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@Christopher\_Bishop

Just my two cents,

Applications and Games should never have any one point of failure so in this example if in the “off chance” that  the plugin could not reach the license server then your app/game should be smart enough to fall back to something like adMob or another ad network.

@dfox, if you have a game that is that popular then you need to upgrade to enterprise anyway and in which case you can just download the actual Chart Boost SDK and recompile or simply fall back to another ad network if the license fails.

Everything above you should be doing anyway because take the license check out of the equation for a second and you still have the same problem, and from what little experience I have with Chart Boost I can tell you that I would be more concerned about Chart Boost going up and down than I would be about Gremlins plugin but that is just in my experience.

I actually just started building my own ad network not a money earning, or pay to advertise model but a simple for every ad you show yours gets shown etc. already built the back end and have been using it for about 3 weeks with about 4-5 k impressions per day just on my own stuff testing was just going to put it online and make it free so new games could get a boost in installs/ratings to help all the indies out

In any case I use Amazon S3 so when the app first loads I pull down a json file that actually tells the game “by id” what ads it should be running so for example if it gets a 3 that means run chartboost, admob and my network on a round robin type rotation, if it gets a 4 it means just run Chart Boost but fall back to admob, so on and so forth I have a ton of different values for this.

Then at any given time I can update the json file push it up to my S3 and everyone of my games switch ad networks on the fly without any new updates etc.

Any way just my two cents.

@Gremlin, you guys are doing a great job

Thanks

Just a note to any enterprise customers. Our plugins are also available for you. Links to grab the binaries are on our plugin documentation pages.

@joe528

I can understand your investment/return concern. I don’t know how big the market is for Corona+Chartboost, maybe you already did some research before committing to do the plugins. So if it’s big enough for you to make money from research, maybe there is some marketing work or word-of-mouth needed in order for your plugins to be known/purchased by more developers. Besides, for plugin business, I think it’s more long-term & smaller but steady income instead of a quick jump in revenue. For example, if you can make $500 a month after more marketing & enhanced quality, you will make your money back after 30 months and you will continue make money for the life time of the plugin, maybe another 5-10 years. Hence, you may want to find the balance between further investment, marketing and returns.

I think it needs some time before your plugin can take off. For example, after I tried your plugin and Chartboost, I really like your plugin and I also like the return of Chartboost. So I will mention about it here and there and people will start to know Chartboost is actually a good service provider and your plugin is actually a good work. You just don’t have enough people saying about it “yet”.

Thanks Joe, it probably is marketing. Either that or the market isn’t big enough… who knows. :>