Developer’s claim that Thai’s military junta is ‘great’ is about facing down uncertainty

From the outside, Thailand looks like a messy, dangerous place under a military cabal. But at least one developer in that country didn’t leave after a coup d’état in 2014 ousted a democratically elected government that many Thai people considered corrupt.

Earlier this week, I reported that Playlab chief executive officer Jakob Lykkegaard Pedersen said that the Thai coup was great for mobile gaming during a presentation at the Casual Connect Conference in Singapore. I later asked him for more insights about this. Pedersen has spent the last seven years in Thailand, and he didn’t consider moving during the coup or the following military junta that continues to run the nation’s government.