Comments on: Odds and Ends http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/44/odds-and-ends/ Phil Steinmeyer's rumblings on the game biz, programming, and life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:21:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mike Rozak http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/44/odds-and-ends/#comment-123 Mike Rozak Sat, 04 Feb 2006 02:49:42 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/44/odds-and-ends/#comment-123 Thanks. That's good to know. Thanks. That’s good to know.

]]> By: Phil Steinmeyer http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/44/odds-and-ends/#comment-120 Phil Steinmeyer Fri, 03 Feb 2006 04:19:36 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/44/odds-and-ends/#comment-120 They're kinda weak for casual games - it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff when you're browsing. Whereas the portals are mostly well set up, with top 10 lists, good categorization, filtering out of bad games, etc. The vast bulk of casual game sales are through portals, and to a much lesser extent, developer's own sites. General-purpose shareware-y sites like download.com are very minor in this biz. For instance, Bonnie's Bookstore on Download.com has 335 downloads to date. That's well under 1% of total downloads of the game (weeeeeelllll under) They’re kinda weak for casual games - it’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff when you’re browsing. Whereas the portals are mostly well set up, with top 10 lists, good categorization, filtering out of bad games, etc.

The vast bulk of casual game sales are through portals, and to a much lesser extent, developer’s own sites. General-purpose shareware-y sites like download.com are very minor in this biz. For instance, Bonnie’s Bookstore on Download.com has 335 downloads to date. That’s well under 1% of total downloads of the game (weeeeeelllll under)

]]> By: Mike Rozak http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/44/odds-and-ends/#comment-119 Mike Rozak Fri, 03 Feb 2006 04:05:21 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/44/odds-and-ends/#comment-119 Are sites like download.com and tucows not good for game downloads? Are sites like download.com and tucows not good for game downloads?

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