Cena i treść gry komputerowej – ile to zbyt mało, ile zbyt dużo

• Authors: Krej Krzysztof

Title variants

EN

Game price and content – how little is too little, and how much is too much

Abstracts

PL

Wybor ceny gry jest trudnym zadaniem dla wielu tworcow. Większość ogranicza się do sprawdzenia cen podobnych gier w sklepie. Analogicznie z doborem czasu rozgrywki. Aby nie podejmować tak kluczowych decyzji losowo, zebrano i przeanalizowano dane dla tysięcy gier wydanych na Steam. Codziennie, przez sześć miesięcy zbierano aktualne listy najlepiej sprzedających się gier, a następnie te dane zostały połączone z czasami rozgrywki pobranymi ze strony howlongtobeat.com. Efektem tych badań jest analiza relacji pomiędzy czasem rozgrywki a ceną gier komputerowych oraz analiza tagow i gatunkow, ktore mogą sprawić, że cena gry jest znacząco odległa od oczekiwanej.

EN

Choosing the right selling price for a game is a hard task for many creators. Their actions are often limited to checking the price of already published, similar games. The same thing usually happens when deciding about the game’s length. To make this essential process more premeditated, data coming from thousands of games published on the Steam platform was collected and analyzed. List of top selling Steam games was being collected daily for over six months. These data were combined with gameplay time statistics gathered from howlongtobeat.com website. Result of this research covers an analysis of time-price relation for computer games, and also analysis of tags and genres, that may cause a game to be cheaper or more expensive than average.

Keywords

PL

Cena, czas rozgrywki; gry wideo; gry komputerowe; Steam; gatunki

EN

Price; playtime; time to beat; video games; computer; games; Steam; genres

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo WSEI Kraków
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Ekonomii i Informatyki w Krakowie
• Year: 2019
• Issue: nr 15
• Pages: 143-153

Dates

published

2020-04-01

Contributors

author

Krej Krzysztof

• Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomii i Informatyki w Krakowie

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