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[MooseMouse]

Does anybody have experience putting a game on BigPoint? On their website they say they have 150 million gamers, but I never hear much about them here in the US. I am interested in putting my game on their site, but integrating their API would be a lot of work.

[Chris Koźmik]

I have heard from others (not a rumour, more like from devs I know personally) that it's not worth it (not that many players at all). Also, I was contacting them and they don't seem to be so friendly to small devs. Overall, not terrible, but I would not bother.

[MooseMouse]

Thanks for the info. It is strange because BigPoint has had some great press in the gaming and internet industry blogs. Apparently they have tons of registered players, lots of investment money, and 800 employees in offices all over the world. But then, their developer success stories are kind of unimpressive. The first success story on their site has the following developer quote:

"we still hadn’t invested any money into any marketing, but we were still able to record over 2,000 new accounts in just a week-and-a-half. A large number of these accounts came through Bigpoint."

While 2000 new accounts is nice, it concerns me that this is the first (best?) success story from a site that boasts 150 million gamers. It just doesn't add up.

[Chris Koźmik]

2000 registers/week for a portal is *TERRIBLE*. Several year ago my game was getting like 180 registers/week per toplist (and I was listed on several toplists), so I was probably around 2k/week too (and I don't have 800 employees :D). Of course several years ago everything was much easier, so 2k/week now is very nice (still, not for a portal).

[bateleur]

The 150M figure is a bit misleading. BigPoint make their own games, some of which have a lot of registered players such as Battlestar Galactica Online. However, many of those players will literally never browse bigpoint.net looking for other games to try.

How many players use BigPoint as a general purpose games portal? I don't know, but very possibly far fewer.