JeffL

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by JeffL 15y ago
Hmm, "industry standard pricing"? Seems to me that $3 - $4 is maybe a little high? You can get recent movies from Redbox for $1 and get DVD quality and watch on your TV without jumping through any hoops, or for the price of 2-3 of the You
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by JeffL 16y ago
Also a limit on how much Karma you can get from one article submission. A lot of times it feels like luck when someone submits something and gets hundreds of Karma for it because they posted it first.
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Discussions in Google Docs(youtube.com)
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by JeffL 16y ago
Sounds like a cool idea. It would be interesting to see the rules you're using in addition to the pictures of the dungeons.
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by JeffL 16y ago
We were getting Spam bots on our forum which uses the same registration info as our game. We used Captcha for a bit, but also noticed a big decrease in conversion rate, so then we tweaked the forum software a bit to require that you have g
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by JeffL 16y ago
I think it's interesting that he mentions that monitor + keyboard is better than a tablet because it separates out the input from the output areas and the "hands don't get in the way". But if you take the total surface of the keyboard plus
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by JeffL 16y ago
Seems to me they should let people click their buzzers as soon as they want to, and then just take whoever clicked first. Having to wait for the question to finish being asked seems like it makes it a lot more random rather than skill-base
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by JeffL 16y ago
I'm not sure what exactly this is, but I've been behind people a few times where they are using some kind of elaborate coupons that the cashier has to double check and compare to the items and it takes literally 5+ minutes to go through it
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by JeffL 16y ago
Just curious, how have you marketed it so far? I see 75 people online right now, how many total players in month do you have? Monetization is free to play with an item mall?
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by JeffL 16y ago
I reject the premise of the entire article that "The hole is too big to plug with cost cutting or economic growth alone." The hole was created by increasing spending, it can be closed by reducing spending.
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by JeffL 16y ago
"Unfair" by what standard? Why is it unfair to tax two different people the same amount on the same purchases?
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by JeffL 16y ago
I don't agree. In order to game, there has to be different rules to take advantage of. The fewer and simpler the rules, the less you can manipulate it. Take sales taxes, for example. You can't really game them. You can evade them, but
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by JeffL 16y ago
Seems like if we just had a large sales tax, rather than income taxes, none of these things would be so complicated, and we'd save so much money on the cost of compliance.
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by JeffL 16y ago
Wow, sounds like I've been doing it all wrong for four years. Pretty much just thrown up some adwords and worked on my game and never really thought about SEO at all since it all seemed a little bit sleazy.
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by JeffL 16y ago
Thanks for the article. I think it will be helpful. Can I ask, either OP or anyone else, what sort of percent of your traffic comes from SEO? I've seen it stated on the web that 70%-80% of traffic comes from searches, but for me, it's mor
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by JeffL 16y ago
I wonder about this, too. My guess is that they are afraid people would make fake accounts and game the system, though people are gaming the system with link farms anyway, so... I think another comment that I saw on a different article ha
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by JeffL 16y ago
If the game doesn't optimize down the total data it sends, then it's constantly filling the buffers, so there's no waiting for buffers to fill which can reduce ping times.
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by JeffL 16y ago
Don't know if I'm awesome at content network, but about 95% of my adwords clicks are coming from the content network and not from actual search. I get people via Adwords at less than 20 cents a click. According to Facebook, the minimum bid
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by JeffL 16y ago
If I have a goldmine, it's been eluding me. I'm not that great at marketing and seem to be able to only get so many people in with adwords. People pay $10/mo, so a new user is worth something like $200 and I'm currently bringing them in v
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by JeffL 16y ago
Really interesting for me to read this analysis. For my online game, conversion of people who visit the landing page is about 0.5%, but once they're paying, churn is in the 3%-5% range per month, which is around 25 months retention on aver
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by JeffL 16y ago
But people don't want to know you're A/B testing on them with prices. Didn't Amazon get in trouble over that and have to back peddle? Seems like you have to A/B test over time and not offer different prices simultaneously or else you risk
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by JeffL 16y ago
Looks like a cool site. Free link juice?
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by JeffL 16y ago
Seems to me like the Internet is a wide open place for people to make games on their own. That's what I'm doing. It seems to me like "working for the man" as a game programmer is making less and less sense with all the options available t
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by JeffL 16y ago
Well, you also have to know what to try. I had a local maximum on my landing page and wasn't getting it any better until I started reading articles like this, and my latest one is 60% better than the old. A/B testing alone isn't always en
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by JeffL 16y ago
So why is someone who sounds as awesome as the guy who wrote this article having to deal this sort of nonsense?
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by JeffL 16y ago
Are those benefits that you wouldn't get in an open office? Personally, I prefer the open office, with 2-4 people in a room together, and feel like cubicles are the worst of both worlds. With the cubicle, it's like you're cut off from eve
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by JeffL 16y ago
If anyone isn't aware of Microsoft's BizSpark program, you should definitely check it out. Basically all of MS's software free for 2 years for startups. This has helped my start up a lot, and makes good sense for them, I think.
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by JeffL 16y ago
Is there any performance reason to use this as DNS as opposed to the DNS servers on register.com for just a regular web site?
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by JeffL 16y ago
On the last page it says "Currency union without fiscal union is bound to fail -- and we are seeing the failure right now." I guess the argument is that if each country has their own currency, they can devalue it when they are having proble
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by JeffL 16y ago
A simple color change or font change on the browser tab would do it, though I'm not sure if that's technically possible. Maybe another idea could be a popup when it's done where you can choose how long you want your break?

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