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Are You on the Right Version? Live Ops and QA
In the last decade, live ops has grown to become a key phase of a game’s life cycle. Live ops can (and should, if your game is successful!) last for years, and in the cases of several exceptionally popular games, we can see it continuing for over a decade. Live ops is a new game development phase that has become increasingly important with the rise of free-to-play games. However, although everyone is talking about it, there are almost no available guidelines on best practices. There is not even a unified explanation of what live ops means, as different disciplines in the gaming industry will look at it from different angles.
Throughout this chapter, we will get a bigger picture of what live ops ...
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