Top Tips for Monetizing Your Freemium Game
Let’s dive right into this today. The topic is: Using Virtual Currencies in your game to maximize revenue. Rewarding your users: Using different types of currency allows you to stimulate the games economy as well as the users experience when completing challenging task for instance, you could distribute a type of ‘standard’ currency. Whereas ‘premium’ currency could only be obtained by spending actual money. An example of types of currency you could distribute are: Gold Silver Bronze Simplifying the Sale: If a player attempts to make a purchase but lacks the currency needed, be sure to always provide them the option to purchase more virtual currency. This is a proven method in increasing monetization. While pricing virtual currency remains challenging task, the folks over at W3i had this to say on the subject, “Providing to many choices will overwhelm the user and increase the likelihood that they will buy the cheapest package. Below, you can see Imangi provides four price points for currency bundles in...
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