The VMK Pay to Play Numbers

[jjramsey]

The numbers of subscriptions just don't begin to show the VMK potential when it comes to income. People making extra trips to the parks for Quest Items. Buying merchandise for special VMK items. The Movie Rewards program has people buying Disney DVDs. The VMK pins sold out the first day they hit the parks. I bought a Herbie DVD and can't stand the movie.
Now add to that the people who stayed at a Disneyland Hotel for Stitch items. We are talking big money here.

I would not be surprised if the 'crossover income were equivalent to way over 100% what they would take in for game fees! At least in our family, we made special plans to get a couple of trips in, not only because we like the parks, but to do all the quests. The trips were timed so that the minimum time between the trips would not interfer with quest collection. Then we bought a pile of the pirate pins with codes...and about three times the normal number of movies...to get the inferno...

[chrisb26]

This is exactly what I don't understand with them. I look at it like this.

Disney is going to spend all that money on making new games like Cars and Fairies online worlds. When they have a game already established (VMK) which with a few touch ups maybe a couple mini games and a few others could be a really amazing game.

Also the money they could make from VMK could be endless. Charging players is just the start. Since VMK is based around the parks they could profit so much off of that. Sell things in the parks that have to do with the items rides and have it turned into virtual items for the game. Sell trading cards for items in the parks. Continue with the pin thing they have now only expand it they could make pins that have to do with Haunted Mansion and sell those with the cards. The Disney Movie Rewards are even better it would cost them nothing since its a virtual item. They just have to put it up and watch as tons of people buy movies just to get a virtual item.

That is what I don't understand with so much possibilities you'd think they would want to do this.