In this article, we’ll talk about how monetization works in mobile gaming and what common case studies are in the market. First, we’ll look at the types of paid advertising, and then we’ll analyze specific examples of how monetization works in popular gaming apps so that you can choose the right way to monetize your own app. We’ll also use statements that will help fix certain milestones for the entire mobile GameDev market. How paid games are monetized With paid apps, everything is simple, so we won’t dwell on them for long. There are two models: a one-time purchase of all game content, or a renewable monthly subscription. Both models make the entry threshold significantly lower, and their presence in stores keeps decreasing. Paid gaming apps are becoming a niche product. Most often, this type of monetization is used by quests or console or PC games ported to mobile — that is, the games that barely use procedural rhetoric that makes us perform the same actions every time to get a reward, and are primarily focused on the plot. Statement 1. It would be more correct to say that the paid game model is suitable for video games with end-to-end content, […]