New tools empower players to create their own content in the form of mods/maps/items/game modes. UGC allows games to scale quickly and cost-effectively—rather than building everything in-house.
Sometimes we don’t quite process that billions of people on the planet get unlimited entertainment, voice and video calling, maps, restaurant reviews, weather, news, an encyclopedia, mail, messaging, and more for *free* just because 1-2% of us click an ad every now and then.
While any human contact increases the risk that coronavirus might spread, being outside, where there’s natural ventilation, and with ample space between people and groups, seems safer than any extended indoor gathering.
Right now, on TikTok, if you aren’t following someone, a little red + appears overlapping their icon. To follow them, you click that +, and when you do, it disappears. What if, instead, it were replaced by a TikTok Coin icon. Maybe every user gets 7 of these to doll out per week. And, of course, once you’ve used them all, it grays itself out, and,... See more