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How do you price virtual goods? Data on virtual items, currencies and in-app purchases in F2P PC, social and mobile games. By Dr Vili Lehdonvirta and Eino Joas.

Joined February 2012
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Have you ever participated in #crowdfunding video games? Let us pick your brain on what motivated you. For SCIENCE. bit.ly/1Oj4jmo
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How does Clash of Clans make over $2 million per day? Read our analysis to find out! bit.ly/ISqWNo
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6 Free-to-Play Design Lessons from Clash of Clans to Engage Players and Increase Profits bit.ly/ISqWNo
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Virtual Items: Consumable, Non-Consumable and What's In Between: a nice short article by @y_nizan gamesauce.org/news/2013/04/2…
Check out our virtual economy analysis on The Simpsons: Tapped Out! virtualeconomists.com/blogs/…
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Our latest F2P Games Virtual Goods & Currencies report out now! virtualeconomists.com/produc…
(btw as you can guess, now is the last opportunity to benefit from the preorder discount for our F2P report: bit.ly/ZUODwq)
Would one of you F2P developers like to donate some in-game graphics to decorate the cover of our new F2P Virtual Goods & Currencies report?
Designing Virtual Markets for Fun and Profit: @ViliLe's popular GDC2013 talk now online. Slides+audio bit.ly/Yr3FHE
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Data on over 5,500 virtual items and 64 currency packages in leading F2P PC games bit.ly/YUy4d1 #GDC13
Announcing our new product: F2P Games Virtual Goods & Currencies Pricing Report + Data. #GDC preorder: bit.ly/YUy4d1
Designing Virtual Markets for Fun and Profit: upcoming GDC lecture on economic design by our @ViliLe bit.ly/11bwZkk
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For more structured advice on virtual currency design, see @ViliLe's GDC presentation: slidesha.re/xXFDNs
Inspiration for virtual currency design: edible money and other quirky currencies bit.ly/VZCtft
Mobile Games Virtual Goods & Currencies Pricing Report 1/2012 available now! bit.ly/Lx4nxk
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The Mobile Games Virtual Goods & Currencies Pricing Report 1/2012 is now ready and we're shipping pre-orders. Available on the website soon!
Why Japanese social gaming giants monetize better than Zynga: bit.ly/LZZGrh #virtualgoods #virtualcurrency #mobile
Here's a permanent link to Sulka's review of our Virtual Goods & Currencies Pricing report: bit.ly/Jf8Gb2 #virtualcurrency
Review of our Social Games Virtual Goods & Currencies report by Sulka Haro (@sulka), ex-Habbo lead designer: bit.ly/Jbr8Xn