are “free” games of the month (PS+, Xbox Live, Epic Game Store) actually free? Are the developers giving unlimited copies to the platform for them to hand out/are the developers making money?
In: Economics
I don’t know about other services, xbox let’s you keep the game forever even if you stop paying for the Gold subscription, if you at the point of time had Gold access and claimed the game its yours. The details of the deals with publishers/developers are not known and it is speculated it varies between titles. Indie games are most likely bought in one time lump sum, big titles are probably bought based on the actual volume claimed, e.g. 2 dollars per claimed copy up to 1 million and amount per copy decreases with volume, so if game gets downloaded 5 million times, anything above 1mil is costing Microsoft less than the initial price per copy, e.g. 1,50 per copy up to 3mil, 1USD per copy above 3mil and so on.
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