So There was a great post under feature requests for CAD pricing and I would like to highlight it with the numbers from your own paper listing it as the #1 success factor:
($25 .15 = $3.75 an hour / 60 minutes = $.0625 per minute)
Currently your average rate of 6.4 cents works out to 8.5 cents Canadian yet we are still at the $25 CAD price point so 8.560=$5.10 an hour which works out to over 25% of gross sales which puts Canadian arcades well above the amount you have identified as being able to be profitable/successful. We would have to charge $34/hour in order to make that magic 15% work which would price us right out of the market. I realize that developers want to get compensated for their hard work, but if they are pricing their product to the point that we can't stay in business by providing it nobody is going to win.
Either way, they are not making any money, and if we are competing with another local arcade that isn't paying licensing or have already worked out deals in CAD (such as CTRL-V), they can afford to drop their prices much lower and push us out of the market ensuring that the arcades that are trying to pay the developers are the ones going out of business first. Maybe this is not something that many developers are aware of, but its a conversation we should have if we want arcades on Springboard to be successful outside of the US and UK.
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