Microtransactions

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• Microtransactions – Good or Evil?

  
  Dealspwn — Authority: 144
  The growth of the microtransaction model in PC gaming has had both positive and negative feedback from the serious gamer. As this is still in its infancy does it have the potential to become a solid gaming business model? Microtransactions are essentially in-game payments made by players to purchase goods, services, ...
  5 days ago

• Friendster’s Fate: Sold to Malaysian E-commerce Giant

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 855
  Just a few days ago we heard rumours about the imminent sale of Friendster , one of the first-generation social networks that originally kicked off the craze. Through self-reinvention the site has managed to stay relevant to a large audience in Asia, though its influence is notably diminished in the West over the ...
  5 days ago

• Friendster’s Fate: Sold to Malaysian E-commerce Giant

  
  PORTCITYUNDERGROUND — Authority: 173
  This is from Mashable! : Just a few… Read the rest here: Friendster’s Fate: Sold to Malaysian E-commerce Giant
  5 days ago

• Amex buys into the alternative online payments revolution

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 122
  -Contact Thomas Rasmussen As the first significant deal that adds online payments technology to a legacy payment platform, American Express’ recent $300m acquisition of Revolution Money essentially amounts to a shot across the bow of eBay’s PayPal and Google’s CheckOut. The relatively rich purchase of ...
  6 days ago

• The Daily Grind: Do item shop sales affect your purchases?

  
  Massively — Authority: 659
  With more and more games adopting some form of the free-to-play model, item shops are becoming big business for many MMOs -- even some that arent f2p are in on the act . Players can save a little (or a lot) of time by dropping a few dollars here or there to obtain an item that they dont have the time or inclination ...
  6 days ago

• Nexon America Hires Won Il Sue for BizDev Slot

  
  Virtual Worlds News — Authority: 519
  Yesterday Nexon American announced that its new Vice President of Business Development would be Won Il Sue, former CEO of Nexon Corp and Internet startup Smartplay. Sue comes to Nexon from Neowiz Games in South Korea, where he held a variety of positions including Senior Vice President of International Business. Sues ...
  6 days ago

• Cant Buy Me Love

  
  Game and Player — Authority: 127
  World of Warcrafts micro-transactions.
  1 week ago

• Zynga Unleashes PetVille, Puts GoPets To Sleep

  
  Virtual Worlds News — Authority: 519
  This week Zynga unleashed its latest social game, PetVille .As the name implies, PetVille is Zyngas entry into the time-tested butcrowded "virtual pet" genre of social game. Users can adopt and playwith virtual pets, earning items to customize their virtual homes andappearances. What is curious about the sudden ...
  1 week ago

• Battlefield Heroes Store Update Gives Upper Hand to Microtransaction Users, Outrages Everyone Else

  
  ModCool — Authority: 157
  Battlefield Heroes, DICE’s “free-to-play” browser-based installment in the Battlefield franchise, has declared war on gamers’ wallets with a recent update . In a nutshell, the update ensures that Valor Points – an earnable in-game currency – get you far less bang for your buck, while all ...
  1 week ago

• Battlefield Heroes store updated, offers advantage to microtransacting users

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 774
  Its difficult to explain the current controversy surrounding Battlefield Heroes without talking a whole lot of inside baseball, so well keep it simple. Players of the game are up in arms due to a recent update to the titles in-game store. Though EA and DICE had worked up a balance between the games two forms of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why RMT wont go away

  
  Massively — Authority: 659
  "Companies should just stop gold farmers." Its a consistent complaint in many games, with "gold" replaced by your games currency of choice. As complaints go, its right around " somebody should do something about all the problems " in terms of overall utility, but heck, no one likes the practice and it should just be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Battleswarm: Field of Honor Launches Officially

  
  GayGamer.net — Authority: 561
  I wrote a review of this FPS/RTS hybrid MMOG back in September; a short month later Battleswarm has gone from open beta to full release yesterday as the free-to-play title opens its doors to any and all interested players. Battleswarm is an innovative title that pits a team of human players fighting an alien ...
  3 weeks ago

• NOTEWORTHY: Up to 65 percent of MMO players play for Free

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 466
  A recent widely cited report by GamesIndustry.com found that 15 percent of game time was devoted to MMOs. The report also stated that between 35 to 40 percent of gamers pay for MMOs... which leaves quite a few players playing for free. ... between 60 and 65 percent playing for free to be precise (at least as precise ...
  3 weeks ago

• Champions Online previews Nemesis Confrontation

  
  Massively — Authority: 659
  Whats more dangerous than an interdimensional prison in which malevolent creatures of immense power plot the destruction of the entire Champions Online world? That same prison being taken over and used as a lair by your heros Nemesis and the dangerous Shadow Destroyer. After hints and the surprise playtest ...
  3 weeks ago

• Listen to What the Consumer Wants

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 143
  I’ve periodically written about the plight of print publishers and their reluctant move to the digital world. One of the looming issues for these publishers when they make the transition to online content is how to get consumers to pay for it.This all may be coming to a head in 2010. According to a study [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Rumors of WoW TCGs demise greatly exaggerated

  
  WoW.com — Authority: 637
  Rumors have been swirling around the Internet this weekend, reporting that the WoW Trading Card Game was ending this year after the release of the upcoming Scourgewar expansion set due to mishandling of marketing by the Upper Deck team. The rumor apparently started at Rawrcast , where it was attributed to a ...
  4 weeks ago

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