But if you give everyone a free trial you’ll have millions in “recurring revenue”, which you can tell your shareholders and inflate your share price.
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Feyd@programming.dev 3 days ago
They didn’t understand the only reason people used it was because it was really cheap. Most aren’t super hardcore and play games over a few months so it became cheaper to just buy games again. It’s stupid because they had no reason to try to make a sub model except that MBAs are morons and value recurring revenue more than just revenue in general
Venator@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It was great for trying out games you weren’t sure about. But I don’t wanna pay $30/month for that.
femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Yeah, if they made it like $10 per month and you could only rent 1 at a time that would be great. I would love a digital rental service to try out games.
tobz619@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I love that you’d be willing to pay $10/month to try out a game when demos (which I think should be mandatory) are free.
I remember being a kid on PS3 and playing the Just Cause 2 30min demo TO DEATH until I finally got my parents to cave and buy it for like £30 haha. Most recent example of a demo that converted me to a sale was FF7 Remake and I think Selaco would have me buying but I don’t buy early access games out of principle so I’m waiting on that one.
femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I grew up with blockbuster, there were many games I liked playing for a couple days and then I would be done with them. I don’t want a demo, I want to play short games or others for a bit and then get something new without paying for each game.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Piracy is the ultimate demo
sealhaslupus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
thats right, the average ‘gamer’ is casual. they’ll purchase a couple games per year and maybe a handful more on special.
gaming itself is a leisure activity so when other aspects of life starts getting expensive or free time is reduced then what gets dropped first is an overpriced subscription service.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 days ago
Yeah they really forgot games are something I would buy on a whim during good times. Now? I’m not going to spend even $60 on a game, or a subscription, until well after any game as released to make sure it’s worth it. I’d much rather replay red dead or mass effect or Skyrim again then spend $60 on some lame boring corporate game