R.I.P. Free Booster Videos

[Morgan O'Bree]

Sorry, this is news to me...they fixed it???

Since last season. Actually for a couple of days if the keeper injured you took like 4 goals in 4 minutes until sub, then i guess they recoded that too.

[July Fourth]

It's now been a whole WEEK since the booster buttons were removed.

[reddeviljohn]

It's now been a whole WEEK since the booster buttons were removed.

It was 12 hrs since the last post b4 u posted that!

[July Fourth]

It was 12 hrs since the last post b4 u posted that!

There is still a long way to go yet.

[reddeviljohn]

There is still a long way to go yet.

I've got a feeling, if they do reintroduce it, it won't be for a very very long time!

[July Fourth]

I've got a feeling, if they do reintroduce it, it won't be for a very very long time!

That's what I'm thinking, they are probably waiting to see what effect it has on the game token buying wise.

[reddeviljohn]

That's what I'm thinking, they are probably waiting to see what effect it has on the game token buying wise.

I wasted a ton on those 2 cup finals and it did not help the result at all!

[rdsouza]

100% true.

I hardly think that they make the majority of their money on videos anyways. Maybe 5-10% tops. Of course, should that income stream disappear, they have to have other ways to make up for it (increasing injuries always does the trick methinks!)

Still, you factor in all the free boosters and they might even lose money on the videos --> People get tons of free boosters = People dont buy enough boosters = they dont waste enough tokens = they dont spend enough money.

If I were Nordeus, and if I could survive without the revenue stream of the booster vids, I would just not bring them back. If I did, it would be programmed to only view once per account, per day, regardless of your browser.

If I may .... a quick search will show that Nordeus would have an annual turnover of over 1B Euro (based on 2011 when they signed with BWin and reportedly had a proforma revenue of 800M Euro with an EBITDA of 200MEuro...very healthy!). Also reportedly, anywhere between 2M to 5M monthly (active) users on T11. Even at half the low watermark - at 1M users buying an average of $25/- tokens per month... on the very low side - thats a revenue stream of 300M$?!? If those rather conservative 1M users click an average of 2 vids / day - thats 60M clicks a month & 720M clicks a year ... at 1cent a click (fair?).. thats only 7.2M$. The rest presumably comes from grants, advertising, branding etc ...

Now,
If I were Nordeus management :-) and were willing to trade off 50% of "click-revenue" for a 5% increase in token revenue... wouldnt need to go to any business school to figure that out...

[July Fourth]

I wasted a ton on those 2 cup finals and it did not help the result at all!

£100?

[reddeviljohn]

£100?

No, I just meant I had used a lot what I had already saved up, no actual money has changed hands yet.