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How to Sell a Mobile App or Game Outside App Stores

FastSpring

If you’re not sure how to sell an app direct to consumer (D2C) outside the app stores — or if you’re looking for a new way to monetize your mobile app or game — you may be wondering what options you have. Various tools you can use to monetize apps and games outside app stores. Highlights from recent U.S. Interested?

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Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want?

FastSpring

As mobile game and app developers gasp for air under a player-gouging 30% duopoly-tax on nearly all mobile game revenue worldwide, Epic Games has emerged as the de facto leader of the gaming community in the fight for open computing on mobile. There were no gatekeepers — just a computer, a player, and a game.

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Marketing Your Video Game Outside of Game Marketplaces & App Stores

FastSpring

Todd Harris knows how to leverage effective video game marketing strategies to get games in front of players. As the former COO and Co-Founder of Hi-Rez Studios, he spent 15 years making games and marketing them to gamers — with the studio’s games reaching 150 million players. (At

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What the Epic Games vs. Apple Injunction Means for Software Companies

FastSpring

Regardless of whether you believe that Epic Games or Apple won in the recent U.S. Pending Apple’s appeal, the Gonzalez Rogers ruling would enable developers to link to external payment systems (like FastSpring!) for in-app purchases — good news for companies that monetize with an upsell or upgrade pricing model.

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Shining a Light on a Growing Ecommerce Threat: Chargeback Fraud

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Experts report that chargebacks will cost merchants over $100 billion in 2023, and false claims and abuse of the chargeback process are a growing threat to merchants. And yet many retailers remain unaware of chargeback fraud and its harmful impacts on business revenues. Internet payments mean more purchases.

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How a Lack of Direct-to-Consumer Options Hurts Players

FastSpring

A lot of big changes around direct-to-consumer options in the games industry have been going on in the past few months. A ruling in favor of Epic in Epic Games v. Apple’s most recent announcement of policy changes skirting around the new DMA rules. For example: The settlement between U.S. States and Google.

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Epic Games Versus The App Store: A Fight for Autonomy and Freedom in the Ecommerce Era

FastSpring

According to Statista , there are millions of apps available for download across each of these platforms: Yet in August, Epic Games took aim at Apple’s App Store, claiming that their commission cut was unacceptable. The company’s move to circumvent Apple’s App Store policies with its app Fortnite triggered a lawsuit in the process.

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