Virtual Property

People tend to like to spend money on digital things when it comes to gaming. With social networking sites, I guess the internet phone services do not cut it anymore. People like to have their games and then pay to advance in them without any effort on their part. They also buy "things" and services to be able to do what they want in the game. It seems like the more money someone has to spend, the better they will be in that game regardless of whether they are good at it or not. Studies have shown that it is people who are mobile gamers who spend the money, which is $14 on average per month. Here is more on the study:


Flurry broke up the kinds of in-app content that can be purchased in most freemium games into three categories: “durable” things, like in-game items that offer a permanent boost to a player; “consumable” things, or things that get used up when they’re used; and “personalization” things, like character costumes. Of the three categories, more than two-thirds (68 percent) of the items people were buying fell into the “consumable” category, meaning players are buying things that will only temporarily affect their game.

Another 30 percent of purchases were “durable,” or more permanent, items. Only 2 percent of purchases were personalization items, which suggests that many of the in-game items available in freemium games (that let players customize how their farms look or dress up their characters in special clothes, for example) are getting passed over.