Christmas-time = holidays = time for Online-Games? Regarding 75 % of the internet-users, the answer would be a clear yes. According to a study of deutsche-startups.de and Innofact, 78 % of the women and 72 % of the men out themselves as Online-Gamers. While women mostly like to play educational games, fungames and build up plays, men feel comfortable with action-games, strategy-games and racing games.
Gamers prefer browser games and massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs): 24 % of them play browser games, 14 % of them MMOGs, weekly, 12 % respectively 7 % play daily.
In the longer term, offine games are likely to fall by the wayside.
Online Games
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The study of deutsche-startups.de and Innofact shows as well, that gamers are basically willing to pay for the service: Admittedly, 77 % of the internet-users don’t want to pay for the browser game itself, but accept advertising in the game. There should be a free basic version of the browser game, but 12 % of the players would pay for special features. For 10 % of the gamers, a game free of advertising is the bait – they would be open for payment to have no ads. 9 % of the internet-users think it’s adequate to pay a monthly contribution for the browser game to enjoy all its features.
Browser Games
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