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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizin... by hooande on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:17AM (#29921616)
why would you assume that half the player base would pay for this? Most free games have an average of closer to 5% paid conversion, to my knowledge. This would make him closer to $100k from one time purchases. Before taxes and expenses.

I don't think he should monetize it in any way. He didn't set out to start a game development business. I'm also really questioning the baseline numbers and averages used in your example.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizin... by bena on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:20AM (#29922463)
That was a shot in the dark, to be honest.

For those conversions, is that when there's both a free version and a paid version?

Regardless, even with half of his users, it's a decent chunk of change, but it's not "fuck you" money.

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