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Bigpoint gets bought, but for half a billion dollars less than its most recent investment valuation, a fall of over 80% in 5 years
In April 2016, lots of sites reported that Germany’s Bigpoint, one of the pioneers of browser and F2P gaming, was bought by Chinese firm Youzu Interactive, for Eur80m ($89.7m). They bought into the PR spin that this...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Understanding games designed for retentionFrom Deputy Editor Zoya Street Free-to-play games are designed differently. Unlike pay-up-front games, they’re not designed just to dazzle you for a short while and then fade away to nothing more than a memory. They’re not designed...
- Posted 11 years ago
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Retention design in different cultures: know your playersDeputy Editor Zoya Street recently caught up with Ray Livingston, head of product marketing at Bigpoint, to talk about how their approach to free to play game design has moved forward with the development for Dark Orbit...
- Posted 11 years ago
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[Gamesbriefers] Is it dangerous to focus on whales?Teut Weidemann has criticised the way that we present the data, saying: "This suggests whales is everything. But you simply don't tell that 50% of the revenue is done by the rest of the users, no you even...
- Posted 12 years ago
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How user clusters are changing game design: after the Game Design Conference
I spent yesterday at the Game Design Conference in San Francisco as a media partner. When I first signed up to attend, I had a certain idea in my head of what kind of content it would...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater – has Bigpoint just made a big mistake?
Bigpoint today took a a broom to its management and its business. Out are Bigpoint veterans Nils Holger-Henning and brothers Philip and Tobias Reiseberger. Out too is the entire mobile business with the loss of 29 jobs. Everyone...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Bigpoint does sell the Tenth Drone for 1,000 EUr, but may not have made EUr 2 million from it
My post earlier this week quoting Bigpoint CEO Heiko Hubertz and DarkOrbit producer Simon Davis on the success of the sale of the 10th Drone got a lot of Internet attention. A lot of people just flat out...
- Posted 13 years ago
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[Video] Nicholas explains F2P Design Rule No. 3
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Is conversion rate usually quoted daily, monthly or lifetime?
I got an email last week asking me the...
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Zynga’s conversion rate
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