Kingdom of Loathing's Stats
Raph Koster got a chance to talk to the guys from Kingdom of Loathing (the indie, web-based, fantasy-parody MMORPG) at Comic-Con and got some interesting information and statistics from them.

Excerpt:

"These guys are determinedly indie: they sell merchandise, but they do it just about at cost. For income, they mostly rely on donations for the premium items, but they don’t engage in what most of the industry would call a real microtransaction business."

Anyway, you can check out the data here:

Kingdom of Loathing Is Doing Quite Well

Bear in mind that most of the accounts are free. I have no idea what the percentage of accounts that end up providing donations, though when I was playing with some folks at work a couple of years back, almost everyone in our group ended up donating money to get a "Mr. Accessory."

There's also an interesting discussion in the comments about the "summer slump" in MMORPGs.

Labels: Biz, Indie Evangelism

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