http://blog.getgambit.com/virtual-goods-social-games/ Cents to Dollars. The blog on Social Gaming Monetization Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:27:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blog.getgambit.com/virtual-goods-social-games/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Virtual goods might not be real, but their purpose still needs to be | UpOff.com Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:29:37 +0000 http://blog.getgambit.com/?p=1071#comment-61 [...] [Editor's note: Lora L. Abe is the director of marketing for Gambit, a leading payments engine for online games. She writes articles on monetization for social games at blog.getgambit.com, where it was originally published.] [...] [...] [Editor's note: Lora L. Abe is the director of marketing for Gambit, a leading payments engine for online games. She writes articles on monetization for social games at blog.getgambit.com, where it was originally published.] [...]

]]> http://blog.getgambit.com/virtual-goods-social-games/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Virtual goods might not be real, but their purpose still needs to be » VentureBeat Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:10:59 +0000 http://blog.getgambit.com/?p=1071#comment-51 [...] [Editor's note: Lora L. Abe is the director of marketing for Gambit, a leading payments engine for online games. She writes articles on monetization for social games at blog.getgambit.com, where it was originally published.] [...] [...] [Editor's note: Lora L. Abe is the director of marketing for Gambit, a leading payments engine for online games. She writes articles on monetization for social games at blog.getgambit.com, where it was originally published.] [...]

]]> http://blog.getgambit.com/virtual-goods-social-games/comment-page-1/#comment-41 niknah Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:45:39 +0000 http://blog.getgambit.com/?p=1071#comment-41 Once you go down the path of selling virtual goods you have to be real careful about the accounting of these goods in the rest of the game. Like some games let you delete items without confirmation, items go missing after the game is reset, or while your room is rearranged and you lose the internet connection, etc. This is real money lost to the players and they would be pissed off. Once you go down the path of selling virtual goods you have to be real careful about the accounting of these goods in the rest of the game.
Like some games let you delete items without confirmation, items go missing after the game is reset, or while your room is rearranged and you lose the internet connection, etc.
This is real money lost to the players and they would be pissed off.

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