Does setting a paid app that is currently selling everyday free for a few days boost or decrease sales in your experience? I'd appreciate people's opinions.
In my Experience, I do it with ePig Rope http://www.epiggames.com/games/e-pig-rope Got 50.000 Downloads in 2 days, and sales for the next 2 or 3 weeks Doubled or Tripled, So it was a good strategy for me.
SlickZeroHouston, TexasMember, Sous ChefPosts: 2,870
Setting it free for a few days, or having a free version gets you a lot more exposure for sure. Instead of 10 sales a day, you'd likely get hundreds or thousands of downloads a day on the free version, and some of those people may decide to go ahead and buy the full version, if the game is good.
Setting an app free for a bit is pretty much the only thing you can do if you have no other means of marketing it. downloads go crazy on free stuff and the trick is to do it for just a day or two. If you offer it any longer, even the free downloads will taper off (in my experience at least).
The plus side is that tons of web sites will pick up the price change. The minus side is that (i think) you will lose the N&N rating? Maybe someone else can confirm this?
I wouldn't set an existing paid app to free, then add ads because it will peev all te people who paid for a game with no ads.
I've just made one of my apps free, it has gamecenter(non-gs) so I'm going to use the leaderboard as a tell of how many are downloading, hopefully it will be alot. setting back to paid after a few days.
I set all my apps free for 4 hours and got a couple thousand downloads. After they went paid again I sold about 100. Unfortunately the next 4 days my sales dropped drastically to only 1-2 a day. So for me, not worth it unless just for exposure.
My game was doing 0 downloads for a week after 2nd wk of release. now i made it free so far there's 3-4 downloads a day sometime 7. But then not a very impressive no. Probably still need some promoting .
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Got 50.000 Downloads in 2 days, and sales for the next 2 or 3 weeks Doubled or Tripled, So it was a good strategy for me.
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downloads go crazy on free stuff and the trick is to do it for just a day or two.
If you offer it any longer, even the free downloads will taper off (in my experience at least).
The plus side is that tons of web sites will pick up the price change.
The minus side is that (i think) you will lose the N&N rating? Maybe someone else can confirm this?
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xF
My plan is to try to following:
1. Free for 1-2 days
2. Release lite as soon as free period is over
This way people who see that the price is back on and will not want to buy, might go for the lite version instead of not downloading at all.
What do you guys think?
I've just made one of my apps free, it has gamecenter(non-gs) so I'm going to use the leaderboard as a tell of how many are downloading, hopefully it will be alot. setting back to paid after a few days.
Also businesses lower prices everyday, it is just part of life.
If Pro, don't Spawn Actor that have iAds.
Else, Spawn actor with iAds.
But now we don't have in App in Gs.
Cheers.
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