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How Much Money Do Free-To-Play MMOs Make?
simoniker writes "Over at Gamasutra, a new feature article discusses how much money free-to-play MMO games make, with specific real-world stats from game developers willing to discuss how they make money with microtransaction-based PC games. In particular, Puzzle Pirates co-creator Daniel James reveals that 'the average revenue per user (ARPU) is between one and two dollars a month, but only about 10% of his player base has ever paid him anything. As a result, he says, approximately 5,000 gamers are generating the $230,000 in revenue he sees each month.' It's obviously quite a different model from the regular $15/month for World Of Warcraft, but it evidently works for some companies."
None.
We sit in Starbucks all over the nation, sipping our latte all day long, waiting for the master to return.
Well, dunno about studying or socializing, but if you can afford a mac, you're probably not ransacking couches for Ramen money.
Yes... the ongoing decline is partially caused due to rampant USD farming.
Once upon a time, the $$$ you earned were based on real work, and/or legitimate investment using your own cold hard cash.
And then the $$farmers (botters) came... and didn't follow the rules... they exploited bugs, that allowed them to leverage obscene amounts of phoney $$$ they weren't supposed to have access to.
They created an inherently deceptive market. Distorting the value of things such that it would be valued increasingly higher, at ridiculous price momentum.
They got their cronies in place throughout the political arena, so $$farmers have better representation than the people.
Instead of the past fair work/investment-based economy, huge profits came from breaking the game rules.
They bring the world economy to the verge of collapse. And the real world is by no means out of the woods yet.
The $$farmers continue to look for and try to get short-term fixes from their puppet government And matters continue to worsen
In 48 months, $1000 may be a "micro" payment.
Odd, I got a Mac in college when my PC crapped out thanks to some defective parts after $300 of upgrades. I decided I had enough of futzing with my computer, and fixing things, so I bought an iBook. With student discounts it was cheaper than most comparable Wintel laptops, and did pretty much the same stuff, and I got a free iPod with it. Sure, I couldn't game, but I had more important things to do.
It actually served my purposes fine, and it was damn cheap. Hardly a status symbol. Hell, even if it was a status symbol it might have left my dorm room 4 times 3 years.
Stop generalizing to justify your own selection of OS as being far superior to everyone elses. And stop deluding yourself into thinking you OS choice has anything to do with anything that actually matters. Its shallow, and obnoxious.
And just so you don't call me a fan-boy (which is also vapid, I might add) I'm typing this on my Windows gaming rig, sitting next to my Ubuntu laptop, which is sitting next to a Mac Mini I'm fitting into a mini media center.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey