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DFC Intelligence: F2P market worth $2 billion by 2015

By james_fudge

According to a new report from DFC Intelligence, the market for English based free-to-play games will grow from $250 million in 2009 to $2 billion by 2015. DFC Intelligence says that growth will be attributed to broadband adoption and consumer comfort with buy digital content. Further, DFC Intelligence says that, by the end of 2010, English free-to-play games will have 128 million registered users.

"For many Korean companies the market in North America has not taken off nearly as fast as they expected,' said DFC analyst Insun Yoon. 'Much of this can be attributed to the immature infrastructure and a lack of established payment and service mechanisms. The good news is that this is starting to change and consumers are starting to realize that the game play of top high-end F2P games can be quite sophisticated." Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).