OUYA Moving Away from Required Free-to-Try

[RiotingSpectre]

Great move in my opinion Julie. There are already 700+ FREE TO TRY games on OUYA. Gamers want 2 things. They want good games, and they want a good selection of games. Opening the door to new developers is always a good move. If you buy an OUYA today, you will have over 700 games that you can play for free. Because you now allow developers to upload games that are NOT FREE TO TRY, doesn't mean that every developer will give up the opportunity to allow thousands of gamers try out their games for free. This just makes OUYA even more "OPEN". Love the move!

Ed

What people need to realize is that Ouya is a business. They need to profit in order to keep chugging along. I'm sure this was a business decision that Julie feels needs to take place. Sure it's nice to think that the developers will come to you, but as a business person they can only wait so long. With Amazon perhaps coming out with a gaming system of some sorts, Ouya need to continue to appeal to gamers of all sorts, especially those who are willing to spend some money to get that top tier game. I think this is something that needs to be done whether the community likes it or not.

Just my opinion.

Don't forget that there are two sides to a gamer and consumer which is each other. As I a gamer I agree with your notion, however as a consumer I feel as though this goes against my interest for the sake of something that isn't needed just yet if needed at all considering it's OUYA we're talking about. Yes, it's a business and they need to maximum profits but they already subjugated themselves to lesser revenue from the start due to their unique approaches and challenging a working formula. They knew from the start where they were going to go and despite the fact the the Kickstarter was a surprise hit, I doubt they had their heads in the clouds about what the road ahead would contain when they took their policies into consideration.

Any change that is made is going to piss someone off.

Agreed and we Staff know this best of all regardless if we partake in the pissing match ourselves. However, we're all aware that OUYA Incorporate does some stupid things such as releasing the Free The Games system in such an incomplete state which resulted in backlash and consumer loyalty degradation. The Free The Games debacle was especially retarded because as I said before; the solution was so fucking simple that all it would have taken to fix it was sitting down with someone else for five damn minutes and using their brains while thinking "Is what we're doing the correct way?". So many members perfected the idea in the first ten minutes when we were aware of the risk of the Free The Games and the entire company ignored us until the damage had been dealt. I think this is another example of an imperfect decision that is not being thought out and we're paying for it yet again.

Also, yes I know nothing is perfect.

OUYA has to do what they think is best for surviving in this market. I'd rather see OUYA succeed as a console, rather than go under honoring their original business plan.
Ed

As would I, but it's not at the "Go For Broke" moment just yet. Assuming of course they're not just over in California literally burning stacks money.