Base wrote:
krisgp wrote:
i'd rather sponser games than more ads. plus, sponser games tend to pay out better.
Ditto. If more games means less ads, the bring on the games!
Indeed. If it meant getting rid of the bottom ads (I don't mind the top bar ads quite as much as perhaps I should) then I say make half the games sponsor games.
calvinorion wrote:
coming2atvnearu wrote:
I was always surprised that they didn't add the games there.
Personally, if I was paying Neopets to advertise for me and they only had a little blurb once on the new features page, I'd be pretty darn tootin mad.
Agreed. Also I would insist that my companies game gave out the maximum 1,000 np's. With most of these sponsor games the average payout that most players can get from them is 300 - 350 np's.
So it's usually not worth the effort to play them. Especially since alot of them are very time consuming and difficult to play. Difficult, not in a challenging way, but in a tedious, irritating way.
I think like most people I play new sponsor games one time to see what they are like and then never play them again.
But if we could get the maximum 1,000np's from them we would all be playing them everyday and developing strong cravings for Kelloggs products no doubt.
I don't think that making them worth 1000 neopoints is a good idea, because many of them are actually very easy. All of those multiple-choice trivia games, for example.
Now, one thing that would make more people play sponsor games is adding a trophy feature. Why not create a separate high score list (instead of
http://www.neopets.com/gamescores.phtml?game_id=400, have it be sponsorgamescores.phtml?game_id=whatever), and then create one single trophy for all sponsor games. That way, like with mystery pic, you could be "First place in sponsor games! (x4)." People play games for trophies.
So without increasing payout, you still get an increase in plays for each game, which means neopets can charge game sponsors more...which means less reliability on ad generators.