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Session Name: F2P the Wrong Way: Age of Empires Online
Speaker(s): Kevin Perry
Company Name(s): Microsoft
Track / Format: Business, Marketing & Management

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Overview: In August 2011, Microsoft released the Age of Empires Online, an MMORTS using a new business model: free-to-play. The game was okay at launch, but the business model was a disaster. In this talk, Microsoft executive producer Kevin Perry will detail what went wrong with the model, and more importantly, how the team changed the model and the product into a successful game as a service while the game was still live.

GDC Europe 2013

Kevin Perry

Microsoft

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Business, Marketing & Management

Business & Marketing