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Valve's Newell: One-Price-For-Everyone Business Model 'Broken'
Fysx writes with recent comments from Valve co-founder Gabe Newell about how he thinks the traditional video game business model is flawed:
"The industry has this broken model, which is one price for everyone. That’s actually a bug, and it’s something that we want to solve through our philosophy of how we create entertainment products. What you really want to do is create the optimal pricing service for each customer and see what’s best for them. We need to give customers, all of them, a robust set of options regarding how they pay for their content. An example is – and this is something as an industry we should be doing better – is charging customers based on how much fun they are to play with. Some people, when they join a server, a ton of people will run with them. Other people, when they join a server, will cause others to leave. We should have a way of capturing that. We should have a way of rewarding the people who are good for our community."
the cable and sat co need ideas like this no big packs of channels smaller packs with more choice is need and I'm not talking about tiers.
The forced bundling of big channels packs is driving people out of the cable market altogether.
You've got to love the irony of posting this reply to a post detailing the issue of karma whoring, only to have it modded flamebait.
Well done, moderators. Once again, you completely miss the mark.
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