• While new game downloads plateaued in 2024, in-app purchases grew 3.8 percent compared to 2023.
  • The game that drew in the highest revenue based on in-app purchases for 2024 was Monopoly Go.
  • However, Tencent continues to dominate the mobile gaming space with the company drawing in over $10 billion in revenue from mobile games.
  • PiJiNWiNg
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    1 day ago

    Wtf are people even buying? Different board pieces or something?

  • starman2112
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    22 hours ago

    Scopely is also buying Pokemon Go, just in case y’all somehow still needed a reason to uninstall it

  • PunkiBas@lemmy.world
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    I’ve seen a couple break up because of monopoly, it brings the worst out of some people, why would you want to play it on the go? hrmm…, maybe people like to get riled up…

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    1 day ago

    The entire business model is a scam.

    All counterarguments have been bickering about word choice when tricking people out of their money, or glibly endorsing tricking people out of their money.