The practice of earning money for games, often on a continuing or advance basis past the initial sale.
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Monetization of Virtual Goods – a $2.9B market? [closed]
What are the biggest problems facing PC/mobile game developers when trying to monetize virtual goods – transaction fees, discovery, marketing? Is the market actually $2.9b, as reported by TechCrunch? ...
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MMO market (subscribe model, not play for free) [closed]
What mmo games do you know (play) with WoW-like monetization-subscribing (not play 4 free)?
And how many active gamers playing them and what cost of each of them?
Thank you!
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2answers
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Virtual Economy Setup - Virtual currencies advice
I'm trying to figure out how to build my virtual economy. It seems like some games have one currency and some of them have up to 3 and 4 different ones.
The game is an action game which is currently ...
10
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2answers
370 views
$0.99 or Free with Virtual goods - Revenue Model for mobile games
I'm trying to decide between a paid game and a free to play game. Is there research on the pros and cons of each one. I would really appreciate some concrete data on this and not just opinions. This ...
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3answers
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Saving virtual goods balance in Android Game
I'm looking for a good way to store virtual goods and virtual currency balance in an Android game. Since these are "consumable" or "unmanaged" goods the balance is not backed up by Google and so there ...
2
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1answer
113 views
Making large scale changes to an economy in a social game
Are there any examples or case studies of social games, specifically on Facebook, where the developer has made drastic changes to the economy? I'm specifically interested in examples where the old ...
0
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1answer
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How to prevent one account from unlocking products on other devices using Apple StoreKit?
We are currently wrapping up a free-to-play game on iOS in which you can purchase non-consumable products. We have been discussing this case internally and are not quite sure what the best practices ...
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1answer
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Free vs. Paid: Picking a Financial Model
I finally embarked upon my first "paid" game. What this means is that I will incorporate some sort of monetization strategy in my game. This may mean making the app pay-to-download, making it ...
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1answer
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What income models are available for Xbox games?
There are number of income models available for different games on various platforms - income from ads, paid games, paid DLCs, microtransactions and so forth. What sources of income are available for ...
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Looking for articles/books on: How do games make money? What models do they use?
I'm trying to research the ways in which games make money. I want to know more about the models they use (free/premium, trial/subscription, free-to-play with micro-transactions, etc.). In addition, I ...
5
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2answers
119 views
Balancing agressive invites
I am designing a trading card game for mobiles, with the possibility to add cards to your collection using Gems, aquired through victories and inapp purchases.
I am thinking to increase the spread of ...
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3answers
840 views
Dual Currency vs. One Currency in social games economics and monetization
Not a programming question but game development related.
I am creating an iPhone online game which I wish to be free-to-play where in-app purchase is used for monetization. The important point is to ...
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0answers
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8 questions for Mobile Game Developers [closed]
I'm looking for some help to sense how Mobile Game developers (mostly indie) are monetizing their games.
Would appreciate your help in answering this (less than 2 minutes)
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1answer
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How should we approach publishing our game from India?
Me and my friends are developing a game using Java for Windows operating system. We have nearly completed our game. As we feel that the game can make money, we wish to sell it. But in India we don't ...
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3answers
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App Store: Profitability for Game Developers
Recent days, I've been spending significant time in discovering chances of profitability of AppStore for developers.
I have found many articles. Some of them are highly optimistic, while other are ...
