Speaker Spotlight
"Live ops is not a game with events, it is a game revolving around events"
We speak to Metaplay co-founder and CPO Teemu Haila about live ops ahead of his panel at PGC London
Company Profile
Metaplay
Website
www.metaplay.io
About
Metaplay’s mission is to bring the power to deliver top-grossing games to every ambitious mobile game maker. The Metplay SDK is a complete backend solution with everything top-tier game developers need to make and manage great games more simply, more reliably and more professionally than they could anywhere else - from their first line of code through to liveops and player support.
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Henri Viitanen
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Chris Wilson
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Mika Patiala
Co-Founder & VP of Business
Chris Wilson
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Jurjen Biewenga
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Teemu Haila
Co-founder and CPO
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New Tech
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Teemu Haila of Metaplay: “When shipping modern F2P games, hope is not a plan.”
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