[casual_games] Is the 10 meg "ceiling" officially over?

[Miguel Oliveira]

With large-file Hoyle titles (300MB and more), which we've started to
distribute through such services as Trymedia or Digital River and our
own site www.hoylegaming.com, we've experienced conversion rates of
close to 10%.

So, large file size reduced appetite for downloads, but once downloaded
the consumer seems to be more prone to actually buy it (after going
through all the pain of a 14 hour download process)

Miguel Oliveira
Director of Digital Distribution
 

Encore, Inc.
p 310.719.2846
c 310.435.2637
f  310.768.1822
moliveira at encoreusa.com  
 
Stay connected:
Skype: contactmoliveira  |   YIM: contactmoliveira
MSN: contactmiguel at hotmail.com   |    AOL: contactmoliveira
 

-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of James C. Smith
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:41 PM
To: 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'
Subject: [casual_games] Is the 10 meg "ceiling" officially over?

>> There's definitely a drop in conversion 
>> rate as the file size grows.

This doesn't seem logical to me at all. Do you have some date to back it
up?
I could understand large files causing less downloads, or less sales,
but
not lower conversion.  Why would it cause the people who downloaded it
to be
less likely to buy it?



James C. Smith
Producer/Lead Programmer
Ricochet & Big Kahuna


_______________________________________________
Casual_Games mailing list
Casual_Games at igda.org
http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/casual_games