Refer to the How to contribute section for information on adding games to this article. Offer a complete list of games available for purchase on Steam which have external DRM associated with them in addition to or in lieu of the various forms of Steam's native DRM. So why maximizing revenue per player is important, it’s clear that a game doesn’t need a $3 or $4 ARPU to succeed. Team Fortress 2, which makes $4.36 per player, barely even makes the earnings chart. Many of these games aren’t even in the ARPU chart, which likely means that have a huge number of active users. Star Wars: The Old Republic: $139 million. Guild Wars 2: $3.88 (only considering its microtransactions and not its retail price)įor comparison, here is SuperData’s chart from earlier this year that shows the PC games that made the most from microtranscactions in 2013:. Here’s the full top 10 free-to-play games by ARPU: “That’s five times the audience but less than a third of the earnings per player,” van Dreunen wrote. At the same time, League of Legends, which has an ARPU of $1.32, has an MAU of 58.5 million. That means that developer isn’t necessarily choosing between targeting a hardcore gamer or a mass audience. While World of Tanks makes a lot from its players, it also has over 9.1 million monthly active users (MAU). Join gaming leaders live this October 25-26 in San Francisco to examine the next big opportunities within the gaming industry. For example, games with more players and a lower ARPU can still bring in more money, which is how League of Legends (ARPU $1.32) generates more revenue than its competitor Dota 2 (ARPU $1.54). It measures the health of a game that relies on microtransactions, but it doesn’t tell the full story. ARPU is an important factor in the multibillion dollar F2P game industry. That puts it ahead of games like online shooter Team Fortress 2 and online strategy game Dota 2 - at least in this one metric. Instead, the average player spends $4.51. Of course, World of Tanks fans aren’t dropping millions on their digital vehicles. The online multiplayer game, which has teams of players in tanks fighting against one another, has the highest average revenue per user (ARPU) out of any free-to-play PC games, according to a report form industry intelligence firm SuperData Research. Gamers in World of Tanks can sorta relate. The government may spend a close to $9 million on every M1 Abrams tank it buys. 
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