Back in April, Sega Sammy announced that it will acquire Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment for 706 million Euros (about $776 million) to help with its expansion in the mobile market. Today, Sega has confirmed that the acquisition is complete and Rovio has joined Sega Group.
They went from ‘1 dollar to get the full game’, with starwars deals and so on to ‘generic p2w for whales’.
The innovation wasn’t here anymore and they shot themselves in the foot with dumb pricing/gameplay.
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Wild. I remember Angry Birds was everywhere, almost Pokemon-levels of public appeal and generating wheelbarrows of money.
And then poof, like beanie babies and tamogatchis.
Your username is a bold-faced lie.
They went from ‘1 dollar to get the full game’, with starwars deals and so on to ‘generic p2w for whales’. The innovation wasn’t here anymore and they shot themselves in the foot with dumb pricing/gameplay.