No, it’s not about Jean Renoir’s 1939 classic, The Rules of the Game, though the society in collapse that the film depicts resonates eerily in our contemporary era.
It’s about a report by Tricia Duryee in the Wall Street Journal, announcing Google+’s new video games policy; instead of taking a 30% cut of the action as Facebook and Apple do, Google+ will only take 5%, and leave 95% for the game manufacturers, although this is an introductory offer, and once they get market share, who knows what will happen?
As Duryee reports, “Google+ Games Product Manager Punit Soni explained that initially Google will share 95 percent of the revenue from virtual goods sold with the developers and keep only five percent for itself. That confirms what I originally reported hearing from sources last month.Soni said it could change in the future, but pricing today will be based on the company’s new in-app payments platform, which charges five percent for microtransactions on the Web (unlike the 30 percent Google charges on Android).”
Let the games begin!
