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A new way to pay to play. Almost Free to play (Brainstorm)
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I had a dream last night, lol I know I need to get a life. But hear me out. I wanted to start a thread to brainstorm some new P2P/F2P models.
Here was the brain fart I had while in mid slumber.
P2P model:
1) I am suprised to see that a game hasnt partnered up with VISA or another card company and offer things like. Use your card for purchases and have credit applied to your game account, Similar to cash back programs.
2) Similar to above but adds a small gaming tax to your final purchase (maybe .2%/per dollar something small)
F2P model:
1) Similar to above, instead it sends anonymous info to a database, and stores things like what you bought, what days, how much you spent, what store, etc. This way the game company can sell this info to other companys for demographic purposes etc. Perhaps giving you some cash shop currency everytime you use it.
I dunno it was just a dream I had, I think some of these would be kinda cool.
What kinda models can you come up with?
Comments
Not even WoW would have enough players that VISA would be intersted in partnering with them for something like that. But personally I'm suprised there aren't more ad-supported computer games.
EDIT: Looks like I was wrong about how big a business would need to be for VISA to partner with it /EDIT
WoW does have a visa card like that. See the link here from the offical website. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/services/rewards-visa/
Ok, my bad this only shows you all how much I got into and cared for WoW. I did not know they came up with a card.
I think it would be great to see one for a f2p game however. Doesnt have to be a VISA partner, or maybe it would I don't know about such things. Swiping the card before you make your purchases, bought with your money with cash or whatever type of transaction you wanted. You guys know what I'm talking about. A card like the ones for some grocery stores, the keychain ones. But not for just one store, for any purchase at any store. It wouldnt be used for discounts, just for sending the anonymous info to a database. In turn the publisher of the game sells access to the database to companies. Its about time we make them pay a subscription fee wouldnt you say?
Anyways I dunno, I have some crazy dreams sometimes.
Name your own price! model:
Standard sub fee of lets say $15.00/month gets you all apects of the game + some cash shop currency (I like what CoH is doing with their model, however I dont agree with some things, like gimping us invention access but anyways..LOL) After this you can name your own price to pay per month. The less you pay per month the less cash shop currency you earn, paying monthly still yeild all aspects of the game. I say this because your in a sort of contract with the game to pay every month. Cash shop currency would be for ppl who dont want to pay monthly, which they can buy separate. If you dont pay monthly you can unlock systems of the game with cash shop currency. Just like any other cash shop game. Cash shop would also have some things for the ppl to buy that pay monthly.
I like this too it still gives us some flexibility with out too many restrictions.
Sorry lol brainstorming...I'll stop for now.
P.S. I am the worst at typing/spelling/grammer bear with me!
Whoops just had another brain fart!
The Bundle model:
We all know publishers put out more then one game, how about we bundle things together saving us some cash. Like what telephone companies are doing, with internet access, and sat tv. Get a sub to Aion, CoH, etc. for x /per month.
Ok seriously I'm done for now...=P
LoL the Marketing Model:
Make your own game commercial, with you playing your game. Post it to youtube or something, you get a months access to the game. I dunno....Each month the publisher picks the best one. Could be a monthly contest event. I dunno just spitting out ideas.