http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/10/19/ngmocos-new-eliminate-game-looks-to-cash-in-on-virtual-goods/ Tracking Innovation at the Convergence of Games and Social Platforms Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:17:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/10/19/ngmocos-new-eliminate-game-looks-to-cash-in-on-virtual-goods/comment-page-1/#comment-10405 Ngmoco’s Free-to-Play iPhone Game Hits the Top Grossing Apps List Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:58:24 +0000 http://www.insidesocialgames.com/?p=7472#comment-10405 [...] features, iPhone developer ngmoco launched the social, multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS), Eliminate Pro. Via the company’s social platform, Plus+, this good-looking app not only has strong game play [...] [...] features, iPhone developer ngmoco launched the social, multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS), Eliminate Pro. Via the company’s social platform, Plus+, this good-looking app not only has strong game play [...]

]]> http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/10/19/ngmocos-new-eliminate-game-looks-to-cash-in-on-virtual-goods/comment-page-1/#comment-8842 Game Tycoon»Blog Archive » Articles of Interest Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:20:22 +0000 http://www.insidesocialgames.com/?p=7472#comment-8842 [...] Yet another prominent iPhone developer has spoken up about piracy; this time, it’s Ngmoco complaining about 50%-90% piracy rates in the first week a game is released. As I’ve said myself, Ngmoco now speculates that free (presumably cross-platform) games supported by microtransactions may be the best way for established developers to succeed on the iPhone. The latter was only permitted by Apple very recently. [...] [...] Yet another prominent iPhone developer has spoken up about piracy; this time, it’s Ngmoco complaining about 50%-90% piracy rates in the first week a game is released. As I’ve said myself, Ngmoco now speculates that free (presumably cross-platform) games supported by microtransactions may be the best way for established developers to succeed on the iPhone. The latter was only permitted by Apple very recently. [...]

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