Sina.com reported that some mobile game companies in China “purchase” high-ranking positions in top game lists in app stores. Niko has heard that games many game developers engage in this practice of paying the app stores for rankings, even those games that could have naturally ascended to the top rank. However, we admit we have no solid proof of this directly.
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