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Acquiring valuable customers - A Guild Wars 2 Case Study

Jul 06, 2015

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Steve Fowler

The deck I presented at the Game Analytic's conference. This deck covers the optimization of our acquisition marketing programs the team has worked on since launch.
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Acquiring Valuable Customers

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Acquiring Valuable Customers

• Launched August 2012

• Metacritic score over 90%

• Faster to 3.5 million copies sold than any other MMORPG in history

• Pre-Sold 1 million copies

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PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS

Acquiring Valuable Customers

Launch Window Performance

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• We regrouped from Mar 2013 to Aug 2013 building a test plan

• Every spike was associated with a heavy up paid media spend

• Most spikes had a drop in price associated with them

• There seems to be no negative effect on retail when running 1st party sales

• Holiday gift giving still matters at retail

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Daily Activations and Estimated Client Revenue

Retail Sales (NA+EU) Digital Sales (NA+EU) Estimated Rev

Migration Sale

Free Trial only

Sale + Free Trial Sale Only

Humble Bundle Sale

2013 2nd Half Analysis

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1st Party Digital Daily Activations

First Party Digital Activations Paid Media Sales Paid Media CPA

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• The biggest question is how much it costs to create these spikes and can we predict cost with volume

• The first step is analyzing the relationship between our available paid media sources

• What is the ability of our “acquisition-based” spends (i.e. SEM/DSP) to offset the “impression-based” spends high CPA?

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Media Outlet Scorecards (FAKE DATA)

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April Acquisition Program (Case Study)• April sale objectives

– ESO defense– Feature pack boost– Active player base increase in Living World down time

• Used scorecard learning‘s to determine placement and spend– Heavy up video (from scorecard learning)– Heavy up on LTV positive media sources

• i.e. Curse

– Test Facebook as another acquisition channel

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April sale results

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• 107% over unit goal

• 36% over our stretch unit goal

• Sale campaign also drove lapsed player reactivations

• Facebook new “Offer Ad” has acquisition performance on par with SEM

• Video ads outperformed flash click through 2 to 1