“The future couldn’t be brighter for D2C”: FastSpring’s Chip Thurston on gaming’s changing platform economy

For years, the mobile market grew used to operating within the big-name ecosystems of Apple and Google, abiding by their platforms' rules regarding how developers could reach players, process payments and, of course, what part of the fee goes to the platform holder.
That landscape has changed drastically over the past two years. Regulatory pressure, along with court rulings, has seen these platforms change and has opened the way for more direct-to-consumer strategies. ... [
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