Leadership Lessons Learned: From IC to First-Time Manager Stepping into your first manager role in game product management is both exciting and daunting. I still remember my first week — I thought I’d be spending my time on strategy and big-picture planning. Instead, I found myself juggling three competing priorities, a last-minute feature change, and a teammate in
Leadership The Ethics of Gacha: How Monetization Choices Shape Player Trust When Japanese mobile games popularized “gacha” mechanics in the early 2000s, few foresaw how randomized reward chests would reshape engagement across virtual worlds. Today, loot boxes—virtual packs of unknown items purchasable with real money—fuel as much as 40% of revenue for some publishers, thriving in both free-to-play mobile
