# Gies | Video Games Industry Executive Summary

## Emmanuel Rosier

Director of Market Intelligence at Newzoo. Previously at EA across demand planning, Asia publishing, and strategic growth. I write and analyze gaming industry trends for executives and investors.

## Posts and Insights

### Emmanuel Rosier (5h)

*Polygon’s sharpest take this week: 20 hours is the perfect length for a video game. Not 60, not the 100-hour open world that has become the default brag.*

Treat it as an economics claim, not a taste one. Most players never finish long single-player games; Steam and console achievement data has shown that for years. Every hour of content pa…

### Emmanuel Rosier (1d)

*Roblox hackers have stopped stealing items. They steal entire games now.*

The method is social engineering aimed at developers, not players. A fake job offer arrives over Discord, the developer runs a file dressed up as a project tool, and within hours the attackers own the group, move the game to a new group they control, and drain the Ro…

### Emmanuel Rosier (4d)

*Epic gives away Fortnite's new Sprite creatures for free. Players are still paying real money on eBay to get the rare ones, and Epic has had to publicly remind everyone that buying and selling them violates its rules.*

That gap is the interesting part. Fortnite added Pokemon-style collecting in Chapter 7 Season 3: find Sprites, grind a cur…