In-App-Purchase or TapJoy .. or both?

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I’d opt for both + app data monetization.

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@reiti.net

Currently I am developing a new casual game and start to think about monetization.

Until now I relied more or less completely on banner ads so had no real effort for implementing any mechanisms and shops or such stuff.

Now - as experience raises - I think about that things and may take the effort and implement it.

I don’t like to maintain different versions and I may be comfortable with sticking to google play store only.

So I ended up with “unlockable content” which in my case would be for example different game modes.

I am thinking of a main game, which is freely playable but adding different game modes as an extra which can be unlocked.

I may release a first version without the extra content just to see how people like it and then I would be able to add unlockable extra game modes for example

I was thinking of virtual currency for that because that would also give me the opportunity, that players would get small amounts of that currency while playing the game. So if they are playing the game for a long time, they are able to unlock additional content after hours of playing (where they see ads).

So, now here is the question: TapJoy alone does not offer a way of purchasing virtual currency (right?) instead relying on offerwalls and such things.
When I want to add purchases as well, I would need to implement In-App-Purchases by google (right?).

I wonder what is the best approach, maybe some of you has played some games which did a really good job in this subject where I can have a look how they did it.

And no, I will not use the free/paid model - I hate it.

So far, there are drawbacks…

In-App-Purchase: App not available in some countries
TapJoy: Needs annoying permissions

The safest mode here is indeed in-app purchases + user data monetization. If your app has 80 000+ DAU, it can help you earn money from every user who agreed to pass his non-personal info to your app. it requires from minimum to no efforts and allows you to monetize every app user, but the necessary requirement for data monetization is USER CONSENT. The app user must approve that he knows his non-personal data is being gathered.

i didn’t know that and was very fd up when GDPR came - needed to change the data monetization partner to more trusted one. now i work with Appgrow and very happy with my revenue

FYI I have a game app with geos USA LATAM, 5 000 640 installs and approx 800 000 DAU,so pm me if you have game-related questions