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Isaac Knowles's Blog

I am a PhD student at Indiana University, working under Edward Castronova. I study and analyze game systems and player behavior, especially from the perspective of economics (in which I hold an MS). I also currently work for a game analytics consultancy/start-up (not yet public).

My (overlong) research agenda can be found here. I also blog semi-regularly for Motivate.Play.

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Pay-to-trade
Posted by Isaac Knowles on Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:38:00 EDT in Design, Business/Marketing, Console/PC, Social/Online
Multiplayer games are restricting trade with increasing frequency. This reduces the cost of economic management, but it also means you lose valuable information. It also creates an opportunity for a new revenue stream.
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Comment In: The Language of Monetization Design [Feature - 03/13/2013 - 04:00]
It 's useful to have ... It 's useful to have a classification system for revenue models. I think there are two big unanswered questions, though. r n r nThe first relates to the standard Acquisition/Conversion/Retention issues. Each of these payment models is going to have a huge effect on individual incentives to a try the ...