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![[Translation] Game economy design of Premium games through the example of a 4X strategy on PC](https://times42.com/media/6/4/1/7345641_640x200.jpg "[Translation] Game economy design of Premium games through the example of a 4X strategy on PC")
How to design an economy for your game? The answer to this question might require a series of lectures or articles. The fundamental difference in the approach is based, first of all, on monetization model: F2P or B2P. The second thing that defines the approach to developing an economy system is game genre. This article reviews the case of designing the game economy for a B2P (premium) game, which doesn’t involve earning on microtransactions. Read more
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![[Translation] The performance engineer: a detective licensed to kill… bottlenecks](https://times42.com/media/6/3/5/10833635_640x200.jpg "[Translation] The performance engineer: a detective licensed to kill… bottlenecks")
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