Free to paid applications...

Breezeonhold

So I've been updating my game for awhile now trying to make it at the level of a paid game. Of course I could make it a paid game now; however I want it to be worth someones buck.

Anyways I'm getting 500 free downloads per day for my game. If I change my game to paid, and make it $.99 then what will likely be my paid downloads? Anyone have any figures that I could work with? Or is it basically random? Could I expect to get 5 downloads per day paid at least?

Thanks,

Ben

UtopianGames

Not sure how it works tbh m8 but i would say yes to the 5 downloads a day.

I mean if your ranked in the free charts then make it 99c you will auto drop out of the free ranks and be like 2000th or something..i think?

Let us know how you get on if you do decide to charge for it.

Best of luck.

Darren.

JamesZeppelin

If you can i would just release your paid version as just that.
A new paid version.
Either treat your free version as a lite or delete it.

You have absolutly nothing to lose by doing this.

As Darren said you drop to the bottom off any sort of rank so noone will find your app other than searching if they know about it or by keywords.

At least with a fresh release you get to be featured on the new releases.

Plus there shouldn't be any ethical issues since you wont be re charging anyone by accident. THe original was free.

dknell

JamesZeppelin makes a good point about releasing a brand new app as your paid version. However, I do recall hearing something about Apple rejecting apps that are identical to another app to prevent people from gaming the system.

In your case, if you wanted to keep the high ranking for your free app you may have to name it SomeFunGame LITE and remove some features, levels, whatever. Then release a NEW app called SomeFunGame - which would have all of the features, levels, etc.

Read through the App Store policy about duplicate games and you may get a better idea of what you can and cannot do.

Good luck!

charlieaf92

If 500 people a day are downloading your app, you have essentially built a contact list of people interested in the content of your app - you can use that to your advantage.

I would recommend making a paid version of the same app - with at least 1 major feature enhancement. Then put it online for sale. Then, submit an update for your free app (something small, maybe even just 'bug fixes') and advertise in the update that a new premium version is available in the app store.

Riffel

if you have a pro license put a link to the paid version... I think people dont you do search, u will lost a lot of your consumer if they needs do a search...