Submission + - Pay less if you're a nice person: Valves fremium model for DOTA 2 (develop-online.net)
Canazza writes: In an upcoming interview with seven day cooldown, and summarised by Develop, Valve Boss Gabe Newell discusses the payment model for the upcomming DOTA 2.
""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 – and this is something as an industry we should be doing better – is charging customers based on how much fun they are to play with. [...] 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.”"
""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 – and this is something as an industry we should be doing better – is charging customers based on how much fun they are to play with. [...] 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.”"
