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Shalinor posted:Eventually, they'll burn their good will, the value of the company will be exhausted, and the directors of the mobile division will deploy their golden parachutes whilst the whole thing comes crashing down. Maybe they will be forced to release 6 then?
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quote:All Playdek Inc. games and IAP are on sale for 0.99 this weekend. I highly recommend everyone get Ascension and Summoner Wars. I picked up Penny Arcade just in time for some weekend traveling.
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Bottom Liner posted:I highly recommend everyone get Ascension and Summoner Wars. I picked up Penny Arcade just in time for some weekend traveling. The "Everything" Bundle in Summoner Wars is only a buck too - and it DOES give you every other purchase in the store. I don't even play this game very often! Somebody help me, I may have an App Store addiction 
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Jan 18, 2013 06:00
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Thirst Mutilator posted:The "Everything" Bundle in Summoner Wars is only a buck too Its $8.
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Jan 18, 2013 06:15
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Kekekela posted:Its $8. All Playdek stuff is on sale for .99. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/summoner-wars/id493752948?mt=8 quote:Everything Bundle 1$0.99
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Jan 18, 2013 06:37
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Thanks for the heads up on this sale! Now what exactly are these "promo cards" in Ascension?
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Jan 18, 2013 06:54
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Extra little packs with cards you can't get in any of the expansions. They're pretty fun, and since you're saving a few bucks from the sell you should get it if you like the game 
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Jan 18, 2013 06:55
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Thirst Mutilator posted:The "Everything" Bundle in Summoner Wars is only a buck too - and it DOES give you every other purchase in the store. I don't even play this game very often! I didn't care for it when I first tried it, but for a buck I'll give it another shot just because I like Ascension so much. So far my list is Summoner Wars everything bundle, Penny Arcade and the Ascension Promo Pack. Is the Nightfall expansion worth getting? I've had the core game in my backlog for ages.
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Minidust posted:Thanks for the heads up on this sale! Now what exactly are these "promo cards" in Ascension? A few extra cards that you should get just because there's no chat and it's annoying having to recreate the game when the person you challenge doesn't have the expansion, even if that mother fucker Pathwarden occasionally ruins the loving games. PATHWARDEN 
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I don't remember seeing any, so does anybody have any opinions of Real Boxing? Worth the $4.99? Im looking for a Fight Night on ios game, which I totally would think would be worth it.
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Jan 18, 2013 07:49
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Shalinor posted:Eventually, they'll burn their good will, the value of the company will be exhausted, and the directors of the mobile division will deploy their golden parachutes whilst the whole thing comes crashing down. Other than this game I don't really think the problem with their stuff is quality though, is it? People complain about price but most of their games on the App Store are pretty good, especially relative to everything else on the platform. Some control issues aside (but again, the ones I've played control better than many native iOS games. And as long as they are making money I think the complaints about price don't matter. Even with ATB, I think the biggest thing that bums people out (again, price excluded) is the missed potential. It's not like its the first low-to-no gameplay game on the store, and people haven't poo poo on those as hard as they are with this.
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loudog999 posted:I don't remember seeing any, so does anybody have any opinions of Real Boxing? Worth the $4.99? Im looking for a Fight Night on ios game, which I totally would think would be worth it. Well, Fight Night IS on iOS and it isn't half bad. I'm not a huge fan of the tilt to move it has going on, but it's a drat find time waster.
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Bottom Liner posted:All Playdek stuff is on sale for .99. Holy gently caress! I'm glad I hesitated on Summoner Wars. I'm buying every single one of Playdek's anythings.
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Bottom Liner posted:All Playdek stuff is on sale for .99. What's the word on Nightfall? I have Penny Arcade, Ascension, and Summoner Wars already and love them all, should I give this a shot as well?
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omg chael crash posted:Well, Fight Night IS on iOS and it isn't half bad. I'm not a huge fan of the tilt to move it has going on, but it's a drat find time waster. Guess I will check it out instead. Thanks
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omg chael crash posted:What's the word on Nightfall? I have Penny Arcade, Ascension, and Summoner Wars already and love them all, should I give this a shot as well? Yeah, if you like that style of game, Nightfall is certainly worth picking up, especially when it's on super-sale.
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Wait, so for the Ascension promo pack cards, do all players need to get them to use them like the 2 expansions? I need this information for my friends because I already bought the pack on impulse anyway. Also, is the Nightfall expansion worthwhile? I did try Fluxx a little bit earlier, seems okay, though the animations are kinda stuttery and slow. I've played a lot of Food Fight already; it's decent, though I don't think it's at the level of Ascension and I'm not sure how appropriate the pace of the game would be for async play.
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Yeah, you can only play in games with people who own the same sets as you do for Ascension. So if you own all of them, you can join any game, but your friends will be restricted to games using sets they own.
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Jan 18, 2013 09:33
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Are there any good Qix style games? I'm in the mood
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Bottom Liner posted:All Playdek stuff is on sale for .99. Weird, guess it just wasn't updating for me.
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Det_no posted:Holy gently caress! I'm glad I hesitated on Summoner Wars. I'm buying every single one of Playdek's anythings. Goddammit, I literally bought the Summoner Wars bundle for the $8 like two days ago.
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Chuck Bartowski posted:Are there any good Qix style games? I'm in the mood There's a game who's name I can't for the life of remember. Came out around 2009. Something like Dr Awesome, but it used the Qix gameplay mechanic to cure people of disease by cutting out germs. There was a cheesy storyline to go with it as well. I'm sure someone can name it.
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Roly Poly Putt went free. And I'm still on the first part of Rio, too. Sorry, productivity 
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Any Beastie Bay advice from the more addicted out there? I wandered the net awhile but for once a decent guide doesn't seem to be out there or pretty well hidden if it is. It appears there is the typically kairosoft type of building placement mechanics on top of the collecting and tweaking your monster team.
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Has there been any talk about Rails yet? Apparently it's a remake of Shortline Railroad, but I'm not familiar with that one.
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Is the Penny Arcade card game any good? And where is the Nightfall expansion? I don't see an IAP menu, in game, and it doesn't appear to exist as a separate app in the App Store
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Shalinor posted:Eventually, they'll burn their good will, the value of the company will be exhausted, and the directors of the mobile division will deploy their golden parachutes whilst the whole thing comes crashing down. I'm not sure this is really the case, unfortunately--this kind of monetizing seems fairly endemic to the Japanese iOS market. Sorcerian for iOS is another good example--the thing costs an exorbitant 2500 yen ($30 in the US app store) and you'd have to shell out at least half that in addition in IAP to get your character roster/item storage up to par with the PC version. And each fool-proof resurrection costs money too. (There's a chance of permanently losing characters in normal resurrection attempts). A lot of other Japanese iOS games I've seen have similar pricing schemes too. Maybe Japanese consumers are less annoyed being nickle-and-dimed for everything. Though ATB is still pretty egregious even by those standards.
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Shalinor posted:Eventually, they'll burn their good will, the value of the company will be exhausted, and the directors of the mobile division will deploy their golden parachutes whilst the whole thing comes crashing down. Genpei Turtle pretty much nailed it, but I think it's more the way the mobile market is going. Companies are releasing games for free now, in the hopes they make their money in IAP. Some companies do it really well, and others don't. In Square's case, I think they believed they could release something like this and get away with it, because that's how the mobile market works. They just went a little bit to far on the "monetize everything" side of things. The sad thing is, in the end this game will still probably make a ton of money for Square, regardless of the reviews. I'm sure they know this. Remember, it's not the people who spend a buck here and there who are their target market. It's the people who spend $50 at a time on IAP/fun bucks/I Win Buttons that make them the money.
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Gachapon is pretty popular in Japan (And apparently now in the US, too) but Square Enix's attempt at that was also pretty lovely. They pretty much made it so that playing and paying to win in Guardian Cross are both equally unrewarding and tedious. I don't know how you can gently caress up a Gachapon model that easily but they managed to do it. It's why Mobage is beating them pretty soundly with Marvel and Rage of Bahamut.
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Nickoten posted:(And apparently now in the US, too)
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This Final Fantasy IAP is like buying packs of trading cards. Where you spend a few dollars here and there and get random pieces of a set, all for a product that doesn't really DO anything per se. Are trading cards still a big thing in Japan?
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Jik Waffleson posted:Has there been any talk about Rails yet? Apparently it's a remake of Shortline Railroad, but I'm not familiar with that one.
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Nickoten posted:Gachapon is pretty popular in Japan (And apparently now in the US, too) but Square Enix's attempt at that was also pretty lovely. They pretty much made it so that playing and paying to win in Guardian Cross are both equally unrewarding and tedious. I don't know how you can gently caress up a Gachapon model that easily but they managed to do it. It's why Mobage is beating them pretty soundly with Marvel and Rage of Bahamut. Guardian Cross was actually pretty successful until it got hit with a series of hacks and exploits that made Diablo 2 Battle.net seem secure. Tough to keep people dumping hundreds/thousands of dollars into tickets hoping for a rare card when dupers are offering copies for $10 each. It's a lot worse than that summary, but once a "collectible" game loses the illusion of integrity like that it's impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.
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Minidust posted:This Final Fantasy IAP is like buying packs of trading cards. Where you spend a few dollars here and there and get random pieces of a set, all for a product that doesn't really DO anything per se. Are trading cards still a big thing in Japan? Buying IAP with random results (like packs of trading cards) was huge in Japan, but supposedly a new law has banned it (or severely restricted it), impacting a lot of the big publishers.
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Zwilnik posted:Buying IAP with random results (like packs of trading cards) was huge in Japan, but supposedly a new law has banned it (or severely restricted it), impacting a lot of the big publishers. I wonder where the line is drawn then, and I find it pretty telling about the Japanese gaming community/culture that the government needed to legislate that
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Thirst Mutilator posted:I wonder where the line is drawn then, and I find it pretty telling about the Japanese gaming community/culture that the government needed to legislate that The specific ban mandates that slot-machine mechanics need to disclose the specific percentage drop rates and not just be like "Hey, you have a chance to win the SUPER RARE thing!!!". Now it says "You have a 0.001% chance to win the SUPER RARE thing!!!" Though DeNA's stock price is UP since the ban was announced late last spring and went into effect in September.
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Are there any of the Playdek games that are actually good/fun in single-player mode? I don't think I'd play multi-player very often, if at all, so I'm hesitant, even at 99 cents. Does any particular title stand out, from an AI point of view?
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Invisble Manuel posted:Are there any of the Playdek games that are actually good/fun in single-player mode? I don't think I'd play multi-player very often, if at all, so I'm hesitant, even at 99 cents. Does any particular title stand out, from an AI point of view? Ascension is fun single-player. Summoner Wars and Penny Arcade less so.
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