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sergiodaly on 21 August 2012

i like sony, EA, take 2, konami games... so 400 per year to play all their games? that not a good deal at all... i don't have time to play them all, i don't want to miss on lots of their games, and i don't spend that much per year on games... about half that...



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Jazz2K on 21 August 2012

Prices are a suggestion. If you want to play only one game there would still be the option to buy it a full price. Nobody says that it would only be this option. Also Since I play a lot of EA games I could pay for EA games but buy one Capcom game...



Mnementh on 21 August 2012
Crono141 said:
Back in the days of yore (Circa 2005, I want to say), Time Warner had a great service called GameTap, for PC. It was a subscription service that came with a great UI and gave you unlimited access to thousands of PC and emulated platform games, old and new. It ran something like 50 bucks a year, and was literally the Best Thing Ever (tm). Think of Steam, only with a subscription instead of having to purchase everything.

Then TimeWarner sold it to some UK company that completely fscked it over and it became garbage.

TL:DR, yes, I absolutely would pay a subscription to a service with unlimited access to games like that.


You would pay Gameloft if they would do such an option for their games?



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twesterm on 21 August 2012
aikohualda said:
twesterm said:

The problem is how do you decide how that money gets split among the developers?

With many games and third party developers, generally the publisher makes their money back and then developers start getting some sort of royaly from each game (and there are many variations on that). So if EA were take $100 from you to play their backlog, how do you decide who gets the money?

Should that be counted as a sell for all those major games listed? What about the smaller ones? What about the ones I never play? How much of that subscription fee goes to EA and gets split among the chosen developers?

It seems like something like that would only screw the developers.

it is similar to old movies that your cable company is showing on your tv


Movie royalties and game royalties are two different beasts and are handled differently.



 

aikohualda on 21 August 2012
twesterm said:
aikohualda said:
twesterm said:

The problem is how do you decide how that money gets split among the developers?

With many games and third party developers, generally the publisher makes their money back and then developers start getting some sort of royaly from each game (and there are many variations on that). So if EA were take $100 from you to play their backlog, how do you decide who gets the money?

Should that be counted as a sell for all those major games listed? What about the smaller ones? What about the ones I never play? How much of that subscription fee goes to EA and gets split among the chosen developers?

It seems like something like that would only screw the developers.

it is similar to old movies that your cable company is showing on your tv


Movie royalties and game royalties are two different beasts and are handled differently.

how do you suppose they will handle it then?



 

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Crono141 on 21 August 2012
aikohualda said:
twesterm said:
aikohualda said:
twesterm said:

The problem is how do you decide how that money gets split among the developers?

With many games and third party developers, generally the publisher makes their money back and then developers start getting some sort of royaly from each game (and there are many variations on that). So if EA were take $100 from you to play their backlog, how do you decide who gets the money?

Should that be counted as a sell for all those major games listed? What about the smaller ones? What about the ones I never play? How much of that subscription fee goes to EA and gets split among the chosen developers?

It seems like something like that would only screw the developers.

it is similar to old movies that your cable company is showing on your tv


Movie royalties and game royalties are two different beasts and are handled differently.

how do you suppose they will handle it then?


The same way GameTap handled it.



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aikohualda on 21 August 2012
Crono141 said:
aikohualda said:
twesterm said:
aikohualda said:
twesterm said:

The problem is how do you decide how that money gets split among the developers?

With many games and third party developers, generally the publisher makes their money back and then developers start getting some sort of royaly from each game (and there are many variations on that). So if EA were take $100 from you to play their backlog, how do you decide who gets the money?

Should that be counted as a sell for all those major games listed? What about the smaller ones? What about the ones I never play? How much of that subscription fee goes to EA and gets split among the chosen developers?

It seems like something like that would only screw the developers.

it is similar to old movies that your cable company is showing on your tv


Movie royalties and game royalties are two different beasts and are handled differently.

how do you suppose they will handle it then?


The same way GameTap handled it.

and gametap is different from cable company or netflix which shows old movies or tv series vs playing old games?



 

Jazz2K on 21 August 2012

I think it would be really expensive to include new releases in this. Maybe including only classics and previous generation games could work out. Anyway I thought it would be a great alternative to know and play more games than having to buy them all a pieces.



twesterm on 22 August 2012
aikohualda said:
twesterm said:
aikohualda said:
twesterm said:

The problem is how do you decide how that money gets split among the developers?

With many games and third party developers, generally the publisher makes their money back and then developers start getting some sort of royaly from each game (and there are many variations on that). So if EA were take $100 from you to play their backlog, how do you decide who gets the money?

Should that be counted as a sell for all those major games listed? What about the smaller ones? What about the ones I never play? How much of that subscription fee goes to EA and gets split among the chosen developers?

It seems like something like that would only screw the developers.

it is similar to old movies that your cable company is showing on your tv


Movie royalties and game royalties are two different beasts and are handled differently.

how do you suppose they will handle it then?

I don't think they ever would even bother trying to handle it in the first place.