Interview: Fishlabs talks publishing, pirates, iPhone and N-Gage
Michael Schade gives sister site PocketGamer.biz the lowdown
This was a momentous week in mobile gaming, particularly if you work for Fishlabs, and only slightly less so if you like racing games. After careful deliberation, we decided to make Rally Master Pro the third mobile title to receive a perfect Pocket Gamer 10.
No doubt you're keen to hear from the people who managed to assemble this work of indisputable racing perfection.
For your delectation, then, Fishlabs CEO Michael Schade has been chatting candidly with our own Stuart Dredge over on sister site PocketGamer.biz about such topics as the occasional benevolence of piracy and the company's troubled relationship with publishers and operator decks.
Here's an excerpt:
"Of course we've had complaints from operators," says Schade. "They say we're taking the business away from them! And I just say 'What, us, tiny Fishlabs, are taking the traffic business away from you, the operators? Which, by the way, we don't get a revenue share from. Y'know what? We don't care about your traffic business!'" He goes on: "It's like they live in an ivory tower! They complain that we take traffic business from them, but we don't get a share of that traffic, so why should I care?"
Interesting stuff. Head over to PocketGamer.biz for the full article.
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