日前，社交游戏网站Scoreloop宣布与全球最大的在线支付平台贝宝（PayPal）合作，将贝宝系统嵌入Scoreloop，提高游戏开发商营收转化率，为开发商和玩家创造在线交易的捷径。

Scoreloop integrates PayPal

据了解，Scoreloop平台的玩家规模日益庞大，每天新增人数已突破10万大关，在这种情况下，Scoreloop平台在系统优化服务方面必须有所作为，才能支撑这个膨胀社区的正常运转。另外，该平台上的Android应用市场所支持的Google支付系统，在支付手段上并不灵活，而且Google支付系统的使用并非放之四海皆准，仅局限于一些国家和地区。相比之下，贝宝通用于190个国家，支持19种货币，而且拥有2亿多全球用户。因此，Scoreloop将贝宝系统加入自己的软件开发工具包中，正好可以填补Google支付系统的真空地带，而且还允许开发商通过贝宝系统，向购买虚拟道具、Scoreloop游戏币的玩家提供信用卡支付选择。这样一来，通过Scoreloop平台的代办功能，开发商甚至不需要自已注册贝宝商户帐号，就可以方便快捷地执行在线交易。

Scoreloop的首席执行官马克.甘平格（Marc Gumpinger）认为，游戏营收在Android应用市场上是一个现实问题，Scoreloop致力于提供更完善的工具，帮助开发商提高营收转化率，现在又加上贝宝这一有力工具，相信更有利于开发商通过贝宝以及Scoreloop虚拟货币，直接实现游戏创收。他还表示，贝宝将鼓励开发商在游戏中增加虚拟货币功能，以方便玩家购买礼物、道具以及升级经验等，“玩家的游戏体验刺激了这些消费需求，而Scoreloop的使命就是分担开发商的在线交易烦恼，所以我们增加了贝宝系统……”

Scoreloop integrates PayPal for Android developers

With its sign up rate on Android now peaking at over 100,000 gamers per day, social gaming network Scoreloop is rapidly building out its features on the platform to support the growing development community.

As they know all too well, the biggest issue on Android at the moment is its lack of payment methods, with Android Market’s Google Checkout not the most flexible system, and one that’s still only supported in a handful of countries.

That’s why Scoreloop has integrated PayPal into its SDK, enabling developers to offer it alongside credit card options for the purchase of virtual items and Scoreloop’s own Coins in-game currency.

PayPal is live in 190 countries, supports 19 currencies and there are 200 million accounts.

Developers can gain access to the payment system without having to create a merchant account with PayPal either. Scoreloop handles all that plumbing for you.

“Monetisation is a real issue on Android,” says Marc Gumpinger, Scoreloop’s CEO.

“Scoreloop has already helped developers raise ad revenues with engagement tools, and by adding PayPal support we now also make it easier for developers to directly monetise their games along with our virtual currency.”

Gumpinger is particularly enthused in terms of how PayPal will encourage developers to integrate Coins into their games, whether in terms of using them for player challenges and gifting, unlocking additional levels, or introducing virtual goods.

“While it’s the player challenges feature that motivates these purchases, it’s my job as the developer to make sure that payment is painless. Scoreloop powers all of this, and PayPal is an important addition.”（source：PocketGamer）

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