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."

Re:What's the difference between Valve and Steam?

[larry bagina]

Testing the cafeteria, maybe. What I'm trying to say is: Gabe is fat.

Re:| Dream

[arth1]

Also, any system can be exploited. If done wrong, you will find a game/MMO where the griefers get free monthly costs, while anyone who isn't in the clique gets penalized as undesirable.

More evidence for my belief that all gaming threads degenerate into discussing EVE Online.