{"id":16242,"date":"2012-04-21T00:07:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T22:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16242"},"modified":"2012-04-21T00:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T22:07:34","slug":"karma-based-pricing-models-for-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/21\/karma-based-pricing-models-for-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Karma-based pricing models for games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Slashdot<\/a> links to an interview with Gabe Newell<\/a>, of the Valve<\/a> fame. \u00a0I think this idea is pretty interesting:<\/p>\n

The issue that we’re struggling with quite a bit is something I’ve kind of talked about before, which is: how do you properly value people’s contributions to a community? … An example is \u2013 and this is something as an industry we should be doing better \u2013 is charging customers based on how much fun they are to play with<\/strong>. … \u201cSo, in practice, a really likable person in our community should get DOTA 2 for free, because of past behavior in Team Fortress 2. Now, a real jerk that annoys everyone, they can still play, but a game is full price and they have to pay an extra hundred dollars if they want voice.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Karma-based systems aren’t the easiest ones to figure out. \u00a0But they have plenty of potential. \u00a0Given enough will, effort, and tweaking, I think this can be done. \u00a0How well it will actually work – remains to be seen.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Slashdot links to an interview with Gabe Newell, of the Valve fame. \u00a0I think this idea is pretty interesting: The issue that we’re struggling with quite a bit is something I’ve kind of talked about before, which is: how do you properly value people’s contributions to a community? … An example is \u2013 and this … Continue reading Karma-based pricing models for games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11,18,62,1334],"tags":[1968,167,333],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-games","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-business","tag-ideas","tag-karma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t