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by amorphid 4941 days ago
Whether that's true or not, I hate most freemium games. Sell me the game or find a way to have me endure ads, but I won't be buying in-game points soI can make my brown cow purple or whatever. I also don't like spamming friends to earn the points needed to purplefy my cow. In general I've never met a freemium game that compelled me to pay after install.
2 comments

Perhaps you're just impossible to sell too then?

Or rather you're so difficult to sell too that it's not worth the effort. Perhaps there are a load of people out there who will pay for the things you won't, even if they're relatively small in number they're potentially much more lucrative?

There's other models besides Zynga and facebook spam.

Giving the client software away for free and charging for access to official servers has been done for years successfully by Eve online and other games.