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  • A $50k IOS game grossing $1m per month

    Have you heard of Design This Home? I hadn’t. But it’s in the top 5 of the Top Grossing Apps in the UK, Canada, Australia and Ireland, with 300,000 DAUs and is “set to gross $1m per...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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  • Temple Run saw revenues leap 4x when they went free to play

    Current iOS darling Temple Run started life as a paid app. It cost 99c and contained in-app-purchases. According to an interview with Gamasutra, the app reached the top 50 in the paid app charts in August 2011, and...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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  • The ethics of Free-to-play

    The ethics of free-to-play are going to be a big issue in 2012. I’ve already written some of my thoughts on the blog, but I also gave a talk at Develop Liverpool on the topic. It’s also a...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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  • Free and free to play are different, says Valve

    Is “free-to-play” fundamentally different from “free”? Valve’s Gabe Newell thinks so.

    • Posted 12 years ago
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  • Why are so many games converting to a free-to-play model?

    In the wake of the recent spate of formerly subscription-based MMOs adopting a free-to-play model (City of Heroes, LEGO Universe, Age of Conan, LOTRO), MCV asked me to answer some questions on why this model works so...

    • Posted 13 years ago
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