Audited revenue sharing for Planet Calypso shows that the return to Calypso Land Deed holders totaled $708,573.00 for the period. This is equivalent to $11.81 per deed (60,000 deeds in total). Planet Calypso revenue share numbers have been audited by PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), Göteborg, Sweden. Continue reading...
The link contains a breakdown of the numbers: Interesting when comparing this with the results from our Wiki deed tracker: January shows 23.858 PEDs February shows 24.322 March: 17.436 April: 22.335 May: 18.609 June: 15.688 Total: 122.248 Differences might be due to the tracker working on weekly payout, rather than monthly. Doubling the numbers to come up with a projected yearly revenue would end up with a 24.4% return on investment. Also interesting to see is that a planet like Calypso would apparently pull in roughly 2.8 million USD per year.
There may well be a factor that the payouts are reducing the need to deposit so much. For me at least, that was the plan. ie Use my 2 deeds to "live off" so to speak and only deposit to buy goodies occasionally. Also, every time I turn my deed revenue into peds, I put the equivalent deposit into a RL savings account. This is to keep an idea of roughly how much I "make" off the deeds. This in turn earns me some meager RL interest haha. I think every year there will be the summer drop off anyhow and what not, coming back as the dark evenings kick in and folks feel more like games. There may be other factors nowadays too like the effect of tablets and phones etc on peoples gaming time. Another important factor this year is that "the big post summer update" that we always get has yet to materialise. I imagine this typically has the effect of kicking everyone back into playing in september. This year we are still waiting. Wistrel
other factors are that I think there are more and more free MMO's and cheap games now. Maybe they are not free to play long term or at higher levels but there are so many that we can jump from one to the other. Things like steam are bound to be having a factor. I think people are more aware noawdays of quite HOW many games there are out there to play... and they keep coming too... with more and more people playing games thanks to social netowkring and the like games are loosing that stigma of "nerd domain" It used to be that people who spent a long time on the net were "nerdy". That concept seems nuts today. Its more if you arnen't spending time on the net you are disadvantaged.
yup been checking out Star Wars, Star Trek, and Firefall got plenty of reasons to not log in to Entropia now.
