Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
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Re: Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
#2the press release doesn't give much context to what this is about - why are they reducing headcount? what's the story here?
Re: Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
#3the press release doesn't give much context to what this is about - why are they reducing headcount? what's the story here?
Inability to find / produce / buy another Angry Birds.
Re: Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
#4I guess they were not able to innovate enough. It was a good franchise, but it hasn't had the longevity of things like Minecraft or Halo.
Details:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=angry%20birds%2C%20mi...
I wonder what they could have done differently? They sure licensed enough IP to create Star Wars, Rio, etc variants. They tried expanding into freemium racing games. I wonder if there was a way forward for them that they missed?
Q: How does this affect the Angry Birds movie expected in July 2016? https://www.pehub.com/2014/08/angry-birds-creator-rovio-ceo-...
Re: Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
#5the press release doesn't give much context to what this is about - why are they reducing headcount? what's the story here?
In their words: "lower than expected growth". As Angry Birds were getting more and more popular, hundreds of people were hired to work on expanding the brand, but revenue levels did not increase in the same manner.
Re: Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
#6the press release doesn't give much context to what this is about - why are they reducing headcount? what's the story here?
Inability to find / produce / buy another Angry Birds.
My kid and I would still be playing Angry Birds and he would still be asking for the merch this Christmas if I hadn't become extremely disgusted with the constant push to make in-app purchases and buy other apps. It's before, during and after every board, every retry. I stopped playing, encouraged him to play other things and I eventually removed it from all our devices, it hasn't been missed since. They should have stuck with a free app (no ads, no in-app purchases) and made money from merchandise. They had a good thing going with the Star Wars TelePods except after spending an embarrassing amount on the figures to scan in we still had to deal with ads to buy weapons and tools.
Re: Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Inability to find / produce / buy another Angry Birds.
My kid and I would still be playing Angry Birds and he would still be asking for the merch this Christmas if I hadn't become extremely disgusted with the constant push to make in-app purchases and buy other apps. It's before, during and after every board, every retry. I stopped playing, encouraged him to play other things and I eventually removed it from all our devices, it hasn't been missed since. They should have…
Inauthenticity is truly an underestimated flaw.
Re: Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Inability to find / produce / buy another Angry Birds.
My kid and I would still be playing Angry Birds and he would still be asking for the merch this Christmas if I hadn't become extremely disgusted with the constant push to make in-app purchases and buy other apps. It's before, during and after every board, every retry. I stopped playing, encouraged him to play other things and I eventually removed it from all our devices, it hasn't been missed since. They should have…
I never appreciated how awful the modern gaming environment was until I had a kid. For little kids in particular, it's incredibly difficult for them to deal with accidentally clicking the "buy X now" buttons and back out of the purchase process.
Personally, I shifted my son and nephews/nieces to old video game consoles. They love the NES, N64 and ColecoVision that we found in my parent's attic, and there's no nickel and diming within the games!
Re: Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Inability to find / produce / buy another Angry Birds.
My kid and I would still be playing Angry Birds and he would still be asking for the merch this Christmas if I hadn't become extremely disgusted with the constant push to make in-app purchases and buy other apps. It's before, during and after every board, every retry. I stopped playing, encouraged him to play other things and I eventually removed it from all our devices, it hasn't been missed since. They should have…
Exactly the same experience here. My kids loved the game but constantly ended up in the app store. I removed all versions and explained to them why and that was that ... forgotten.
Re: Rovio Employee Negotiations Concluded
#10I guess they were not able to innovate enough. It was a good franchise, but it hasn't had the longevity of things like Minecraft or Halo. Details: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=angry%20birds%2C%20mi... I wonder what they could have done differently? They sure licensed enough IP to create Star Wars, Rio, etc variants. They tried expanding into freemium racing games. I wonder if there was a way forward for the…
They could have had a better-timed liquidity event, like Minecraft did.