{"id":197,"date":"2007-02-02T04:34:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T08:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/selling-games-to-europe\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T04:34:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T08:34:33","slug":"selling-games-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/selling-games-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling games to europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on indiegamer forums the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/arcade.reflexive.com\/downloadgame.aspx?CID=20158&#038;AID=600\">Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa<\/a> asked about selling games in Europe, the european market, what are best sites, and so on. I want to share my experience since 40% of my sales are from Europe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>localization was useless. I did german one for my game UBM when was just released, so selling exceptionally well, but basically had NO IMPACT on sales. I still remember a german guy asking me how to play the game in english&#8230;! \ud83d\ude2e<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>direct bank transfer, BMT has this option. Had maybe 2-3 sales with that. Most people in europe have Paypal now. For example, Paypal in Italy grow up to 36% of e-commerce market (means that more than 1\/3 of italians use it to buy stuff online)<\/li>\n<li>what are the best sites? I&#8217;m a bit confused here \ud83d\ude42 internet is global, so I don&#8217;t see why someone in europe wouldn&#8217;t come to <strong>any<\/strong> site on internet to buy. They come to my site, and to the one of many other developers to buy.<\/li>\n<li>support: rarely you can get emails in french or spanish, but is like 1 out of 100 orders. Anyway not a problem.<\/li>\n<li>the best print media&#8230; well is a long list. The best ones are UK and German mags \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on indiegamer forums the author of Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa asked about selling games in Europe, the european market, what are best sites, and so on. I want to share my experience since 40% of my sales are from Europe: localization was useless. I did german one for my game UBM when was just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}