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iOS Gaming April 2017 | Canceled due to backlog
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Decided to bite as well.
I don't know where else to ask, but I have a question about something I don't understand in Card Thief.
I just unlocked the daily missions and I have access to a bunch of skill cards during these that I've never used before. For some reason though, it seems to disable or enable use of these randomly. I don't understand why at times I can use a card, and other times I cannot. Can anyone help? Is it because I don't have enough stealth points, or I need to disable a light source, or an enemy is looking in my direction?
Other than that, I'm trying to find another addicting game with daily login objectives and events. I used to play Final Fantasy Brave Exvius but got frustrated by the RNG on pulls and didn't fancy spending a lot of money and possibly get nothing useful. Anyone know of a similar game with less reliance on RNG/spending money?
I just unlocked the daily missions and I have access to a bunch of skill cards during these that I've never used before. For some reason though, it seems to disable or enable use of these randomly. I don't understand why at times I can use a card, and other times I cannot. Can anyone help? Is it because I don't have enough stealth points, or I need to disable a light source, or an enemy is looking in my direction?
Other than that, I'm trying to find another addicting game with daily login objectives and events. I used to play Final Fantasy Brave Exvius but got frustrated by the RNG on pulls and didn't fancy spending a lot of money and possibly get nothing useful. Anyone know of a similar game with less reliance on RNG/spending money?
Saucycarpdog
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You can use skill cards by the amount of stealth points you have and whether the stealth level of the card is equal to or greater than the target card's value. Example: you can't use a level two water arrow on a torch guard that's level 3.
Makes a lot of sense, thank you!
No problem! I also recommend its other inspiration, Rune Stone Keeper. I also find it better than Dungelot and it's very challenging. I can go 40-50 floors in endless mode pretty easily in Gumballs & Dungeons. If I get to floor 20 in Rune Stone Keeper I had a good run. Playing above Normal is truly difficult.
They are all a variation on Google Cardboard, they're all novelty toys. They don't approach Gear VR.
Yeah, it's a real hidden gem! It took over my life for several weeks when I picked it up last year.
Tell me what you think, especially how it compares to the other two games.
Stormwatch
Member
Wow, 10 minutes of Robot Unicorn Attack 3 blew through 50% of my iPhone 6S battery. That is just crazy!
PittaGAF
Member
That's weird.
Magic Duels drain battery is almost negligible on my iPhone 6S or at least on par with other games.
Matt Frost
Member
Penarium, while it wont replace Super Crate Box, is very entertaining. After a few tutorial levels it starts to show some dynamic events on the levels that makes them very entertaining. Like suddenly water starts to rise or boxes start to fly while you evade all those traps. Making it a fun mayhem to overcome. Controls perfecly, but you can adjust them in setting if you want. Full GameCenter integration. Also has an endless mode. Recommended for those who like this genre without doubt.
Matt Frost
Member
Death Road To Canada is so damn neat. Wow! Management + loot + zombie hordes + loads of action makes this game very enjoyable. And the roguelike part means it has a ton of logevity. Outstanding!
PittaGAF
Member
I downloaded it again now to take a screenshot of the battery usage but it's not listed under there for some reason. I played one tutorial (10-15 mins?) and lost 24% battery life.
Oh don't get me wrong. I totally believe you but it's really weird. At that rate you would deplete a full battery in less than 1 hour, which is insane.
I can play literally for hours (I think I played almost 4-5 hours straight some weeks ago when sick before seeing the first low batter warning).
I was just looking through my old AppShopper wish list that I hadn't touched in years. So much of it has had sales over the years and I've purchased and played most of what I had on the list.
What caught my eye was an app called Labyrinth 2 HD that I never bought by a company called Illusion Labs. It's still priced the same as it was 7 years ago and it was overpriced then which means it is way overpriced now. They haven't forgotten about it either as it got an iOS 10 update recently.
Just got me thinking how much money they have missed out on by keeping their price high. It looks interesting but it's nothing special. Something worth picking up for a buck or two though.
What caught my eye was an app called Labyrinth 2 HD that I never bought by a company called Illusion Labs. It's still priced the same as it was 7 years ago and it was overpriced then which means it is way overpriced now. They haven't forgotten about it either as it got an iOS 10 update recently.
Just got me thinking how much money they have missed out on by keeping their price high. It looks interesting but it's nothing special. Something worth picking up for a buck or two though.
I thought Carcassonne was always $4.99? It is on Android.
I really want it but I hate those kinds of on-screen controls on my iPad and I don't have a MFi controller...
Looks really fun, though!
The digital adaptation of the board game Tokaido is on sale for $3.99, normally $6.99.
That's a 43% discount after just 5 weeks on the App Store. This trend is becoming too common, some games are going on sale within two weeks of release! This is a self-perpetuating cycle where people wait to buy a game knowing it will go on sale quickly and games go on sale quickly because nobody's buying them.
The iOS version was made by another developer and is way more polished to justify the 9.99 price tag. It is not compatible with the other versions unfortunately.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I randomly found this platformer rpg called Goblin Sword that came out years ago, and holy crap does it look well done. Anyone here played it?
It's really good - a lot of people point to it as an example of an iOS game done well.
Saucycarpdog
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Golden standard of platformer on mobile done right, in my opinion.
infiniteloop
Member
Damn field runners got an update for 64 bit support after 4 years.
More_Badass
Member
Last call for May title
Grim Patron
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"I got 99 problems but 32 bit aint one"
replace problems with games if you want.
This is what I suggested on the previous page.
I wouldn't say it is becoming common. It has pretty much been a developer strategy for 4 or 5 years now.
Premium games are unfortunately usually pretty boom or bust. If a premium game is getting featured it can be riding pretty high, but without featuring or when featuring switches off, the dropoff in sales is massive.
Discounting aggressively is a pretty desperate move in order to maintain ranks, visibility, momentum, revenue, word of mouth etc. While it may train some users, I think a large part of the market probably doesn't wait for discounts. I don't think the practice is training people in the same way that Steam has trained their users around sales. But its becoming less effective as losing visibility and momentum happens faster than ever before. By the time you have reacted with a discount, it's probably already too late.
Weirdly perhaps, discounting was used when you were featured rather than when you weren't back in the day. When featured, discounting was used to drop reduce the barrier to entry and get more users into the game to both drive revenue and build a critical mass community and word of mouth. When you weren't featured, you wanted to maximize the value of your organic sales and maintained the higher price point. Pretty much the opposite of how it is used now.
More_Badass
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Thread will definitely go up tomorrow. Been a bit busy the last few days
Ffs Apple raised prices in the app store over night in Germany. 2.29 instead 1.99 and 3.49 instead 2.99 and so on. That's quite a margin... Definitely turned off to buy a lot more now.
Apparently there not not only increased prices but also decreased ones because they introduced new price tires like 0.49 or 1.09 for example. However most 99 cents apps are 1.09 now.
Apparently there not not only increased prices but also decreased ones because they introduced new price tires like 0.49 or 1.09 for example. However most 99 cents apps are 1.09 now.
More_Badass
Member
The dev of the really cool Last Horizon has a current Kickstarter for his next game, an even cooler looking dual stick shooter with an ARPG mentality customizing your ship
Nova Drift
Dev says the current focus is on PC, but it probably is also coming to iOS/Android
Nova Drift
Dev says the current focus is on PC, but it probably is also coming to iOS/Android
I'm not seeing any new tier for Europe:
https://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2017/04/euroappstorepricing-800x548.jpg
Matt Frost
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I was looking at the Spanish appstore prices too and wondering what happened. Prices now are 1.09, 2.29 and so on. Damn. Without any notice. Glad i bought DRtC and a couple of other before this.
It was mentioned last week and reported on. The press release mentioned that it would take full effect this week.
I do:
I'd guess that the new prices are not yet applied to all apps thus there still are 99 cents apps. However that does not explain cheap 49 cent apps... Seem to be mostly older and really small games like Doodle jump.
Didn't read anything about it unfortunately though 😐
Weird of Apple not to include it in its official press release but that's at least something. What's weird is that $0.99 apps are now cheaper if the dev use this tier while everything above it is more expensive.
I just took a look at iTunes Connect.
Looks like Apple has modified the "Alternate Tier A" and "Alternate Tier B" pricing to accommodate changes in Europe. These were previously used for price sensitive markets like Turkey, China, and Mexico, so an app would be 99c in US etc but around the equivalent of 25c in these other markets.
Looks like "A" now sets countries in Europe to 0.49 EURO, and "B" sets it to 0.99 EURO.
infiniteloop
Member
new Euro options:
Saucycarpdog
Member
thanks. I forgot to mention that I'm playing on an iPhone 6s Plus .. my iPad 2 is too old for that stuff. And the plus-size is really great for gaming.
More_Badass
Member
May thread is up, just need to add thread impressions later
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1367800
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1367800