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Game More people will be paid to play games, Wired predicts

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Anybody see this article in Wired?
"Paid to Play: Videogamers Are the Grim Future of Work." The author predicts that more low-fill out game worlds and create an audience for the whales who buy elite gear and armor and such in games like "Clash Royale." It's "free to play" but brings in $2.1 million a day from a very small percentage of the players with money to blow and egos to stoke. One study found that just 0.2 percent of players make 48 percent of all the purchases in these games. So the game companies need more gamers to keep the worlds alive so the whales can keep spending

Face It, Meatsack: Pro Gamer Will Be the Only Job Left
 
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