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Let’s go whaling: Tricks for monetising mobile game players with free-to-play
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A 2016 conference talk by a mobile game CEO on the tricks of free-to-play monetization, including player profiles and how to target high-spending whales.
HN mostly cites it critically, as an insider's blunt playbook for psychologically exploiting players in F2P and loot box games.
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