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Mobile game publishers spend $21M on backend tech | Metaplay
Metaplay said its survey of top-tier mobile game publishers revealed that they each spend more than $21 million to build backend tech.
Of those who had redeployed staff, 41% said that doing so had slowed the game development process, 34% said it had increased ‘crunch’ working practices, and 34% said this led to higher employee turnover. Teemu Haila, chief product officer at Metaplay, said in a statement, “As a company which has spent almost four years focused entirely on building backend tech for mobile games, even we had to do a double-take when we saw these stats. Matt Wilson, mobile gaming advisor and investor, said in a statement, “This research shows that building internal tech is becoming prohibitively expensive as well as distracting game-makers from their day jobs.
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