A new report has found that 82% of American gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles last year. That's accord…
  • BenFranklinsDick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    Don’t believe those numbers for one fucking second.

    They are charging $11,500 to get access to their conjob “gamer statistics”

  • hakase@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Six years ago I tossed Warframe 10 bucks before I stopped playing to thank them for 500 amazing free hours, but that’s literally the only time I’ve ever made any sort of freemium purchase.

  • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    That sounds really high.

    I haven’t spent money on a freemium game since the 2010’s

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I guess i did too. Mech warrior online, and warframe are the only ones i ever bought stuff for

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    A new report has found that 82% of American gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles last year.

    I think I can count the number of freemium games that I’ve played on one hand. DoTA 2. World of Warships. Path of Exile.

    …actually, that’s all I can think of. There must have been some others somewhere in there.

    Awesomenauts is now freemium, but back when I played it, it wasn’t.

    And I can’t recall ever purchasing anything in-game from a F2P game.

    I’m not ideologically opposed to it as such – I mean, I like traditional expansions, and I suppose that paying for a base game and buying additional content out-of-game isn’t that different from having a free base game plus in-app purchases. Or maybe like having a demo version, something that’s less-common these days. But I’ve never seen something that seemed worthwhile.

    But I just can’t imagine what in God’s name people are playing and buying in this camp. I’d always assumed that it was a small handful of whales that actually bought this stuff.

    Just based on other statistics…according to this, 48% of US games are females, and based on past reading, those kind of competitive F2P games that I’ve tried, MOBAs and the like, do not sell well with them. That is, if those statistics are correct, there has to be a whole genre of F2P games targeting female gamers.

    kagis

    https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/19/female-gamers-by-genre/

    Yeah. The most-popular two genres among female gamers, according to this (slightly older) data, is Match-3, followed by Family/Farm Sim. There must be some huge world of F2P farm sims out there.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I wouldn’t care if it was only ever small and occasional. It’s the whales that I wish would go instinct.