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addictive games, more info on My Guests
Friday, December 18th, 2009 04:45 pmhttp://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-completely-addicted-to-a-stupid-facebook-game-2009-12
For those of us too lazy to go through 41 slides, basically in Fishville you buy fish, and raise them and sell them to get more $$$, which you can use to upgrade your tank or buy more fish. The main way to get cash is selling the fish, but you can also get cash by inviting your friends and "helping" them.
This is a multi-million dollar business where much of the profits come from people buying the virtual money (and previously, scammy offers, but Zygna has now renounced them). This approach, now even more widespread in the more profitable Chinese social-network sphere, seems to be catching on in America. Will virtual goods end up being the salvation of profit-seeking social networks?
Also, does anyone else find the My Guests thing at LJ sort of useless since the majority of visitors are invisible? Also, I found out by looking at the Russian news comm that all of the users who used Cyrillic services before Dec. 15 get to keep using full stats (whereas to non-Cyrillic users the stats besides My Guests are paid/perm only features ahaha)
In other news, I am jonesing for Sengoku Musou 3, but even if I bought it now, I couldn't play it cause it is Wii only so far. :(
For those of us too lazy to go through 41 slides, basically in Fishville you buy fish, and raise them and sell them to get more $$$, which you can use to upgrade your tank or buy more fish. The main way to get cash is selling the fish, but you can also get cash by inviting your friends and "helping" them.
This is a multi-million dollar business where much of the profits come from people buying the virtual money (and previously, scammy offers, but Zygna has now renounced them). This approach, now even more widespread in the more profitable Chinese social-network sphere, seems to be catching on in America. Will virtual goods end up being the salvation of profit-seeking social networks?
Also, does anyone else find the My Guests thing at LJ sort of useless since the majority of visitors are invisible? Also, I found out by looking at the Russian news comm that all of the users who used Cyrillic services before Dec. 15 get to keep using full stats (whereas to non-Cyrillic users the stats besides My Guests are paid/perm only features ahaha)
In other news, I am jonesing for Sengoku Musou 3, but even if I bought it now, I couldn't play it cause it is Wii only so far. :(
