September 17, 2016 – game economist consulting

Eric Seufert’s Best F2P Blog Post Isn’t About F2P

i.o.By pblack September 17, 2016 Leave a comment

Everyone’s favorite former Rovio employee is a prolific writer on F2P games; the closest we have to a Fukuyama. Seufert has covered a range of topics, but none more important than internal organization. Seufert argues for a number of institutional policies to surround analysts with within an organization. Frequently, analytics and data are as much about…

F2P Demand Curves Are Weird, Just Ask Levitt

academia invadesBy pblack September 17, 2016 1 Comment

Steve Levitt, the last price theory samurai, and John List, future nobel prize winner, have published a paper on free to play economics. In a textbook neoclassical experiment, Levitt alters the quantity of Candy Crush hard currency at a given price point. While economists generally think of price variation as the way of deriving demand…