Post your experience with IAP

General (non-technical) Marketing and Monetization
#1

Hello there

I’m wondering how to approach this IAP purchase thing.

I believe you can:

-Use IAP in a lite version to upgrade to the full version of a game.

-Use IAP to offer extra levels/equipment

-Use IAP to encourage progress

Has it been worth it for you? Have you had many conversions from lite to full? Have you sold many extra levels/equipment?

Essentially, is it worth it?

I have searched for this info on forums, but not found the answer. If it has been answered before, a link would be great.

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#2

Hey there,

I haven’t seen it discussed here either, I don’t think - but Googling it you will get lots of results from different developer websites :slight_smile:

I haven’t used it to upgrade from lite to full (yet), however I have used it in my game Pixel Slice Plus for more “pixels” (coins you use to buy new modes, items and swords with) - that has gone quite well and I’d certainly do it again.

Peach :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 15174 reply_id: 56141[/import]

#3

Thank you, Peach.

Yes, I have looked online via google and there are many developers who swear by IAP, and other who don’t think it made any difference at all.

I was interested in people’s experience of it here :slight_smile:

So you, personally, use as an ‘extra’ to something people have already paid for then. I ca see that it wouldn’t hurt this way to generate extra income.

How have people done with the ‘freemium’ model. Have you had more downloads? What percentage have upgraded by buying the full game? Was it worth putting in, or did you make more money with a paid app instead of free?

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#4

I’ve actually tried IAP in two ways thus far; extra content in paid apps (clients) and extra content in my own free apps.

Both seem to work quite well, honestly.

For the upgrade to paid I am planning to test this soon in an upcoming app I believe has great potential, so at that stage I’ll post an update :slight_smile:

Peach [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 15174 reply_id: 56246[/import]