NewfyFarm
10-18-11, 12:11 PM
I get that you want to raise your ranking in the Apple store by having everyone download your Halloween games.
You could have approached this two ways:
1. Offer a reward ? a small amount of gems (5-7). Result- all your customers are happy, everyone downloads the game, they have a few pennies to buy your halloween stuff (you haven?t given them enough for 1 item) maybe enough to push them to buy something they would not normally have because it is perceived as cheaper. You go up in ratings. Its WIN-WIN.
2. Set your push notifications for every 5 minutes. Offer nothing but constant harassment until everyone downloads your game. Result:
a. Those who would have anyway, download your game and like it. WIN
b. Those who have a low tolerance download it soon after the notifications start just to stop them. They are irritated but glad they have stopped the constant interruptions. LOSE
c. Those that don?t download quickly are irritated. They notice the game crashes about ? the time that the push notifications come up. BIGGER LOSE
d. People who cannot due to time or space or simply do not want to because they do not like the game you are pushing, get past irritated to darn-right angry and plant longer plants, stop watering and complain about you on line. FAIL.
e. People in c+d also rank you 1 star in the store. FAIL
So why didn?t you do #1??
I have no idea why any company would seek out to irritate, ?harass?, as much as possible the customers they have in hand. If you don?t think you have a huge problem with this, then just come read my wall in the 24 hours since I told all my neighbors and visitors that I am going down to watering every other day due to all the pop ups. I had over 85 push notifications for restaurant story last weekend alone. I have so many posts on my wall, that already at least 20 of them have fallen off due to space. At least half the people who visit my farm are in the FED UP category.
What you are doing is one of the oddest business decisions I have ever seen.
You could have approached this two ways:
1. Offer a reward ? a small amount of gems (5-7). Result- all your customers are happy, everyone downloads the game, they have a few pennies to buy your halloween stuff (you haven?t given them enough for 1 item) maybe enough to push them to buy something they would not normally have because it is perceived as cheaper. You go up in ratings. Its WIN-WIN.
2. Set your push notifications for every 5 minutes. Offer nothing but constant harassment until everyone downloads your game. Result:
a. Those who would have anyway, download your game and like it. WIN
b. Those who have a low tolerance download it soon after the notifications start just to stop them. They are irritated but glad they have stopped the constant interruptions. LOSE
c. Those that don?t download quickly are irritated. They notice the game crashes about ? the time that the push notifications come up. BIGGER LOSE
d. People who cannot due to time or space or simply do not want to because they do not like the game you are pushing, get past irritated to darn-right angry and plant longer plants, stop watering and complain about you on line. FAIL.
e. People in c+d also rank you 1 star in the store. FAIL
So why didn?t you do #1??
I have no idea why any company would seek out to irritate, ?harass?, as much as possible the customers they have in hand. If you don?t think you have a huge problem with this, then just come read my wall in the 24 hours since I told all my neighbors and visitors that I am going down to watering every other day due to all the pop ups. I had over 85 push notifications for restaurant story last weekend alone. I have so many posts on my wall, that already at least 20 of them have fallen off due to space. At least half the people who visit my farm are in the FED UP category.
What you are doing is one of the oddest business decisions I have ever seen.