Re:Dad horrified at £4,642 gaming app bill
by balladeer on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:28AM
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A friend, who worked at a famous mobile/Fb gaming company, once told me his company would, sometimes, assign an engineer for an individual user or just few users. High spending users.
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Re:Dad horrified at £4,642 gaming app bill
by lapsed_pacifist on Saturday July 04, 2020 @01:23PM
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"whales" is the free-to-p(l)ay/ freemium games industry term for this sort of power user, who will spend vastly more than the average user and carries the lions share of the profit for the developer.