Re:Video Games Are the Future of Education
by raxxorrax on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:57AM
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Had a similar problem in medicine in a startup, which also failed. Although people did want to pay, you can only have large scale deployments if your are able to finance multiple studies over multiple years. By then smaller manufacturers are most certainly broke.
Want to make money there? Don't try to find cures or therapies for indications a small percent of people suffer from. Just invent another beauty cream, that's where the money is. No, I’m not bitter either, just maybe a little.
This can often be a problem with education in general, not educational games specifically.
Trying to make money in education is like trying to make money in news: you can’t. Both are vital, and both ultimately no one wants to pay for.
Disclaimer: I used to work at an educational startup, which failed. No, I’m not bitter. (Well, maybe a little.)