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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."
Puzzle Pirates is written in cross platform Java. Works on every major OS.
None.
We sit in Starbucks all over the nation, sipping our latte all day long, waiting for the master to return.
is it 6? I'm guessing 6, 6 right?
"approximately 5,000 gamers are generating the $230,000 in revenue he sees each month."
If you knew, why the hell did you ask me?
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10% of the player base is paying him
No, 10% of the player base has ever paid him. Some other % (presumably smaller) is the 5000 players paying monthly.
ARPU is only $2 on the top end and 5,000 people pay this, so that's $10,000 a month
No, the average is over all of the players, so thats (total players)*$2 a month.
"ransacking the couch for ramen money" That sounds really dirty to me for some reason.
Is that what you kids are calling it these days? In my day was just called it sex, I guess I am just old.
Get off my lawn.
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Some of us are browser based. I play www.KingdomofLoathing.com all the time, and it's platform independent. I also run my own game at www.Twilightheroes.com.
With just under 30k accounts, maybe 2,000 of them active in a given month, I'm not really quite "massive" yet but my own experience is that I pull in on average less than $0.50 per account per month, with some fair bit of fluctuation. I'd be jumping for joy at an average of $2/player.
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Actually, as an openly gay mac user, I have to say I've gotten far more dick when I leave my computer at home.
If you think your hardware choice will get you laid, I'm guessing you don't get much from either sex.
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