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Which company would that be? A quick google search doesn't turn anything up.
I think it was Zynga, they may have discontiuned it.
Gawker reported that Zynga had set up a "Platinum Purchase Program" allowing members to purchase virtual currency in amounts over $500 at favorable rates by making a payment via wire transfer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga#Platinum_Purchase_Progra...
only 3% of users buy something? Wow. if that's true, trying to hack conversion rates would rain money on them like no other.
We were bound to get to this point, but I'm still a bit disappointed. I have very little desire to play a game which intentionally skews the playing field based on in-app purchases. Personally I would far rather pay $60 or whatever for the game and then compete based on skill and luck, rather than on who wants to waste the most money.
I wonder what the long term/lifetime value per customer is in that model. It sort of operates like a SaaS but the purchasing cadence is up to the customer.
In-app purchases are in a way like the analogy of how you can slowly boil a frog and the frog won't notice, but if you drop the frog in a half-inch hot water it will immediately leap out.
it confuses me as to why some people are more susceptible to paying for in game items where those are not. as soon as I see in game purchases, it's immediately uninstalled. I want to pay for a game and compete based on some dexterity or skill gained over time not on the wallet.
Because to me, that $20 is worth FAR less than the 100 or so hours I had to waste getting those weapons.
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As a sample, how much do you spend on Clans? It seems hard to find people who will admit they make in-app purchases. I play simcity buildit and I'm not tempted to buy things, I find it a challenge to get by without purchases. I can imagine as time goes by that games will get less playable without the purchases.
I spend about $5-10 a week on Clans. It varies depending on my level of patience. What I like about Clans is that spending money has to do with speeding things up. If you're obsessed, you'll spend a lot of money, if you're treating it casually, not so much. When I want a solid hour or two of gameplay, I'll throw in $5.
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it confuses me as to why some people are more susceptible to paying for in game items where those are not. as soon as I see in game purchases, it's immediately uninstalled. I want to pay for a game and compete based on some dexterity or skill gained over time not on the wallet.
Some people have more money than time or interest in spending that time grinding games. I've been level 12 in Battlefield 4 for years. I don't get to play it more than a few times a month. I'd love to pay $20 to have all of the unlocks so that I can actually use the weapons that everyone else has. Because to me, that $20 is worth FAR less than the 100 or so hours I had to waste getting those weapons.
I found this to be ingenious: To allow for the building of alliances within the game, the app needed a sophisticated chat feature. In the middle of development, Leydon decided it made sense for all players, no matter what their native tongue, to speak the same language. So he built a messaging platform that included a translation engine based not only on Google Translate but also on crowdsourcing. Within Game of War,…
I mean google built/bought gVoice and GOOG-411 for the voicemails and transcriptions, they have that weird empire land based game for maps, and here's a chance to greatly improve gTranslate and possibly even gNow...
As a windows phone user, I, of course, want microsoft to snap them up (for cortana), but they don't have the foresight to make these types of buys (yet?).