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Re: Facebook To Make ‘Facebook Credits’ Mandatory For Game Developers

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Post by slantyyz » Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 10:18 PM UTC

jokermatt999 wrote: post #31

cletus wrote: post #28

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Why are you comparing the DS to the iPhone when the elephant in the room is the iPod Touch? An 8GB iPod Touch is cheaper than the pricing of the 3DS. For completeness we're looking at $249 for a 3DS and $170 for a DSi [1]. What's more a typical new release 3DS game will sell for $30+. Compare that to the typically Honestly I've never played a DS so I really don't know but are the games really that much better to not…

It's entirely different markets. The "gamer" market segment generally isn't going to settle for iPod touch games. It's like saying Flash games will kill PC Gaming.

You know, I used to dismiss the iPhone/iPod touch as a gamer device, but I don't any more.

I think your argument is a little inaccurate. The "gamer" market segment may not settle for casual games, but there are plenty of deep gamer quality titles on iOS, they just don't get the same attention as the casual titles.

Re: Facebook To Make ‘Facebook Credits’ Mandatory For Game Developers

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Post by slantyyz » Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 10:40 PM UTC

rmc wrote: post #30

rwhitman wrote: post #10

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Good point, but keep in mind they have 500M+ users. Almost everyone willing to buy into virtual currency is already on Facebook

How many users do Mastercard or Visa have?

Heck, how are people even going to be paying for Facebook credits in the first place?

Why bother with the middleman, right?

Re: Facebook To Make ‘Facebook Credits’ Mandatory For Game Developers

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Post by clistctrl » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 12:37 AM UTC

larrik wrote: post #11

Isn't the Secret Service going to have a problem with this? I thought making your own currency was a huge no-no, and if it gets too popular they are going to have a hell of a time passing it off as something else to the government.

I was to be under the impression that it is not illegal to create your own currency. I believe the secret service protect "dollars" and issues related to that such as counterfeiting. If you have a link that says otherwise, i'm very much interested!