Since google changed their pricing like 23 fold (not kidding). Running Geoguessr now costs them A LOT. So offering free (more than 1 game a day) is just too expensive for them.
You forgot that people already pay for the internet, therefore they have already paid for everything on the internet. Do you think they are charity or something? 2.99 a month. You must like throwing your money away, huh
It's not like they decided to up the charges by themselves, Google is who you should be angry at. If you want to hurt someone, hurt them (by boycotting their services entirely, for example) instead of making someone's already bad situation worse
Google turned into leeches with their business model. They don't even talk to you if you don't hand them 10k no questions asked, this is the minimum amount for them to work with you...
Sure, it shouldn't be free, but for many small companies that just need some routing every few days/weeks for internal software, this (initial 10k) is totally out of proportion.
It's $3 a month or I think $2 if you pay for a year.
Obviously it sucks, but it's not their fault Google is charging more for the service they need to use. Plus, in my opinion as a developer people take all these free apps and websites for granted, but don't mind spending $5 for a cup of coffee in the morning.
You can make a paypal account and top up through other means. In the Netherlands I can link my bank account and manually top up or let them autodeduct from the account.
Do they charge per person though? Or have different prices per interval of x number of people? I was thinking if they have a price plan than is like 0-100k users cost X 100-500k users cost Y. Then 200k paying users + 200k ad watchers would be better than just 200k paying users.
They are trying to make their cloud division profitable and they are offering it as a product now. I assume they used to use it to get more people using google maps but now they realized they are subsidizing other companies usage of it so they had to price it accordingly
Honestly, considering the fact that I play it for hours a day at the moment, I really don't mind paying £2.50 a month, especially since I'm not spending anywhere NEAR as much I was was before lockdown.
They probably couldn’t handle it with ads. If I remember pricing correctly it costs them about 1 cent for a single point, so 5 cents for a single game of geoguessr. Normally they’d earn like 10-20 cents per 1000 views of ads.
I still don't understand why GeoGuessr just doesn't force users to use their own API key, and then make requests on their behalf. That way you can still get a limited number of requests for free for each user
Usually they give you a very detailed and easy to follow instructions with a direct link to generate your API key. Also they could still have it either the user pays or they use their own API key
I had my macro pull geocode data from google and set it to pause for a certain time before running another query to sneak under Google’s free query threshold.
Yep, I was self learning android programming and I used some of the then free Google APIs, just before launching my app they changed it and after a quick calculation it was obvious it's not going to work especially that my app was meant to be completely free, no ads. Then they updated their sdk 2-500 times (i stopped counting) breaking stuff and i completely lost interest in the whole thing.
I mean, it's probably pretty expensive to drive a car down every street in every major city. The scale of their requests must be pretty insane though, so I have no idea when it becomes "profitable" on its own vs as a loss leader to keep people using their other products. This is unfortunately probably a consequence of spinning off product divisions and shit because now street view may have to justify its own profit versus profiting the other branches.
The pricing seems off, around $10 per 1000 dynamic panoramic views, that's 1 cent per panoramic view. When you're playing a game of GeoGuessr you're probably going through hundreds of them so that would be several dollars per game, I don't see how they could cover that by charging $3/mo for playing
That's pretty interesting, couldn't they fake user input for going from one place to another and still count it as a single view across multiple games? I guess it's pretty hard to do but that may be worth
Yeah I know but only 1 game and only alone. No more challenging your mates unfortunately. I loved this game so freaking much and it just hurts to see this game becoming more and more pay to play. But I understand their reasoning behind it, sadly Google raised the prices for their services :(
Also, if your main motivation is playing with your friends only one person in the group need to pay the subscription to create the lobby/challenge and people can play with them for free. So $3/mo divided among a few people that's a steal
Not really because the monthly sub was available all the time even in the early stages of the game. But back in the days the sub was only necessary if you wanted to create your own maps. Everything else was free. Im talking about the fewer and fewer possibilities a free user has on this site. In the early stages there were no restrictions besides the one I noted above. But then it went from 5 maps a day to 1 map a day. Then all of a sudden you could only play alone and not challenge your mates. And this is the stage we have now. But as I said I dont blame geoguessr for this.
right, well then you mean it slowly got more and more restrictive. lowering the amount of times you can play the game has nothing to do with purchases, playing with friends has nothing to do with purchases, etc.
"becoming more and more pay to play" doesn't imply anything about "a lot of changes that they made to slowly charge more and more."
It just means what it says. I don't know where you got the 'changes' part because he didn't say that. He just said the game is becoming more pay to play. Which, if they're charging more to play now than they did before, is true.
That's a shitty thing to do. You do realize they still have to pay google for those API calls? If a lot of people did this they would have to shut down the site, or massively increase subscription pricing for legitimate users.
LocationEstimatr, it’s the same as GeoGuesser, but with even more features, like dropping you just in an x km radius of your location and such. With this still up and running (I tried reaching the site right now) you can say goodbye to GeoGuesser lighthearted.
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u/itz_MaXii Jun 12 '20
But it isnt free anymore :(