Comments on: The iOS Game Revenue Survey

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By: First Day Launch Data! | Exit Plan Studios

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By: Results: iOS Game Revenue Survey « Streaming Colour Studios

Results: iOS Game Revenue Survey « Streaming Colour Studios — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:55:37 +0000

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By: Trevor Fountain

Trevor Fountain — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:41:35 +0000

Brilliant idea — it’s a wonder (and a crime!) that nobody’s done this already. Of course, you could argue that it’s a crime Apple doesn’t provide this information in some form. We really shouldn’t have to scrape and scrounge for basic market information like this…

Oh, and while I’m looking forward to those fancy charts, is there any chance you’d be willing to release the raw data, suitably anonymised? Could be useful for further analysis.

By: OG

OG — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:20:35 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! And thanks to everyone who has filled out the survey so far! To address a few of the specific comments:

@Dani – I chose a week because I figured if someone didn’t fill it out within a week, they probably wouldn’t in a month either. Nothing like a deadline to motivate people.

So far the survey has been posted to: twitter, this blog, 148Apps.biz, TouchArcade forums, iPhoneDevSDK forums, cocos2d forums, and Unity forums. If there are other places anyone can think to post it, please do help spread the word.

@Dani, @Gui – There are a lot of questions I would have liked to have added. The original draft of the survey was much more detailed and longer than what I ended up with. However, after talking with people who had run surveys before, I decided that the best way to get the most people answering was to keep the survey as concise as possible, while gathering the data I thought was most important. So I decided to focus the survey on games released and revenue, with a focus on the past 12 months. The goal being to get an idea of what the App Store market looks like right now. It would be great to get data on money spent, marketing budgets, but I was worried I’d be losing a lot of potential respondents. I hope that makes sense.

Owen

By: Gui

Gui — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:03:26 +0000

I agree with adding a question about how much money you invested. A lot of us have spent 5+ months jobless while we develop our games, and forfeit about 20k worth of salary for a game that has a chance of returning under 1 k in revenue

By: Kaolin Fire

Kaolin Fire — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:07:42 +0000

Added my datapoint as a hobbyist. Only one game for the iPhone, and it was pulled after a few short months when EA/The Tetris Company got their short-and-curlies in a bunch. :/ Can still play the game, just not on the iPhone ~ erif.org/code/fallingup/