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Hi, dropping an idea. We do not want all the games, nor do I want my babies to play certain ones. What is up with subscription based? Every game system allows for individual purchases of games except this one. What’s wrong with selling things permanently… I bought this thinking the games we wanted could be purchased. Debating on whether to return it or just keep the originals

Posted by Mar K ·
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  • Arleigh Greenwald

    Team•

    Sep 8

    Hi Mar,

    Thanks for the question, and I hope you are enjoying the games you do love!

    This is a great article from David, our CEO and Co-founder: https://www.playthatmovesyou.com/p/why-subscription

  • Rusnak Creative

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    Sep 6

    Copy/Pasted from David Lee himself regarding this topic:

    “The promise of Play Pass is simple: we work our socks off to make new games and game updates, if you like what we do for the year, we hope to earn you as a customer for another year.

    We like this model alot. It's honest, simple, sustainable, no ads, no nags. It provides us the resources to build a library for the whole community of users. It fully aligns Nex's interest with our customers.

    While I understand the desire to purchase individual games, Nex would not be able to make such model sustainable. Sustainable is the keyword here.

    The a la carte purchase model is only viable when the underlying platform have 10s of millions of distribution, and have a developer ecosystem who would invest millions in each of the games and expects to sell millions of copies when they release it.

    The state of the Nex ecosystem is very different. We took the lesson learnt by Wii and Kinect before us. Our ex-Nintendo Wii, ex-Xbox Kinect advisor advise us against a la carte model.

    While we work with our partner Target to make Playground more giftable with the Sports Pack, there is no plan to make games available a la carte.”

    • Arleigh Greenwald

      Team•

      Sep 8

      Thanks for sharing!