Kobe Anomaly Meetup Q&A (September 17, 2023)
Q1. In order to continue providing Ingress as a service, I think it is necessary to increase revenue. What measures do you have?
(Brian) More agents should join CORE, which is a subscription service. I think profits will increase if we can provide what users want, so we want to be inspired by our users.
(Kawashima) John Hanke loves Ingress more than anyone else in the company, but in order to continue operating it, it is necessary to continue generating profits.
I think it is important to increase the number of users first. He has been having a lot of discussions about this.
We want to lower the barrier for new users to play.
It is also possible to reinstate the Recruiter Medal.
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Answer to that first question sigh. Is Brian paying attention to the forums at all? Does someone else at least give him reports?
Q1. In order to continue providing Ingress as a service, I think it is necessary to increase revenue. What measures do you have?
(Brian) More agents should join CORE, which is a subscription service. I think profits will increase if we can provide what users want, so we want to be inspired by our users.
(Kawashima) John Hanke loves Ingress more than anyone else in the company, but in order to continue operating it, it is necessary to continue generating profits.
I think it is important to increase the number of users first. He has been having a lot of discussions about this.
We want to lower the barrier for new users to play. <--- Is it not low enough yet?
It is also possible to reinstate the Recruiter Medal. <---- WHAT?
Q2. There are many agents who are participating for the first time due to this anomaly, but will it be possible to encourage new players to subscribe?
(Brian) Actually, there is data that shows that the number of subscription subscribers increases with each event. I believe that it requires an item frame or is recommended by a predecessor. <---Do they increase because agents want an extra 500 slots of inventory for the anomaly? Wonder what the actual retention for those agents who subscribe is past that initial month?
So if more users joins core there will be more events?
John Hanke loves Ingress more than anyone else in the company
Let's take a look at his last appearance on here:
May 2023
Awkward
At least it’s this year I guess?
Not seeing any advertising for Ingress in Monster Hunter. Missed opportunity.
Sign up for Ingress, get a monster hunter code. Subscribe to CORE, get a better code.
u dont see ads for ingress in any other games
Where’s my Aegis Shield and Machina Sword in Monster Hunter?
Seems soo simple, yet soo overlooked. I still want to find out Brian's big idea on how to grow the overall active user base.
Maybe finish the fitrep system will help?
Who knows as this point. All of my co-workers that I got to play over the past year, all quit when they realized that Ingress knows about the lagg issue but doesn't seem to want to or is able to fix it. They saw it as a **** sentence and saw no point in continuing. Those are folks that would spend money on items in the store. They buy for the other games they play. One is a Star Trek Timelines spender. He spends at least $200 a week on that game to get all the special cards and max them out.
Niantic needs to throw more global events so more people have a reason to spend money for cmu since thats what brian talks all time revenue increase but yet they fail to understand why the game isnt picking up lol