The micropayments scene within the social gaming boom has been steadily growing and Offerpal Media has been one of the companies at the forefront, controversy and all. Today, Offerpal has taken another step to enhance its business by launching Offerpal Tasks, which leverages the Amazon Mechanical Turk.
This is a great way for younger players who don't have a credit card to earn virtual currency for their favorite games. This task system enables online gamers to select from thousands of ‘Human Intelligence Tasks,’ work on them whenever they want, and then convert their earnings into virtual currency that can be spent in online games and virtual worlds. Some tasks might include rating search results, categorizing web sites or articles, and answering questions.
“We’re pleased that Offerpal has chosen to leverage Amazon Mechanical Turk for their ‘Tasks’ service,” said Steve Rabuchin, General Manager for Amazon Web Services.
“The beauty of earning virtual currency through Amazon Mechanical Turk is that it’s very simple work that can be done anywhere at any time, and the payments can add up quickly,” said George Garrick, CEO of Offerpal Media. “We’re proud to leverage Amazon Mechanical Turk to bring social gamers yet another alternative payment method to go along with offers, surveys, shopping, videos and all our other options, while providing developers with another way to monetize larger portions of their audience.”
Offerpal Tasks are already available throughout Offerpal’s network of more than 2,000 web sites and applications.
