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The Jorts of Zeus posted:Did someone poo poo in your Wheaties? I probably shouldn't mention that the game is a few hundred MB... He's right. If you want to blow $16 on a game you first owned in the fourth grade go right ahead but don't get huffy about people not paying for masterpieces in the same breath.
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I find it silly to characterise pricing decisions as moral quandries. Companies price their products so as to maximise their profit, simple as that. If people are willing to pay or not, their balance sheet goes up, or not. A company choosing to price their flappy bird variant at One Million Dollars is making a suboptimal business decision, but all the huff and puff about it being morally *evil* is just naive. I assume the FF6 remake is being targetted at people who haven't played it before.
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I would expect the opposite. It would be interesting to see data regarding that.
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I want to give a heads up to Only One, an arena combat game with pixel graphics: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rebelbinary.onlyone It isn't much to look at but it's actually pretty fun and is quite challenging, and the iOS version has gotten some surprisingly glowing reviews.
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Are there any CCGs for android that you can get by without paying real money? Namely something you can actually utilize the currency you earn by playing the game to get more cards as opposed to that currency being absolutely useless and having the only way to get new cards be a paid currency(aka Order & Chaos Duels: Hey, here is absolutely useless gold that literally is not used for anything except providing a couple boosts in battles). I know that a F2P model is possible in a game like this(see: Hearthstone and, while it is not a ccg it has many things in common, Mass Effect 3 multiplayer), but I have yet to find an android ccg that doesn't use the tired "useless currency you earn and useful currency you have to pay money for) freemium, pay-to-win model.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Yea, my Moto X was not compatible at first. Sent them a message and it was fixed in a couple hours. I just got the response that they added my device to the compatibility list too! Took a little longer than a couple of hours, but still within a day so I'm pleased. Besides, I haven't beaten the Epilogue of the first game yet.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Are there any CCGs for android that you can get by without paying real money? Namely something you can actually utilize the currency you earn by playing the game to get more cards as opposed to that currency being absolutely useless and having the only way to get new cards be a paid currency(aka Order & Chaos Duels: Hey, here is absolutely useless gold that literally is not used for anything except providing a couple boosts in battles). I know that a F2P model is possible in a game like this(see: Hearthstone and, while it is not a ccg it has many things in common, Mass Effect 3 multiplayer), but I have yet to find an android ccg that doesn't use the tired "useless currency you earn and useful currency you have to pay money for) freemium, pay-to-win model. Well, Hearthstone itself is coming to Android eventually, so there's that. 
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Kyrosiris posted:Well, Hearthstone itself is coming to Android eventually, so there's that. Well, I'm set until M:tG joins in the fun. Was there a date announced at all?
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Mister Macys posted:Well, I'm set until M:tG joins in the fun. I don't think so, but I believe they inferred it'd maybe would be Q2? I'm not sure, though, been a while since Blizzcon.
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Has it been confirmed if it's coming to phones or just tablets? I'm having a tough time trying to imagine how you'd play any CCG on a 5 inch screen.
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Sab669 posted:Has it been confirmed if it's coming to phones or just tablets? I'm having a tough time trying to imagine how you'd play any CCG on a 5 inch screen. Just tablets. I can't imagine any ccg being playable on a phone.
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Alan_Shore posted:I know it's lame, but is anyone playing Dungeon Keeper? If there is, can we make a guild? I think it's quite fun, but I love DK, and I won't be spending any money on this. Suck it EA! I'd join a DK guild, sure, w/e. But I will also recommend going to GoG today and getting your free PC copy of it as well.
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Looks like Dungeon Keeper 2 is on sale for $1.50 as well.
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WebDO posted:I'd join a DK guild, sure, Likewise. Also not spending a dime on it.
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Mister Macys posted:Well, I'm set until M:tG joins in the fun. Duels of the Planeswalkers in on Android already, it's not too bad, but I don't like MTG all that much to begin with.
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Geektox posted:Duels of the Planeswalkers in on Android already, it's not too bad, but I don't like MTG all that much to begin with.
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mrkillboy posted:I want to give a heads up to Only One, an arena combat game with pixel graphics: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rebelbinary.onlyone Not compatible with my N5 apparently.
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coyo7e posted:Did they ever update it? I remember the controls being really fiddly or herky-jerky on my tablet, and combat selection was a real chore if I recall correctly. Apparently it doesn't support online multiplayer, which is pretty hilarious.
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Cerepol posted:Not compatible with my N5 apparently.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Are there any CCGs for android that you can get by without paying real money? Namely something you can actually utilize the currency you earn by playing the game to get more cards as opposed to that currency being absolutely useless and having the only way to get new cards be a paid currency(aka Order & Chaos Duels: Hey, here is absolutely useless gold that literally is not used for anything except providing a couple boosts in battles). I know that a F2P model is possible in a game like this(see: Hearthstone and, while it is not a ccg it has many things in common, Mass Effect 3 multiplayer), but I have yet to find an android ccg that doesn't use the tired "useless currency you earn and useful currency you have to pay money for) freemium, pay-to-win model. There's Tekken Card Tournament, I was playing that for a few months. It has a soft currency (gold) and a hard currency (credits). Credits are earned on level-up or sometimes as a post-match bonus and gold is earned after every match, win or lose. You can buy packs of random cards with credits, or you can purchase individual cards or upgrade existing cards with gold. It's not a typical resource-management CCG per se, it has more of a fighting pace to it.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Apparently it doesn't support online multiplayer, which is pretty hilarious. It does look like it has received some recent updates though, so it's probably not entirely unplayable.. Except for being unable to download it right now. 
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coyo7e posted:Well I went to reinstall it (Magic) to check if it's still as janky as I remember it being (I bought and played 3 or 4 of the DotP on XBox Live Arcade, this version is way worse and has a sketchy UI from what I recall,) but after an hour of 502 errors over and over, I gave up. I eventually uninstalled it since it would routinely hang up on updating and zap my battery.
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Geektox posted:Duels of the Planeswalkers in on Android already, it's not too bad, but I don't like MTG all that much to begin with. Which years? I think I have up to 2012 on the 360. Nevermind, just read Coyote's post.
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Once I got away from my work wifi I was able to DL it, I'm going to make a point to kick it around a bit this weekend because I do want to like it. 1.5 gig download, pretty sure that all the XBox versions combined aren't that big. 
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Can you share your dungeon keeper game across iOS and android like you can Clash of Clans?
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To anyone playing hay day, it looks like your diamonds can and will magically disappear.
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Has anyone played the Doodle God games? I picked up Doodle Kingdom yesterday and it seems like a really fun little timewaster. It was hard to figure out what the actual gameplay would be without getting the demo version, because it's so simple: you get a handful of elements to start with, and you need to figure out how to combine them to create more things. I'm not sure exactly why, but it's fun. Good sense of humor, too. And incredibly minor IAPs -- in Doodle Kingdom, the initial handful of gems you start with is enough to buy the upgrade that disables matches you've already made (so you don't waste time and get excited watching the animation when you're experimenting), and it seems like the only other thing you can buy are hints and temporary item borders, which are really just another version of hints. The hints recharge slowly, and honestly, you shouldn't be using them very often anyway, since the entire game is thinking about how to create things. It seems like they released a large update to the original Doodle God that makes it the definitive game to play, with the most elements and a lot of extra modes that give more direction to what you're doing, but Doodle Kingdom has some cool extras, too. The only thing is that, once I've completed all 3 quests and unlocked all the elements, I doubt there will be much replay value.
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If anyone here isn't sick of Scrabble clones and word games yet I suggest giving Word Puttz a look: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.jackboxgames.wordputtz Basically its a mix of Scrabble and minigolf, in that you need to make chains of words that connect to the hole in order to pass each level. It's actually pretty interesting.
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Full disclosure, I am one of the developers of the game I'm about to shamelessly promote. Pork Chop Hero: One pig's quest for freedom. Help Pork Chop escape the voracious Pork Enthusiasts on his journey to freedom.   Basically it's a top down shooter/puzzle game played using two virtual joysticks. You shoot the bad guys with bacon, as you shoot them they get fatter until they explode. (Later you get other weapons with different effects) There is a "Campaign Mode" with two worlds (and a third on the way). Each world has about 15 levels. There is also "Survival Mode" where endless waves of pork enthusiasts attack you and you see how many waves you can survive. There is currently only a single survival map (more on the way). World 1 of Campaign Mode (Bacon Acres) and Survival Mode are free to play. World 2 of Campaign Mode (Forest Hamlet) is $1.99 Website - http://www.porkchophero.com/ Promo/Gameplay Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUZB7ljI1A Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mycroft.porkchophero Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Mycroft-Softworks-Inc-Pork-Chop/dp/B00IB0F92K iOS - Waiting Approval Let me know what you think of the game or if you have any issues. If you enjoy the game please take a few seconds to rate it, it is hard to get a game exposure and ratings really help with visibility in the store.
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Why is Bookworm Adventures not on android? Or the original Bookworm game? They'd be perfect for the platform.
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TiCK posted:Why is Bookworm Adventures not on android? Or the original Bookworm game? They'd be perfect for the platform. PopCap's owned by EA now and they don't care about their old games unless it has Bejeweled, Peggle or Plants Vs Zombies in the title.
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Phenotype posted:Has anyone played the Doodle God games? I picked up Doodle Kingdom yesterday and it seems like a really fun little timewaster. It was hard to figure out what the actual gameplay would be without getting the demo version, because it's so simple: you get a handful of elements to start with, and you need to figure out how to combine them to create more things. I'm not sure exactly why, but it's fun. Good sense of humor, too. And incredibly minor IAPs -- in Doodle Kingdom, the initial handful of gems you start with is enough to buy the upgrade that disables matches you've already made (so you don't waste time and get excited watching the animation when you're experimenting), and it seems like the only other thing you can buy are hints and temporary item borders, which are really just another version of hints. The hints recharge slowly, and honestly, you shouldn't be using them very often anyway, since the entire game is thinking about how to create things. It seems like they released a large update to the original Doodle God that makes it the definitive game to play, with the most elements and a lot of extra modes that give more direction to what you're doing, but Doodle Kingdom has some cool extras, too. Sounds like an Alchemy clone, there's tons of 'em. You can go on forever!
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mrkillboy posted:PopCap's owned by EA now and they don't care about their old games unless it has Bejeweled, Peggle or Plants Vs Zombies in the title. You can't get Peggle on Android, either. baka kaba posted:Sounds like an Alchemy clone, there's tons of 'em. You can go on forever! I'd seen this comparison when reading reviews, but I'd never heard of or played Alchemy before. Alchemy itself seems a little bland, and I definitely prefer the theme and humor of Doodle Kingdom. I honestly didn't think it'd be my cup of tea, but for some reason I'm really enjoying it. It seems like a perfect cell phone game -- the mechanics (or lack thereof) means I can pick it up or put it down whenever I want. This was nice the other day when I was standing around a server closet waiting for a disk to format, and one of the client's people burst in to check on me. No worries about losing progress if I just pop my phone back into a pocket, and no awkward "Hang on, lemme finish this battle".
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Anybody like the online game genre of games like "toss the turtle", or the penguin one. The games where you shoot out some animal out of a cannon and try to get further and further, upgrading your equipment. Anyone knew of any good android equivalents? I have angry gran toss, and it's okay.
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Looks like new Flappy Bird clones with the word "flappy" in the name are being rejected by Google (and Apple) left and right: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/02/16/google-evidently-begins-rejecting-flappy-games-from-the-play-store-as-clones-continue-to-march-in/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/15/apple-google-begin-rejecting-games-with-flappy-in-the-title/ I like how that one guy tried to get a $50K grant for his clone. mrkillboy fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Feb 16, 2014 |
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I saw a few clones on the Amazon store, maybe they aren't caring as much. I wonder how many of the clones have ad/malware with them?
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Deep Winter posted:Anybody like the online game genre of games like "toss the turtle", or the penguin one. The games where you shoot out some animal out of a cannon and try to get further and further, upgrading your equipment. [url] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bored.berzerkball2[/url] I played this a long time ago. I like it.
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mrkillboy posted:Looks like new Flappy Bird clones with the word "flappy" in the name are being rejected by Google (and Apple) left and right: I really wish both companies were far more active in preventing their markets from being such complete garbage. quote:This is just not my loving week: Rejected. "We found your app name attempts to leverage a popular app." Which app? FB doesn't exist!?!?! loving ridiculous.
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Fallom posted:I really wish both companies were far more active in preventing their markets from being such complete garbage. X percent of an install/IAP/subscription for an extremely lovely game is still X percent of sweet sweet profit. v  vThere's no incentive at all to weeding out the garbage beyond "b-b-but ~principles~". What I wish for is something like Appbrain but relevant and functional (so, like it used to be, basically). Active curation would be a plus, but probably impossible for anyone but an Elder Sperglord with a low-effort desk job.
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