I got an email last week asking me the following question: "Some folks insist that “conversion rate” as it’s reported industry wide is #dailypayers/DAUs, while others insist it should be based on monthly payers and MAUs (or...

I get a lot of questions asking me what the “standard” for a particular metric is in free-to-play games, whether that be conversion rate, ARPDAU, retention or something else. My broad answer is “It doesn’t matter,” and...

I am toying with the idea of defining the cut-off for whales. Help me finalize the definition.

There are so many stats bandied around for F2P games, it can sometimes be difficult to choose which ones to track. We don’t currently use ARPDAU (Average Revenue Per Daily Active User) in the GAMESbrief spreadsheet, but...

Part of my job here at Gamesbrief is to regularly update the stats pages for the Free to Play Spreadsheet. Recently I've been particularly interested in conversion rates: namely, what makes a good conversion rate? We know...

I recently gave a talk at the Social Games Summit in Berlin about metrics in free-to-play games. Basicually, it's a quick-start guide to using the online games spreadsheet to start tracking your games' success and figuring out...