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TheRhombus77 wrote: If 3000 t2/t3 players pay one dollar - Which seems low.

and 200 t1 players pay $200 - which seems about right.

The Ratio would be a lot more even. I don't know if you realize it, but your example there gives total revenue of $43,000 -- and $40,000 is coming from the 200 T1 players, or 93%.

I think that's probably low; I suspect it is at least 95% of game revenue coming from T1 players & chasers. Go look at the event post-mortem threads; in a couple of them I actually broke it down. There was a very sharp $$$ line between T1 and everyone else; over 99% of the money spent was by the T1 crowd. This crowd may not be a representative sample but I suspect it's not far off the truth.

Mobage chases the big spenders and tries to hook them. It's all that they know how to do.