24 July, 2009 |

Game Producer: Here’s My Old New Idea On How (Portal) Games Could Be Priced

pSome time ago I posted a blog post with thoughts about a href=http://www.gameproducer.net/2009/07/06/how-could-all-games-be-free-to-play/how games could be free to play/a and the comments and further pondering got me thinking about a new type of system for pricing. I don#8217;t know if it could work, but I think this type of approach could be interesting to try out. /p
pHere#8217;s the idea in a nutshell:/p
ul
liThere would be this Big Game Portal that would have all the games in the world. Well, as many of them as possible anyway.
/li
liMembership for this Big Game Portal would cost $9.95 per month (maybe with a free 30 period trial).
/li
liGames wouldn#8217;t be multiplayer games - instead of one big game (think of World of Warcraft) to play, you could play any games.
/li
liDevelopers would get a cut based on how many people play their games.
/li
/ul
pThe idea is simply to #8220;play all games for $9.95 per month#8221; (or $6.95 or $14.95 per month could be tested as well). For 10 bucks, it could be a fun deal for players. For some games it probably wouldn#8217;t work, but I think for many developers this could work - and it could mean extra revenue for them as well. For portal, well, it depends./p
pI#8217;m thinking that if WoW has like more than 10 million players (just a figure I heard some day), then perhaps we could see 10 million or 100 million players each paying $10, I think there could be interest from developers too (that#8217;s 1 000 million bucks to be shared among the developers#8230; per month - plus some for the portal)./p
pThe games that would be played most would get the most revenues./p
pYour comments #038; thoughts?/p
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