[casual_games] RE: Casual_Games Digest, Vol 3, Issue 10

[Lennard Feddersen]

Several online retailers/publishers/portals that I deal with do provide 
real time download and conversion stats.  Very helpful.  Because I pay 
royalties to various artists, and a licensee, I would also like sales by 
individual title/SKU broken out.  Nobody that I deal with for multiple 
titles does this and it's a pain in the butt.

Here's one I know everybody is going to jump all over.  Never having let 
discretion or good sense stand in my way before, here goes.  A top 10 or 
100 board makes a lot of sense for the dollars and cents of our 
business.  Especially for the larger players.  Bear down, pump more 
resources into those profitable game types, seems like a likely 
outcome.  The only saving grace, temporarily, perhaps fleetingly, is 
that dev. costs in this space can still be low enough for people to take 
chances.  But, we should be careful or pretty soon this cool (not always 
profitable but a pretty great way to do your thing) market is going to 
become boring for us and the consumer.

My 2 cents,

Lennard Feddersen
CEO, Rusty Axe Games, Inc.
www.RustyAxe.com

Lennard at RustyAxe.com
P. 250-635-7623 F. 1-309-422-2466
3521 Dogwood, Terrace, BC, Canada, V8G-4Y7



Kim Pallister wrote:

>>From: Andrew Dick <trd22regts at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: RE: [casual_games] Portals: Room for improvement?
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>>>P.S. I really like your idea about sharing more
>>>detailed stats with
>>>developers. In a market where most portals STILL
>>>don't offer real-time
>>>sales reporting to developers, this is a step in the
>>>right direction.
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>>Great! I am really aiming to have developers want to get the most they
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>can out of using our portal. So help me help you...what kind of stats
>would be the most beneficial to you guys?
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>Given that this attitude (lack of trust in publishers) is pretty rampant
>in the dev community, I'd say that a publisher (casual or not) could
>gain a competitive advantage by offering the following to their
>developers:
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>"Quarterly reports on your game title(s)' sales data, reported out via
>an independent 3rd party auditing firm."
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>Alternatively, monthly reports (unaudited) followed up by a once or
>twice a year audited report - again, from an independent, impartial, 3rd
>party auditing firm.
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>I'll bet you could even bill it to the developers or split the
>difference or something, and still have takers. 
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>If you've got nothing to hide, why not?
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>Kim
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