Gaming Challenges
Practice this intermediate product launch case interview question in the Media & Entertainment sector. Includes detailed problem prompt, clarifying questions, structured framework, and expert recommendation. Part of ProHub's 835+ consulting case library.
ProHub Comment
This case combines quantitative financial analysis with strategic qualitative considerations, requiring candidates to calculate payback periods across market segments and weigh financial metrics against capabilities and reputational risks. The case demonstrates how market data and cost structures must be balanced with organizational constraints and execution risk in making product development decisions.
Estimated Time
26 minutes
Difficulty
Medium
Source
ROSS
10
/ 100
Storm Games is a video game developer focused on computer games. Their main title, King of the Forest, is an online RPG that has been extremely successful. While the game still provides a steady cash flow to Storm Games, growth has stagnated in the recent years as the numbers of new players has decreased significantly, and average revenue per user has reached a plateau. Storm Games plans on going public in the near future and in order to show strong results before the IPO, the company has hired you to develop a strategy to show investors that it can continue to grow.
Clarifying Information
- RPG stands for “Role Playing Game”
- At this time, the company is exploring a number of alternatives and has yet to determine the target result
- Storm Games has only developed RPGs for computers