In-Game Purchases Quotes

In the free-to-play industry, the most money-making games are often coming from making people fighting against each other and really hating each other and wanting to revenge, so they spend more money to dominate.

I think free-to-play is both exciting and also really dangerous.

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

If you really care about a game, spending a couple of minutes setting up payment is perfectly reasonable. It's certainly happened with 'Fortnite.'

Using Roblox is free but the creators are able to charge virtual currency for the experiences. In our bird simulator you can become an eagle for $10.

Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape.

When we approach games, we're always emotional-focused, so if a free-to-play business model works against the emotion, we won't use it. If it actually works well with the emotion, or if we can come up with a new way to do monetization that's different and that's unique for the game, I would go for that.

Our developers are helping and participating in the virtual economy by making games that aren't just fun, but which monetize as well.

Asian online games are far ahead of Western games in terms of business model, but the Western games do have a real advantage in terms of production values.

The awesome thing about 'Fortnite' is it's brought a huge volume of digital commerce to Epic.

At the current time we have no plans. I consider my job at this point, and my main responsibility, to make the Wii U and 3DS versions the best and the fullest experience possible. That said, once finished, it's the type of thing we could take into consideration, but for now, you could consider DLC as not being in the cards.

Look at music like gaming. You monetize the game to all the people who are most engaged. I wanted to bring that theory and thinking to music.

In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.

'Fortnite' is the same game on all platforms, including high-end consoles and PCs.

Roblox is really heavily based on automated sorting of content in various ways - what's popular with monetizing, what's been most favorited, what's most retaining.

We feel the game industry is changing in some major ways. 'Fortnite' is a harbinger of things to come. It's a massive number of people all playing together, interacting together, not just playing but socializing.