Gameleverancier Big Fish has Apple’s permission to subscriptions for the iPad to sell. Until recently, it had the games a piece to be paid, now may be a fixed amount per month to be paid.
Big Fish is games like mahjong to offer in its own application in the App Store. Gamers pay a subscription fee for use of the programme. It does not matter how many games there are played. Big Fish uses to say that a similar principle as all-you-can-eat.
It is the first time that a gameleverancier subscriptions offers for the iPad. Apple would be ‘longer than normal’ on the approval of the application have done, know Bloomberg. The reason may be that the company, until recently, only nieuwsbedrijven subscriptions through the App Store had to offer. Now it seems the road for gameleveranciers, however, free. Probably other companies also subscriptions for the iPad to offer.
With the subscription games are not downloaded, but via a wi-fi connection directly to the iPad streamed. It is currently not possible to use a 3G connection with the program gaming. Except for iPad subscriptions Big Fish also plans for a launch on smartphones and tablets with Android. Furthermore, the company said a version for televisions with internet access. Details about it are still missing.
The subscription for the iPad is going in the United States seven dollars per month cost. How expensive the service in the Netherlands, is not known. It is certain that except the paid version is also a free version, that allows gamers to thirty minutes per day can play. Big Fish shows in the free version there is ads.
Game-subscriptions achieved in the past, to varying results. Although Big Fish thirty percent of the revenue must give it to Apple, the company expects that the service will finally become profitable. “The popularity of the iPad, together with the payment method of the App Store the service attractive,” says Big Fish.