Board Thread:Frustrations and venting/@comment-11264457-20130926171250/@comment-11264457-20130926184929

Is it fair to say that there are about 30,000 active players playing this game at any one time? I know if you start a new account you begin at 0 with a rank of 200,000+ and by level 8 you are at 60,xxx. It would be funny to see how many new players stopped right at level 8 last month.

As a business model, Applying the 80/20 rule doesn't even fit since it's the top 200 players that provide the majority of the income for Mobage making it more like 99.666/.333 rule. This seems rather dangerous to me. Instead of creating incentives for lower tiers to want to spend money, Mobage is basically disregarding those lower tier players and the potential they might have to grow their business while also pissing off the Tier 1 players at the same time.