[2015-03-11] VentureBeat: Bitcoin’s next frontier: a reward for gamers

[pitham1]

Bitcoin’s next frontier: a reward for gamers

http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/11/bitcoins-next-frontier-a-reward-for-gamers/

A new game appeared recently in the App Store in which players earn Bitcoins just from playing well.

SaruTobi is a Super Mario-style game. It’s name is Japanese for “flying monkey,” and it not only managed to successfully gain Apple App Store approval but also found a unique way to introduce iOS gamers to Bitcoin.

Marrying gaming and Bitcoin together is a shrewd move by the developer, as gamers and owners of the cyptocurrency share a lot of similar demographics. Typical Bitcoin users being profiled as a tech-savvy male, 25 to 40, with above-average income, according to a report by Nicholas Colas, the chief market strategist for Convergex, last year.

[Snipe85]

This is a great move IMO. RPG games for example always have some kind of a currency and players have been trading these for real money for decades. It's so popular that some players just play the game to farm "gold" and sell it on ebay. Why not make it simple for them and allow to farm Bitcoin, that they can use to buy in game items, renew subscription or just send to their wallets?