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E30: The Economics of Game Development

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Send us a textEric develops an economic model to explore or exploit game development decisions, while Phil wants a block-grant style gate process to align incentives. Chris is back at Marvel Snap, and boogies with some new social casino mechanics.The team reviews a new Call of Duty matchmaking paper with some surprising and revealing data...

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