Video Game Business Models - The Biz

Subscription, Pay to Win, Premium... There are a lot of different ways that video games try to make money. The videogame industry hasn't had as long as movies and TV to settle into business models. Some of the ongoing experiments, could use so thought... Let's dig in. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:34 Retention Rules Them All 3:52 "Free" 5:54 Free plus Ads 7:09 Free plus MTX 11:09 Bounded and Unbounded Spend 13:24 Battle Pass 15:32 Premium (70 dollars) 16:24 Why not 40$? 18:18 High Frequency Premium 19:08 Premium plus DLC 21:01 Premium plus Service 22:17 Premium plus Service AND DLC 23:28 Is Everything a Service? 24:16 Subscription 25:40 Multigame Subscription 27:32 Coin Op 28:32 Crowdfunding 29:06 Bespoke Games 30:14 Changing Business Models 31:12 Summary