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Xyologic调查:免费产品占App Store游戏下载量的40%

发布时间:2011-04-29 09:40:36 Tags:,,

据应用商店数据分析公司Xyologic调查显示,在过去19个月中,苹果App Store的免费游戏迅速发展,目前该应用商店有40%的游戏下载量来自含内置付费功能的免费产品。

在今年3月,App Store中的免费iPhone游戏下载量超过了9990万次,在该平台3月份的所有应用下载量中,其中约有80.8%来自免费应用。

但不久前苹果采取限制“奖励下载”广告模式的措施后,此举在采用该服务的免费应用开发商群体,以及以Tapjoy为代表的第三方推广服务供应商中引起了不小的震动(游戏邦注:Tapjoy日前已经自动限制了一些“奖励下载”模式的推广服务)。

top 10 games publishers

top 10 games publishers

Xyologic观察发现,今年3月份App Store新发布的应用数量是1.8787万,而谷歌Android Market则是2.8963万。如果苹果想抓住这些开发商,防止客源流向其他应用商店,那就很有必要在兼顾开发商情绪的同时,谨慎地限制下载奖励模式,因为此举很可能重创App Store中的顶级免费应用开发商。这些有可能深受影响的开发商包括Glu Mobile,该公司含内置付费功能的免费游戏在3月份的下载量达到248万次;其次是Pocket Gems,其免费应用下载量达155万次;再次是TeamLava(Storm8旗下工作室),同类产品的下载量为141万次;Craneball Studios也是141万次,Gameview Studios与这两者相差无几;Sunstorm Interactive是118万次,Capcom Interactive则是96.9万次,Backflip Studios已达93万次,Storm8是75.2万次,BayView Labs是72.3万次。

2156 of them were free games with in-app purchases

2156 of them were free games with in-app purchases

据Xyologic所称,App Store多数付费游戏的售价都在3.99美元以下,在美国App Store中共有8017款iPhone应用含有内置付费功能,其中的免费游戏共有2156款,而在去年9月,这一数据仅709款。总体上看,在App Store的40%免费应用下载量中,免费游戏所占比例是4%。在该应用商店的前150款免费游戏中,含有内置付费功能的游戏占据了94个席位(约63%)。

Xyologic每月都会追踪App Store、Adnroid Market、Windows Phone 7 Marketplace的61万款应用,可调查每款应用和每家发行商的下载量情况。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

40 percent of Apple game downloads are free titles with in-app purchases

Free-to-play games have become huge on Apple’s App Store in the past 19 months. Almost 40 percent of game downloads are now free titles with in-app purchases, according to a study by Xyologic, a startup that indexes and searches through App Store data.

In March, there were more than 99.9 million downloads of free iPhone games from the App Store. About 80.8 percent of all app downloads in the month of March were free. In many of these games and apps, the free-to-play model is used, where a user can pay real money through the in-app purchase feature for virtual goods such as better weapons in a game.

The scary part is that Apple has made a lot of the developers of these apps and games nervous because of its shift in stance on a particular kind of model, known as pay-per-install. In games that use this model, an app will offer an incentive for the user to install another app as a kind of cross promotion. But a couple of weeks ago, Apple cracked down on the pay-per-install model because it can be used to artificially inflate a game’s ranking in the top 25 apps in the store. That has affected pay-per-install marketing firms such as Tapjoy.

The problem is that the free-to-play model (of which the pay-per-install model is one part) has become a bigger and bigger part of the total number of app downloads, and it has become a bigger percentage of revenues for developers. Those developers used pay-per-install marketing to help their apps stand out among 350,000 iOS apps. Apple feared it was leading to market manipulation. To ease Apple’s concerns, Tapjoy has limited certain promotions using the pay-per-install model.

“It may make Apple’s platform possibly less attractive vis-a-vis Google Android if developers can’t find a suitable alternative to offer walls,” the report said. “This is the biggest interference by Apple into the app economy in recent months. Its effects, at this point, are unclear.”

While Apple makes much more money with the App Store than Google does with the Android Market, the number of apps is another story now. Xyologic says that in March, 28,963 new apps debuted in the Android Market, while 18,787 debuted in Apple’s store.

Apple has to be careful about how it resolves the pay-per-install problem if it wants to hang on to its developers. The top developers affected by Apple’s decision likely include Glu Mobile, which saw 2.48 million downloads of free games with in-app purchases in March. The second-ranked company was Pocket Gems, with 1.55 million downloads. That was followed by TeamLava (part of Storm8) with

1.41 million; Craneball Studios with 1.41 million; Gameview Studios with 1.41 million; Sunstorm Interactive with 1.18 million; Capcom Interactive with 969,000; Backflip Studios with 933,000; Storm8 with 752,000; and BayView Labs (DeNA) with 723,000.

Xyologic says that almost all of the paid games on the App Store are priced below $3.99. Of the 8,017 iPhone apps offering in-app purchases in the App Store in the U.S., some 2,156 of them were free games with in-app purchases. That was up from 709 in September. Overall, about 4 percent of game apps account for 40 percent of all downloads.

Of the 150 top free games on the App Store, 94 games, or 63 percent, are games with in-app purchases. These are some of the observations based on the data that Xyologic dug out through its search service. Berlin-based Xyologic indexes 610,000 apps in the App Store, the Android Market, and the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace on a monthly basis. It can rank the number of downloads for each app and publisher in the month, according to Xyologic’s Matthaus Krzykowski (an occasional VentureBeat contributor).(source:venturebeat


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