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[Nirolak]

On a sad note, on the US App Store: http://appshopper.com/bestsellers/gros/?device=ipad

iPad: #77 and rising in Top Grossing.
iPhone: #139 and rising in Top Grossing.

 

[Caronte]

EA gonna EA. No surprises here.

 

[epmode]

http://www.pockettactics.com/

Thanks, I'll take a look.

 

[Atrophis]

Metro (aka game central aka digitiser) gave it 0/10

Wait Metro are the Digitiser guys? How did I not know this?

 

[Fox Mulder]

EA acts really strange sometimes... even early Zynga Facebook games weren't so agressive and in-your-face with the micro-transactions. And imo it's established that currently you can get the best results by making the players (more or less) think that all these purchases are optional and non-agressive.

Who knows how deep you can fuck consumers until you try. EA has been trying a number of business models.

 

[The Boat]

I fear for this industry's future when I see games like this.

 

[CheDominik]

On a sad note, on the US App Store: http://appshopper.com/bestsellers/gros/?device=ipad

iPad: #77 and rising in Top Grossing.
iPhone: #139 and rising in Top Grossing.

Doesn't surprise me tbh. When I look at what people's taste is in mobile games I just shake my head
I just wish I released a simple Bejeweled clone or something similar and be obscenely rich today...

 

[Nyx]

So I had to know and your guess is almost right, only you don't get any gems.
After playing for a while, you get an ingame popup, that indicates that 5 stars helps them and the game:

If you tap on 1-4 Stars, you get another popup, that let's you e-mail them:

Taping on 5 Stars sends you to the play store.

Just wow....

 

[inm8num2]

Good.

 

[Detox]

Wait Metro are the Digitiser guys? How did I not know this?

Post Mr Biffo.

 

[XT Vengeance]

Here you go, this is the only way a quicklook of this game can be done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oKpTHk9TDY&hd=1

What the actual fuck? Good lord that is atrocious. I can't believe that anyone would play something as awful as that.

 

[epmode]

On a sad note, on the US App Store: http://appshopper.com/bestsellers/gros/?device=ipad

iPad: #77 and rising in Top Grossing.
iPhone: #139 and rising in Top Grossing.

This is why they decided to reanimate Dungeon Keeper's corpse rather than create a new IP. Cynical garbage, very EA.

 

[Kinyou]

That this Game actually got some positive reviews is just embarrassing

 

[KKRT00]

True, but downloading it will increase the possibility of the player giving money to EA, as well as boosting it up the top downloads list, giving it more exposure.

If someone to gave money for this game, it means that he/she was enjoying it. So whats wrong that?
People can do whatever they want.

Meanwhile games that need coverage do not have one, like Shadow Warrior or ROTT.

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This is why they decided to reanimate Dungeon Keeper's corpse rather than create a new IP. Cynical garbage, very EA.

Yeah, the only painful aspect is that its using Dungeon Keeper name. Other than that, its next awful mobile game, i'll never see again, nor should You.

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It's not a significant mobile release until it's out on iOS.

It was released on iOS in October.

 

[Brazil]

It *was* a significant release when it came out like 6 months ago.

It's not a significant mobile release until it's out on iOS.

 

[Sinatar]

It's not a significant mobile release until it's out on iOS.

I played the iOS version when it first came out last fall. This game is old hat, but someone wrote an article about it so now everyone is jumping on it.

Not that it doesn't deserve it, the game is absolute garbage.

 

[thelatestmodel]

That this Game actually got some positive reviews is just embarrassing

Yeah, they've got a system that filters out the less-than-5-star ones (which should be prohibited in the App Store to be honest).

The Metacritic ones are surely sponsored.

 

[Dire]

I have a feeling it's going to have millions of downloads and be lucrative anyway.

Us vocal gamers who read forums and news sites are only a small percentage of the market. The rest ruins everything for us.

A fun read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983

Seriously can anybody read that and tell me it doesn't read like some sort of very blatant literary foreshadowing of what's currently happening in this industry. The point is that about the time "the rest" start backlashing, it's already game over. Please excuse the painful pun.

 

[BlueTsunami]

This made me wonder how that mobile Ultima game fared...

Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar 2/10

...EA curb stomping classics left and right.

 

[Xater]

I also liked Impire.

Impire is really not good, especially not compared to any of the games I listed.

 

[mcfishstick]

It's disgusting that such a great, fun game has been reduced to this wretched money-snatcher app.

GOG still has the first 2 games and Steam has War fr the Overworld in early access, which looks to be a great not-dungeonkeeper3.l

 

[Red Arremer]

Impire is really not good, especially not compared to any of the games I listed.

Well yeah. It was not as good as those games you mentioned, but I still think it was a decent experience.

 

[Polk]

It's also a reboot of a classic franchise, unlike Farmville or Candy Crush. Makes sense to talk about it on a gaming site.

Wasn't game released last november though?

 

[Xater]

It's disgusting that such a great, fun game has been reduced to this wretched money-snatcher app.

GOG still has the first 2 games and Steam has War fr the Overworld in early access, which looks to be a great not-dungeonkeeper3.l

The real fun thing about War for the Overworld is that that was the original subtitle for Dungeon Keeper 3.

 

[Zach]

I hope we get to the point where all gaming journalists are similarly disgusted with this nonsense.

 

[Clear]

Seriously can anybody read that and tell me it doesn't read like some sort of very blatant literary foreshadowing of what's currently happening in this industry. The point is that about the time "the rest" start backlashing, it's already game over. Please excuse the painful pun.

I don't see it. At all. And besides yhe whole '83 crash was a very localized phenomenon that had minimal impact outside of NA. 1983 was the start of the golden age of European -particularly UK- development, and in Japan it was simply business as usual.

Given how globalized the industry now is, how deeply gaming is culturally embedded, and the sheer range of platforms and devices for which games can be developed, a situation like "the great crash" simply cannot ever reoccur.

Citing this event is a meaningless sound-bite given how chalk and cheese different the world is today.

The sort of blatant profiteering represented by this DK "game", is simply going to give its practitioners a horrible reputation that will end up costing them in the long-run. There is no economic necessity to embed "micro"(ha!)-transactions costing more than a full price AAA console title in a mobile game -Its just excessive greed beyond belief.

I believe the market will see this sort of scumbaggery for what it is, and simply reject it in favour of better value propositions from the thousands of competitor products.

 

[Enosh]

Yeah, they've got a system that filters out the less-than-5-star ones (which should be prohibited in the App Store to be honest).

?
I just gave it 1 star on the app store without any issues

 

[nkarafo]

For a moment i thought this was about the PC classic. Almost got a heart attack. I forgot about the shitty remake...

 

[spookyfish]

Goddammit EA. Will you ever release a game again that isn't completely and utterly fucked up in some way or another?

"Can't wait for the Star Wars games!!!"

People who have any sense of optimism for those -- I don't understand it.

 

[mclem]

?
I just gave it 1 star on the app store without any issues

I think the point is that the various rating prompts in-game are designed to only funnel 5-star raters to the store, the other raters are sent elsewhere.

 

[Saty]

EA has already started it's push to win 'Worst company in America' 2015 award.

 

[thelatestmodel]

?
I just gave it 1 star on the app store without any issues

I meant the in-game one, see further up in the thread.

 

[Enosh]

I think the point is that the various rating prompts in-game are designed to only funnel 5-star raters to the store, the other raters are sent elsewhere.

just saw that
if you press "not now" where does it take you? just back to the game?

 

[dripdripsplash]

Seems to be working:

Maybe that was their plan all along!

 

[plasmawave]

EA lol

 

[FACE]

Seems to be working:

War for the Overworld also got a bump.

 

[VoidZero]

just saw that
if you press "not now" where does it take you? just back to the game?

Yes

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

I posted this a couple months ago:

Dungeon Keeper F2P producer: If you want Dungeon Keeper or Dungeon Keeper 2 go to GOG

The actual article title I linked to in that thread was "Don’t like F2P Dungeon Keeper? Get lost, EA says."

After years, literally years of red ink, worthless 9-digit investments, innumerable upheaved careers, destroyed IP, shuttered dev houses, and flaccid stock prices, with some of Dat Mobile Cash, EA gets that swagger back.

How? They found new dick. Stupid, spendthrift whale dick.

 

[Bisnic]

Sucks that Bioware is part of EA, or I would completely stop buying any games with the EA name attached to it. But alas, i'm too much of a Mass Effect fan to resist.

Unless... Mass Effect 4 turns out to be the exact same game as this Dungeon Keeper shit. Then it will be easy to ignore.

 

[Warm Machine]

Tapout makes something like 1.2 million a day. This is not surprising.

 

[CheDominik]

Tapout makes something like 1.2 million a day. This is not surprising.

And I find it baffling that so many gaffers seem to like it based on the OT.
When I tried it it seemed to be similar to Dungeon Keeper mobile.

Have I missed something?

Serious question not being snarky.

 

[FrozenCell]

I think these threads should also be used to promote what seems to be a true Dungeon Keeper successor called War for the Overworld: https://wftogame.com/

Thank you!

 

[Snuggles]

Sucks that Bioware is part of EA, or I would completely stop buying any games with the EA name attached to it. But alas, i'm too much of a Mass Effect fan to resist.

Unless... Mass Effect 4 turns out to be the exact same game as this Dungeon Keeper shit. Then it will be easy to ignore.

Pay $4.99 to speed up Garrus' calibrations.

 

[malingenie]

And I find it baffling that so many gaffers seem to like it based on the OT.
When I tried it it seemed to be similar to Dungeon Keeper mobile.

Have I missed something?

Serious question not being snarky.

Nope. ITS THE SAME SHIT GAME. I too cant understand why anyone would play either of those monstrosities. I know some of us sound like old men shouting at clouds, but never in the 31 years of gaming have I been more worried about its future. We really will see this shit eating over your favorite franchise soon. ($1.99 invisibility potions for Snake; $0.99 1-Up mushrooms, etc.) I simply cant see businesses NOT going this way. Thankfully indies are rising and may actually become a cushion for us old folks.

 

[SpookyFries]

Fucking disgusting. I shouldn't be surprised though.

 

[Damaniel]

Goddammit EA. Will you ever release a game again that isn't completely and utterly fucked up in some way or another?

No, because people keep buying them. Every time someone in this thread or elsewhere says, "I hate EA and they're the worst company ever... well, except for the latest installment of <insert relevant EA franchise> - I just have to play that," they're contributing to the problem. EA speaks money, and the only way to get them to change is to deny them money. Even if that means personal sacrifice by not playing the one or two games of theirs that you like. Anything less is just telling EA you approve of *all* of their business practices (by keeping them in business).

 

[kpaadet]

Metro to the rescue!

Pros: Older smartphones aren’t compatible.

lol

 

[Brashnir]

No, because people keep buying them. Every time someone in this thread or elsewhere says, "I hate EA and they're the worst company ever... well, except for the latest installment of <insert relevant EA franchise> - I just have to play that," they're contributing to the problem. EA speaks money, and the only way to get them to change is to deny them money. Even if that means personal sacrifice by not playing the one or two games of theirs that you like. Anything less is just telling EA you approve of *all* of their business practices (by keeping them in business).

Yep, and going back and buying the old Dungeon Keeper games, as many have suggested in this thread, is also contributing to the problem. Guess where that money goes?

EA knows they can shit out garbage like this and take money from the oblivious IOS audience, while also hitting the nostalgia button of hardcore gamers and tricking them into buying another copy of a game they bought 15 years ago.

 

[omnislayer]

even after this people are still going buy titan fall enabling them to pull more bullshit like this.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

We really will see this shit eating over your favorite franchise soon. ($1.99 invisibility potions for Snake; $0.99 1-Up mushrooms, etc.) I simply cant see businesses NOT going this way. T

If FE Awakening is more to go on it'll be a 2 level pack for $4. One level is the top secret zone in SMW (lots of powerups), another it just stairs and a flagpole. Oh the flagpole has a turtle on it, the only occasion where you can do this in the game. So essenitally paying for cheats *sigh*

OT: Tapped out the only version is f2p nonesense, it doesn't have an alternate version to compare which might be why people can see Dungeon keeper as bad but something similar as not.