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Subject: Games and in-app purchases
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newt182 8.02.15 - 10:40am
What is wrong with these developers/publishers and the people who pay these ridiculous amounts of money for these games that are really low budget, and are made by a small team in just a few months. Paying 70 pounds for some stupid in-game currency on these kinds of games is insane. A 'AAA' title console/PC game with a budget of hundreds of millions will only cost you 30-40 pounds, and the game has a huge team and they have spent years working on it.

I have tried The Simpsons: Tapped Out and Angry Birds Transformers and they both have options to spend 70 quid. Fk that. I downloaded The Simpsons from another source with 'mods' enabled instead. I see that even the latest versions of the normal Angry Birds have in-app purchases now.

Is it just me or does anyone else here see how fked up and wrong this is? Why are people supporting this business model so much on Android? * +

leon29 8.02.15 - 11:45am
Difference is Sony could spent 40 mill on a game and sell it for 10 bucks to 40 mill people round the world and the make their money back, only a few thousand people download games on their phone, so developer needs to make money some how, in app purchase or annoying as, who wins you decide * +

leon29 8.02.15 - 11:46am
I would pay 70 for a in app purchase either that's crazy but the odd 69p purchase is cool * +

newt182 8.02.15 - 02:12pm
The Simpsons: Tapped Out is published by EA, one of the biggest companies in the games industry. The game probably had a budget of a few hundred thousand at most. tbh a small team with a budget of 20,000 could easily do it (without the licensing fee). Somewhere between 50-100 million people have installed the game. I realise that number would be much smaller if you had to pay. But here's the thing, like you said you would be happy to pay 69p for it. So just have a pro licence for 69p that unlocks everything and they would probably make the same amount of money that they do from the very small percentage of people who pay loads. * +

newt182 8.02.15 - 02:13pm
Surely the majority of people don't pay anything, through in-app purchases, for games like that when they see it is a money pit? * +

newt182 8.02.15 - 02:19pm
''According to EA, a majority of the growth seen in the financial quarter came from mobile and free-to-play games such as The Simpsons: Tapped Out which had its highest earning quarter to date since its August 2012 launch.

EAs mobile and handheld digital revenue generated [dollars]103 million in the quarter, a 30[pc] jump over the same period last year.''
[link]Source:http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/07/23/ea-first-quarter-earnings-beat-expectations-but-short-term-gains-mask-deeper-problems/[/link]

That's 103 million in three months from mobile/phone gaming.

Edit: Just noticed the source is from 2013 but it still shows you how profitable mobile gaming is. I would guess the figures are higher now. * +

newt182 8.02.15 - 02:20pm
So what I was originally saying... Is it just me or does anyone else here see how fked up and wrong this is? Why are people supporting this business model so much on Android? * +

leon29 8.02.15 - 03:59pm
Because you have adverts or in app purchases, because they can't charge up front for a game cause the same people that moan about in app purchases and adverts are the first to say fk that I want it for free, then go and download a bootleg copy * +

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