comes out, doesn’t work and they throw it away. Isn’t that a shame when you put so many years of your life into iterating on those systems or building technology or building the start of a community, and because the operating costs are high, you get terrified when you see the numbers drop and you leave."
"We’ve seen this with amazing releases that I think have massive potential, and I think they eject too soon."
Source: videogameschronicle.com