Alice blogs what I fail to

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Mar 062007
 

Three Rings (puzzlepirates) income = $100K per month from subs. $250K from microtransactions.

Other tidbits from the casual games summit at GDC here:

  7 Responses to “Alice blogs what I fail to”

  1. [email protected] says:
    March 6, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    income or revenue. I find it surprising they’d reveal their income.

  2. RLMMO :: View topic - Surprising Microtransaction Numbers says:
    March 6, 2007 at 11:14 pm

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  3. Sulka Haro says:
    March 7, 2007 at 8:00 am

    Revenue. OOO isn’t such a huge company. (Although I wish they’ll be, eventually.)

    Raph, you’re really good at lurking around! 🙂 I have a gift for you but haven’t been able to find you. Maybe at Level99 then…

  4. Allen Sligar says:
    March 7, 2007 at 11:20 am

    I have some stuff up at the GLM community blog on the SGS here as well. More should be incomming shortly.

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    March 7, 2007 at 4:37 pm

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  6. robusticus says:
    March 7, 2007 at 6:12 pm

    So I read their Doubloons faq, very interesting read.

    Some snips:

    “The failure of major massively multi-player games to limit trading in their currencies and items on third-party sites such as IGE.com is indicative of two things; that the demand exists for such trades, and that it is largely futile to attempt to prevent them.

    Three Rings are not ones to stand in the sand getting our feet wet, hoping that we can persuade the tide to turn back. If people are going to engage in such transactions, we will provide a sensible platform for them to do so, and keep a hand on that platform for the good of the ocean.”

    Ok, I’m down with that. But then further on in the faq:

    “Can I sell Doubloons on eBay or Gaming Open Market?

    No. Doubloons are intended as an in-game credit to be used within the game to purchase goods and enable aspects of gameplay. They are not to be resold as a source of revenue. Unfortunately we will have to ban players who attempt to execute such trades.”

    Those would be the, um, pirates that would get the ban schtick? Way to go with the flow like an ameba in the stream, mateys.

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