The Mistress
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"Please crush me with your heels Esdeath-sama!
Indiana Solo
I don't even know who that is, but the genre sounds like a relatively bare-bones "Life Sim" type game where you're a celebrity.
I did find this tidbit interesting though:
Not sure what they can do alleviate this to be honest. Part of the problem may be because many people see paying for things in a mobile game as scams.
edited 31st Jul '14 8:29:19 AM by Customer
Main Character
Well, they aren't exactly wrong.
Especially when it's for stupid stuff like clothing or (like Dungeon Master) mining.
edited 31st Jul '14 9:30:42 AM by theLibrarian
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Well yeah, of course they aren't wrong, it's just that the system needs to be changed so that people don't feel that way.
The amount of mobile games that abuse the Allegedly Free Game trope need to be taken care of too, since that's part of the problem. There's no real consistency between the games that provide "reasonable" bonuses for extra money and the ones that outright want you to pay out the ass for some of the stuff you would need to finish or make any sort of progress in them.
edited 31st Jul '14 9:44:22 AM by Customer
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Couldn't they just make games that just have a flat fee and then you can play as much as you like without paying any more?
You know, like how most actual games work?
Anyone who assigns themselves loads of character tropes is someone to be worried about.
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Ugh seriously? Words can not describe my disdain for the fact that there would be that many people buying that...
Hi
If you want to discuss the merits/implications/economic factors/etc. of the genre, make a general thread for it. Locking this one for being too much of a complaint thread.
edited 1st Aug '14 6:27:44 AM by Willbyr
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/30/technology/kardashian-app-game/index.html?iid=HP_LN&hpt=hp_t2
"If sales continue at their current rate, the game will gross $200 million in its first year, according to Doug Creutz, an analyst at Cowen and Company. That would put "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" in the big leagues with smash-hit mobile games such as Candy Crush.
Creutz estimates there are only about seven other apps in the world that are pulling in more money right now. And Kardashian's is one of the top five most downloaded apps in Apple's store. "I don't even know what genre to call it, but people are taken with it," he said."
Discuss.