{"id":8790,"date":"2014-05-25T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2014-05-26T00:30:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T00:30:47","slug":"the-economics-of-more-new-games-but-no-new-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/the-economics-of-more-new-games-but-no-new-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"The economics of more new games, but no new gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Vogel boils down the indie gaming debate (on PC) to a simple equation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>X dollars, Y developers. That&#8217;s all that matters.\u00a0And if X stays constant, the only way to solve the problem is for Y to go down. I&#8217;ll give you a second to work out the consequences of that for yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s done a wonderful piece on the whole ecosystem, but it does come down to <a href=\"http:\/\/jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/05\/the-indie-bubble-is-popping.html\">more new games, no new gamers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Vogel boils down the indie gaming debate (on PC) to a simple equation: X dollars, Y developers. That&#8217;s all that matters.\u00a0And if X stays constant, the only way to solve the problem is for Y to go down. I&#8217;ll give you a second to work out the consequences of that for yourself. He&#8217;s done a wonderful piece on the whole ecosystem, but it does come down to more new games, no new gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[2308,2501,352,5083],"class_list":["post-8790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-link-log","tag-economics","tag-gaming-2","tag-pc","tag-steam","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2hM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}