Thanks to the guys at Inside Social Games for the write up on GameToyz our FaceBook Arcade sites. Nice comments for an application that has been out of beta for about a week. We are making improvements daily but this is a very nice beginning!
Hi guys,
First of all thanks for the write up. I did want to counter a few points. Currently we are in testing and user growth mode. The amount of coin tournaments is expected to increase over time and the lottery system is going to be replaced by actual lottery scratch off cards and the orbs are just placeholders for now while we finish off the scratch off tickets.
The pirate map is kinda a tie in to our game Pirates of Somalia which comes out of sandbox this week.
A feature that you missed is the ability to challenge your friends for coins. Which sort of mitigates the lack of coin tournaments. As you can challenge a friend for any game. So the meta-game still exists in any high score enabled game. Even if we do not have tournaments running on that game.
We also will only run about 5 cash tournaments at a time as we do not want to dilute the offering of cash games through our sister product “Payout Hub” which allows other developers to add cash tournaments to there games. We have a number of clients in integration of the system and we will be syndicating games with the “payout hub” system as well.
As far as the selection of games. Yes there are some losers in there. But we attempt to weed them out, like I said at the beginning we just became live last week so we are still tweaking out the systems.
Some of other plans are to allow the purchase of virtual currency for our other games directly.
We will be deploying the application to MySpace, Hi5 and the web as well as the facebook version.
Regarding Super VIP Status you get a lot for the 10$ first of all you get 15$ worth of coins the ability to challenge more coins at a time, and the ability to compete in higher stakes tournaments. Also you will able to get different prizes as well as more lottery clicks and map digs per day. So for the active player.
Again I wanted to thank you for the write up but I did want to counter some of the things written and tell you a bit about our plans. If you would like some screen shots of the lottery cards that are replacing the lottery system we can demo those to you. We believe with the challenge anyone system, the coin tournaments, the cash tournaments and the ability to win real tangible prizes we have a superior product to the offerings that are currently available.