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🚨 Our March gaming monetization newsletter for studios is HERE! Highlights include: 👋 Google’s ‘meaningful reset’ says goodbye to 30% mobile fees ⛓️💥 How player relationship ownership is quietly changing in 2026 💰 Matthew Ball: Will D2C and alternative stores lower UA Costs? 🎮 Newzoo's surprising relationship between gametime and revenue 🚩 Naavik's UGC Report: discovery = monetization on Roblox 🗡️ Pearl Abyss sells 2 million copies of Crimson Desert in 5 day Read in full (and subscribe) 👇

We’re an extension of your studio. The team you never need to hire but you’ll love working alongside. Talk to us to see what industry-leading game monetization can do for you:  ✔️ 𝗣𝗖, 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 unlocking a 94% acceptance rates  ✔️ 𝗧𝗮𝘅 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 for 45K gaming businesses and counting  ✔️ 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 with 100% chargeback protection and no hidden fees  ✔️ 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 unlocking up to 25% community-driven purchases Let us focus on the payments so you can focus on your craft. 

Handling sales taxes in-house is costing you more than you know.  Every new product, every purchase from a new geo introduces operational drain and a new layer of responsibility away from game development:  • Staying on top of shifting regulations across markets  • Managing reporting, filing, and audit exposure  • Hiring finance folks with specialist expertise  • Pulling internal teams into decisions with data that changes across country, city, sometimes even street What starts as a finance function becomes cross-functional friction. The impact isn't cost. It's drag. So leading studios change where the responsibility sits. Not by managing tax more efficiently. But by removing it from their sphere of responsibility entirely. Because the best payment partners for studios don’t only scale gaming monetization. They absorb the entire transaction and operational burden, so studios can stay focused on building great player experiences. They operate quietly as 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 - 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼.  That’s what offloading tax complications actually means in payments.

The one unmissable event of GDC week is finally here with our third event of the week! We’re proud to sponsor the GDC Supper Club with Newzoo, Deconstructor of Fun, Morgan Stanley, and Heroic Labs. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 📅 Wednesday, March 11 🕕 6:00–10:00 PM 📍 25 Lusk, San Francisco One evening with real & candid conversations about what D2C will look like in 2026.

"If you build it, they will (play for years to) come.” Don’t miss Tebex & Overwolf, ReadyM, and Nodecraft for an evening celebrating the builders that develop communities and make games even better! 📅 Today (March 10th), 6–8 PM  📍 Modernist, 139 Steuart St, San Francisco 🍺 Food & drink on us Event is full but you can join the waitlist here → https://luma.com/fin0mrl2

Last week Google changed the D2C landscape overnight. Lower fees for IAP and through third-party vendors. What does this mean to you? Don't miss Tebex at Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 where we'll explore the bigger picture and underlying value of mobile games going D2C: 📅 Tebex session 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳-𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘋2𝘊 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 at 2:10PM 📅 Panel with Crackle Technologies, Beamable and Dimoso titled  𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦: 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘙𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 at 3:30PM Join our skilled panelists: moderated by Jacki Vause (Dimoso) Liam Wiltshire 🔜 GDC Wiltshire, Jaivir Nagi (Crackle), Jon Radoff 🔜 GDC (Beamable)

The era of "D2C to avoid the fee" is over. Google’s announcement of their new fee structure and changes the entire D2C calculation. Once they go live, even if you use third-party payments, developers are on the hook for around 15% in service fees in many cases. The only real difference is whether you also pay Google’s additional billing fee . And that's before any vendor fees. (and let's not even start with some of the hidden fees we've seen in the gaming payment niche.) Which means the value proposition of implementing "D2C for cheaper payments" gets much weaker. My response? Good. The strongest reason for D2C was never the fee savings. The benefits around building and owning the relationship with your players, player-first D2C building long term recurring revenue, payments as a growth lever are the real reason to do D2C. Your webstore is the step in having a strong, direct relationship with your players. Google's shift not only historically changed the economics of mobile games, it forced the spotlight on where the true, hidden value of D2C really lies.

🚨 Our February gaming monetization newsletter for studios & publishers is HERE! Highlights include: 💡 Matthew Ball’s on the Impact of Mobile D2C Scaling 🍽️ GDC Supper Club: The Unmissable GDC Event (We’re biased) 🌉 Tebex Kicks Off San Fran Week with PocketGamer Track ❓ Naavik: Do ‘Fair Gacha’ Games Work from a Financial Angle? 🌍 How Europe Is Challenging Visa and Mastercard Highlights, analysis, and deep dives from Matthew Ball ,Naavik, #Wero PocketGamer.biz, and more. Access it here (and subscribe) 👇

We've been building something for a while. On March 10th at GDC Festival of Gaming, we're finally letting it out of the room. If you're heading there and you run a community server like Hypixel Inc, a multiplayer mod like CFX.re, or you're building in the UGC space (whether it is Minecraft, FiveM, GMod, Ark or anything else)... ReadyM is hosting an important meetup at Modernist in San Francisco - co-hosted with Overwolf/Tebex and Nodecraft - for the people who actually run the internet's most interesting gaming communities. Server owners. Multiplayer modding teams. UGC Operators & builders. No keynotes. Just an open bar and about 40+ people who speak the same language - and a reveal we've been sitting on for months. 📅 March 10th, 6–8 PM 📍 Modernist, 139 Steuart St, San Francisco Spots are limited and subject to approval. RSVP here → https://luma.com/fin0mrl2

Bringing the UGC folk together at GDC. Join Tebex, ReadyM, and Nodecraft for an evening focused on private game server owners, multiplayer modding teams, UGC Operators, and every type of builder who uses their passion to develop communities and make games even better. 📅 March 10th, 6–8 PM 📍 Modernist, 139 Steuart St, San Francisco 🍺 Food & drink on us 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘭. RSVP here → https://luma.com/fin0mrl2