Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-37741609-20190214030706/@comment-28169398-20190216184540

MatteoPRR3 wrote: Amrosa wrote: MatteoPRR3 wrote:

Amrosa wrote:

Playing the 190 currency ads per day, each day, for an entire year earns FM about $100 per player who does that, according to FM. So 20 Gold/day, which is 7300 Gold/year, earns $100 to FM on a year basis.

But they also may cost €788 to buy from the Google Play store, for a user, which is €551 to FM after 30% has been given to Google, or $623.

Overpriced, I'd say. The premium that they are charging you has to do with the time that you are saving.

Let's say that 190 ads takes 3 hours a day. 3*365 = 1,095 hours or 45.6 days.... Is that worth $623 dollars? The time/Gold ratio dramatically drops (9 times) if you simply go for 10 Gold/day, which I believe is the target for the large majority of users.

More than that, ads watching can be done easily with very little interaction, as many say also here in this wiki: so it can be done white working, or Reading, or watching tv and so on.

Apart from this, may I ask you if your statement above actually comes from FM or it is rather yours? This is my interpretation of it. It is based on my interpretations of the freemium model and how games in that category (not just RR3 or FM) manipulate the player's psychology to induce decisions. Limited-time offers, timers that restrict use of in game assets, etc., all that can be overridden by an in-game currency that is scarce and costs real money to purchase. I was also replying to the original comment assuming 20 Gold Ads a day.

We are also making the assumption based on the 1,019 option. The $ amount goes way up if people make IAPs for the lower amounts but the same total amount of gold over the course of the year.

It still holds under your assumption, because either you are supplementing the 10 gold per day that you are not getting through ad plays with
 * Farming
 * Purchasing Gold from IAPs
 * Skipping New Content

Farming takes time. Purchasing IAPs saves you the time of playing the additional 160 ads. And skipping new content saves you time because you need less gold as your expenses for any update is less, however the trade off is you do not get to use those assets in the game.