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Super Mario Run |OT| Dash, Jump, Switch
- Thread starter maxcriden
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panama chief
Member
Welp. Bedtime then.
Glass Shark
Banned
Yeah, I'm betting this is going to be special and get a manual release. I would expect mid-morning tomorrow.
DecoReturns
Member
Wouldn't Apple notify you when its ready. I remember they added that feature just for Jumpman himself.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Thirst in Japan:
Glass Shark
Banned
That's too late. I'm expecting it to come out around the same time iOS releases usually come out, probably like 10AM PT.
Yeah but I'm not sure if they would notify the instant it was available. I thought this Notify function might have some delays....
panama chief
Member
Oh shit. Is that a Jikkyou Powerful Pro Futbol?
I wouldn't say zero but I'm sure by 9:41am PST it'll release.
Is 9:41am Mario time? Why did you pick that specific time?
dangerskew
Member
So is this going to be as big a launch as Pokemon GO? Really fascinated to see how this is received by the general public. It'll surely top the charts for weeks though.
GodfatherX
Member
Thread title change request: Wait, Dash, Jump, Switch
-Mutsukki-
Member
Yeah it is... huh. I'm curious now
Doubt it. The price is gonna turn some people off compared to when Pokemon Go was free and available on all platforms from
basically
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
I talked to my students today about the game, middle schoolers. They all said they were excited about it but it was really expensive for a phone game.
Lol I said, lets wait and see if the game is any good... Value is relative to quality.
Lol I said, lets wait and see if the game is any good... Value is relative to quality.
bodyboarder
Member
It's free to download and play though. Costs to unlock the extra content.
eyeball_kid
Member
So have you tested how strict the always-online restriction is? This is basically a make-or-break limitation for many people.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Not sure now if 24 levels for £10 is value for money if they are all as short as the one shown on the tonight show.
Agree, the general public probably doesn't know about it until they download or buy it.
I go through a bunch of tunnels on my way to work and lose cell reception. It's a pretty big make or break for me.
-Mutsukki-
Member
That's how pretty much every mobile game works nowadays though, I doubt it'll really break it for anyone
nikos
Member
It sort of is though. I've never complained about an always online console game, but it's a dealreaker for mobile games. I play mobile games during my commute, which takes place underground. I'll still buy this one, but I've abandoned countless mobile games because I wasn't able to play them during my commute.
No, it's not. Don't make shit up.
GodfatherX
Member
It's past midnight already in the eastern United States, 8 minutes until central time midnight, 2 more hours until western /pacific time midnight
Wait, wut? Please sthap.
-Mutsukki-
Member
Maybe I'm playing too much gacha but I'm definitely not making shit up, it's been my experience with pretty much every mobile game I download
wtf is this reaction
Laurel_McFang
Member
not out in my region yet then again neither is terra battle. thai store is still notify.
eyeball_kid
Member
Well, I'll say that many people will be affected by this limitation -- anyone who commutes via subway in most western cities, people in rural areas, people that have limited data plans, etc. I agree that most people don't know about the online requirement right now.
edit: they just talked about Super Mario Run on BBC 5 radio, and had Cara Ellison on (cool). No one mentioned it.
bodyboarder
Member
7 hours until the game has missed launch date in Australia
Yeah, was hoping we'd get it today.
-Mutsukki-
Member
Still, the bigger public is also used to being always online with games like Candy Crush and all. I also don't like being always online because 3G here in my country is terrible a lot of the time but I dunno if it's really that much of a deal breaker
Jon Carter
Member
If only Pokemon Go hadn't been online only, it could have been successful.
I've been wanting to say this for so long.
Gamers complain about weird stuff
Good post
Garrett Hawke
Member
You don't see how a game that is a one button runner doesn't have a real reason to be online only while a location based game does?
Like you don't see how they're completely different?
It would be like if you had to go outside every time you wanted to cook at home, even though you're not getting takeout.
I think their point was being always online isn't going to affect sales.
-Mutsukki-
Member
I think the angle here is that people don't really think about "oh this uses my location so it HAS to be online" they just play it. It doesn't matter that much. Candy Crush could also definitely be offline.
I feel like any time I look up any slightly notable ios platformer, Leps World 3 is right next to it in the search results lmao
ClayKavalier
Banned
People are mad about the always online thing because of the principle, right? Cant think of many times I don't have reception or WiFi that I'd want to play a game. It does suck for people playing on iPod Touches but I can't believe there's that many people in that situation.
Correct.
Pokemon GO required online and at its peak was the biggest mobile game anyone has ever seen. At it's height it had somewhere around 30,000,000 DAUs and made over $10,000,000 a day. It's also way more casual than Super Mario Run
10 out of the Top 10 Grossing games in the US require an internet connection in some form or another.
It's a non-issue to sales figures and user base and really any important metric imaginable for the title. However, it is a real issue to a small subset of users, which I understand, sucks for them.