First play for 2 weeks, then do the core loop, break down the core loop, analyse the difference between benchmark titles etc. I started writing this post some time ago as I do with all of my deconstructions. Read on to see the results of this uncanny ballet of ideas. We’ve heard varying estimates for the amount of the fee.In this guest post, Michail Katkoff combines his game analytics wisdom with the hands-on experience of Timur Haussila, Product Lead at Supercell, to tell you the story of the studio’s game Hay Day, from the very first idea to launch. Third-party Android stores there have enforced the requirement for several years and Apple has recently needed to do so as well in order to continue operating the App Store within China.

Sensor Tower said that the Chinese government has a list of requirements for obtaining a license to release mobile games there, and each title requires its own license. But she said it is a tedious process and a developer will need to know what to do and submit the forms in Chinese. The law isn’t new.”Ĭosmas Hanson said the application fee is negligible. The emotional impact on the removal of thousands of games is significant. “The overall impact on the China derived mobile games market revenue will be minimal, as 97 of the top 100 games have the requisite license. “Apple is following through on enforcing an existing regulation that prohibits publishing and distributing games without a government-issued ISBN,” Niko Partners president Lisa Cosmas Hanson said in an email. Of the games removed, nearly 2,000 titles had generated less than 10,000 downloads since 2012. Sensor Tower said its 2,500 game figure is only capturing those games that were large enough to rank in the App Store’s game subcategories at some point. The games removed in the first seven days of July had generated a combined $34.7 million in lifetime gross revenue in China, and had accumulated more than 133 million downloads in the country.

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