Abonnementer, hvor du betaler litt hver måned for ekstra fordeler og adgang til en katalog av spill er meget innbringende for utgivere. Nettopp derfor kaster blant annet EA, Ubisoft og spesielt Microsoft seg over nettopp denne forretningsmodellen, men sånn ser ikke Bandai Namco på det.
Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe's Senior Vice President for Marketing, Digital, og Content, Hervé Hoerdt, har sagt til MCV at det nødvendigvis ikke er så bra for bransjen som man skulle tro.
"Subscriptions are more of a threat, that's for sure. Because the business model behind subscriptions will be based on two things: the number of hours played on your game compared to the total hours people played, and the number of games played compared to the total number of games. So, in the value chain, we see a lot of cascading and the value in the end is too low for us to be able to invest further in the content. So that's a threat we see. But otherwise, generally speaking, it's exciting, it's appealing, it's more opportunities going forwards."
Er du enig i det Hoerdt sier, og hvilke spillabonnementer har du?