Bernd Lauert
Banned
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidt...growth-is-bringing-developers-some-surprises/
Looks like this business model might be profitable after all. Papa bless.
On average, according to Bond, Game Pass subscribers spend 20% more time playing games, play 30% more games, play 40% more genres and, crucially, spend about 20% more on gaming overall.
All No More Robots’ games have had a different experience when they hit Game Pass. Online multiplayer game Descenders, he says, was perfectly tuned for the service, and it exploded as soon as it dropped both in terms of overall play and traditional sales, which he says quadrupled.
“The effect that we see is that people are playing on Game Pass, they're telling their friends: ‘hey come play this game with me’, they don't want another subscription, so they just go buy the game. We end up getting a ton of players on Game Pass, and we sell a ton as well.”
“The main thing for us is that sales didn't go down,” says Rose. “ You worry that you make the thing free and no one will buy it anymore: that didn't happen.”
“We get so many people telling us that they bought their games as well as playing them on Game Pass. Other people saying they feel like they don't own it if it's just on Game Pass. So they buy it! That, to me, seems crazy!”
Looks like this business model might be profitable after all. Papa bless.