True ownership, transferable assets: Jan Roessner on the future of direct-to-consumer
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Lia Ballentine interviews Jan Roessner about the future of direct-to-consumer strategies in gaming and the concept of ownership that travels with the player.
Welcome to The Business of Games Podcast, powered by Xsolla. Direct-to-consumer strategies are usually measured by what they remove — platform fees, intermediaries, friction at checkout. But what happens when the asset itself becomes the channel? In this extended cut, host Lia Ballentine sits down with Jan Roessner, CEO and co-founder of One Earth Rising, to explore a new layer of the developer-player relationship: one built not on storefronts, but on ownership that travels with the player ac...
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