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Re:Japanese Mobile Gaming Company Gree Buys OpenFeint For $1... by trotsky on Thursday April 21, 2011 @10:10PM (#2473077)
Is anyone able to explain the OpenFeint business model in a nutshell? Are games paying to have OpenFeint support? That doesn't seem likely in this environment. The OpenFeint platform, at least on android, doesn't seem to offer any cross promotion or advertising.

Is it a spyware/marketing intelligence play?

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Re:Japanese Mobile Gaming Company Gree Buys OpenFeint For $1... by foobar2k on Thursday April 21, 2011 @10:26PM (#2473110)
OpenFeint cross promote games through their "Free game of the day" model and charge developers for the promotion. It's a standard CPI model.
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