Ep. 103: Maintaining Your Game Economy

<p>In-app purchases are the main way most games make their money, so getting players to not only continue playing your game, but continue purchasing items within your game is hugely important. This week on Mastering Retention, Tom speaks with Haider CW (Director of Economy at Scopely) about how to fine tune your game economy to fit your game and audience, the importance of proper economy maintenance, and so much more!</p><p>Here are your cheat codes:</p><p>0:35 How did Haider CW get into the video game industry?</p><p>1:37 What does a Director of Economy technically do?</p><p>2:38 Economy maintenance for an existing game.</p><p>7:07 Building relationships between rewards.</p><p>13:27 The best way to segment players.</p><p>19:03 Session motivation</p><p>22:02 Progression curve in collection RPG</p><p>23:52 Mitigating mistakes in economy design</p><p>31:40 Fine tuning game economies</p><p>33:22 Different economies for different types of players</p><p>35:14 Looter-Shooter Economies</p><p>39:59 Maintaining player spending.</p><p>43:43 Economy for City Builders</p><p>49:14 How to keep more players around longer.</p>