German games industry grows by 9% in 2018 YOY, driven by in-game purchases

[Mnementh]

Game-abonements, hardware and direct game purchases all dropping. Only growth in in-game purchases (which was already the biggest sector) by 28% and online subscriptions by whopping 97% (still not a big part of the market). I'm not sure what to think of it. It encourages the industry to bind us into subscription services and show us in-game purchases on every step, but not encouraging for the direct game selling companies.