{"id":96557,"date":"2019-07-12T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/346553"},"modified":"2019-07-12T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:04:00","slug":"controversial-freelance-firm-fiverr-opens-game-services-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/12\/controversial-freelance-firm-fiverr-opens-game-services-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial freelance firm Fiverr opens game services store"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Freelance marketplace” firm Fiverr has launched a new store for game development services<\/a>. Debuting one month after the company’s initial public offering, the store advertises a mix of development and streaming-focused services, ranging from Unity and Unreal development to more fringe services like game coaching and setting up Discord bots. <\/p>\n

Fiverr’s cropped up in the game development space before, with more than one developer using its services<\/a> to secure cheap freelance art or other creative assets.<\/p>\n

Before reaching out to freelancers on Fiverr however, developers should know that the company has invited controversy both for its unpopular advertising<\/a> and arguments that it’s depressing the wages of freelance workers. <\/p>\n

A quick scan of Fiverr’s game-focused store shows game art and UI\/UX freelancers offering their services starting around $30, with Unity development services starting at less than $200.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman says it’s seen an uptick in game developers using the service in the last year, but as Game Workers Unite spokesperson Marijam Did\u017egalvyt\u0117 explained to Newsweek<\/a>, “when the market dictates how much a person’s value is worth, contractors are encouraged to compete against each other and undervalue their work.”<\/p>\n

Fiverr previously made headlines<\/a> in the video game industry for being the platform that YouTuber PewDiePie used to promote anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Freelance marketplace” firm Fiverr has launched a new store for game development services. Debuting one month after the company’s initial public offering, the store advertises a mix of development and streaming-focused services, ranging from Unity and Unreal development to more fringe services like game coaching and setting up Discord bots.  Fiverr’s cropped up in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}