Mobile Gaming Revolution

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The gaming market has long-since been one of the biggest earners in the entertainment industry. In fact, the global gaming market generated just under $110 billion in revenue in 2017 alone, $82 billion of which came from free-to-play games that offered in-app purchases (IAPs).

 More recently, the mobile gaming industry has been growing by leaps and bounds. Part of the multi-billion dollar app economy, the mobile gaming market is believed to generate as much as 75% of the app market revenue– a market that’s expected to be worth $101 billion in 2020. According to a study by Apptopia, developer titan, Supercell (known for popular titles like Clash Royale and Clash of Clans) generated all but a million of their $145 million revenue in 2017 from IAPs; $114 million of Activision Blizzard’s $116 million earnings in the same year were attributed to IAPs as well.

 The Future of Gaming
The future of gaming doesn't console and PC games – it’s mobile gaming. More specifically, mobile games built on the freemium model. The Chinese market alone consists of 500 million people – more gamers than the United States has citizens – and is expected to be worth $14.4 billion by 2021.

 Freemium games allow users to play games for free but require IAPs for upgrades, rare items, unique skins, and other services that provide customizations or competitive advantages.

 As the demand for freemium games like Candy Crush and Angry Birds increases, there’ll also be a need for better payment-processing solutions that are both attractive to developers and can handle wide-scale payments without experiencing downtime.

 As I had read about OPEN Platform come up with a New Solution to Games and IAPs
Currently, most game purchases and IAPs are processed through digital marketplaces like Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store. Innovative for their time, these platforms are widely ineffective in the modern gaming market because of:
  • Expensive middleman fees that can take as much as 30% of the developer’s earnings.
  • Payment cycles that last between 30 to 90 days.
  • but Lack of cryptocurrency payment options.
The OPEN Platform solves this problem by giving developers a modern payment-processing solution that’s cheaper (3% transaction fees, all of which is recycled back into the developer pool for platform incentivization) and more effective than payment solutions on centralized marketplaces.

 But still, I have few questions on Open Platform
  1. Is it apple & Google will allow this payment system for games?
  2. Is it player will be satisfied and feel secure with using this system in games?

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