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How Game of War makes more than $1M a day

cackhyena said:
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She got no behind and weird lookin hips/waist and her face is just average so its not ugly but not particularly attractive to me.
 
foxtrot3d said:
As opposed to what, non-time wasting games? It's all entertainment.
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Is it entertainment, though? Seems that the mobile game market is largely about playing on people's psychological tendencies. I mean, there's an element of that in traditional games as well, but its usually backed up with other, more in-depth and thoughtful mechanics in most cases. This mobile stuff just seems so direct and deliberate. Creating something interesting is less important than creating something addicting.
 
Despite me not liking the game, kudos to the developers for finding something that works.
Don't hate the player, hate the game!
 
Every time Kate Upton makes a sponsored tweet about Game of War, there's a hilarious amount of backlash in the replies, people saying obvious shit.

My favorite has always been the "They're not playing the game for you. They're playing for your boobs."
 
foxtrot3d said:
As opposed to what, non-time wasting games? It's all entertainment.
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Please don't pretend that there is no difference in the quality of time spent on one entertainment product vs another.

The only thing this app gets you is a large bill from iTunes and a lot of regret.

These things are making big money on young investment bankers and upper managers who pay more to get ahead of their friends in the game. Its a trend fueled by people with more money than sense. Its all disgusting and wasteful. There's no art or design or creativity, all of the effort goes into ways to convince the player to keep spending.
 
Quadraphonic said:
Every time Kate Upton makes a sponsored tweet about Game of War, there's a hilarious amount of backlash in the replies, people saying obvious shit.

My favorite has always been the "They're not playing the game for you. They're playing for your boobs."
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I bet she's pretty upset to find this out
 
7DollarHagane said:
Please don't pretend that there is no difference in the quality of time spent on one entertainment product vs another.

The only thing this app gets you is a large bill from iTunes and a lot of regret.

These things are making big money on young investment bankers and upper managers who pay more to get ahead of their friends in the game. Its a trend fueled by people with more money than sense. Its all disgusting and wasteful. There's no art or design or creativity, all of the effort goes into ways to convince the player to keep spending.
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Sounds like a 2012 onwards AAA video game.
 
Papercuts said:
I legitimately don't think I've ever seen a game advertised so aggressively. I see kate upton titties literally everywhere.
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Yup, can't escape these damn ads.

Every commercial break, Super Bowl, I see em on GAF, and especially Twitter. I had to block Kate Upton's twitter account cause promoted crap kept showing up in my feed.
 
7DollarHagane said:
Please don't pretend that there is no difference in the quality of time spent on one entertainment product vs another.

The only thing this app gets you is a large bill from iTunes and a lot of regret.

These things are making big money on young investment bankers and upper managers who pay more to get ahead of their friends in the game. Its a trend fueled by people with more money than sense. Its all disgusting and wasteful. There's no art or design or creativity, all of the effort goes into ways to convince the player to keep spending.
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Are you sure? The art director could have poured his or her heart and soul into this, and you shit on him or her. To have someone call your creation disgusting or wasteful is pretty harsh. It just might not be for you. And that's okay. Plus, it's not that they spent all their time making ways to monetize correctly that the artist COULD have been using to do something else, anyway. That shit doesn't make sense to say.
 
Doctor_Thomas said:
Sounds like a 2012 onwards AAA video game.
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No crap, this trend is just an evolution of DLC.
This has been done before with World of Warcraft/Everquest ages ago (gold farming).

The only difference now is developers realize this and take money away from gold farmers.
Just like WoW/EQ, you can play the games just fine without spending a penny. You just need lots of time.
 
7DollarHagane said:
Please don't pretend that there is no difference in the quality of time spent on one entertainment product vs another.

The only thing this app gets you is a large bill from iTunes and a lot of regret.

These things are making big money on young investment bankers and upper managers who pay more to get ahead of their friends in the game. Its a trend fueled by people with more money than sense. Its all disgusting and wasteful. There's no art or design or creativity, all of the effort goes into ways to convince the player to keep spending.
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People pay for things they like, no one is forcing anyone to buy the game. If the game truly had no value then it wouldn't be successful. I may think the game is shit garbage but that doesn't mean that others don't like it or that it doesn't somehow deserve its success. It's the same reason people bitch and moan about COD outselling everything year after year. Learn to accept the fact that a good amount of the population enjoys something you don't.
 
Can't help it, I fucking hate this shit with a passion. Really hope it at least functions as a gateway for the people playing this to something a little more decent.
 
What people don't get is that AAA development is just A LOT safer and guaranteed on consoles and PCs, mobile gaming is so volatile it's almost like a gamble. As long as FIFA's, GTA's and CoD's continue to sell, "hardcore" gaming won't die.
 
Depressing.

Though can't blame companies that focus on mobile when they can get away with making cash like this.

But I still don't like it.
 
7DollarHagane said:
Sweet generalization there pal.

I won't engage with people who want this future.
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I don't want this future, but you can't sit back and say that AAA video games aren't equally guilty of this. There's so much DLC and pointless collect tasks in some games that it's really no different, except there's an entrace fee and the cost of "currency" for the AAA, this just cuts out the cost and makes the repetative task the feature. People wanted this because they think it gives them "more for their money".
 
7DollarHagane said:
Please don't pretend that there is no difference in the quality of time spent on one entertainment product vs another.

The only thing this app gets you is a large bill from iTunes and a lot of regret.

These things are making big money on young investment bankers and upper managers who pay more to get ahead of their friends in the game. Its a trend fueled by people with more money than sense. Its all disgusting and wasteful. There's no art or design or creativity, all of the effort goes into ways to convince the player to keep spending.
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People are entertained and enjoying themselves. Nothing wrong with that.
 
I played this one called Empire Craft. It was a chinese badly written empire building game but, it was so massively pay 2 win you could not possibly succeed without spending money. The game went 3 years without a single update, or any word from the developers and yet even till the bitter end people were still spending several hundred dollars a day on the game.
 
Purple Cheeto said:
Zynga never properly got in the mobile space. They bet too heavily first on Facebook games and then later on their own portal. By the time they tried to get into mobile it was too late.
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While this is true I could post similar stock drops for other mobile players if you would like?

I'm not saying Mobile is a bad industry to get into, but its also not true its just billions being thrown around for fun and anyone can release anything on it and make a fortune. I've legitimately seen articles that try to make the mobile space seem that way.
 
7DollarHagane said:
Please don't pretend that there is no difference in the quality of time spent on one entertainment product vs another.

The only thing this app gets you is a large bill from iTunes and a lot of regret.

These things are making big money on young investment bankers and upper managers who pay more to get ahead of their friends in the game. Its a trend fueled by people with more money than sense. Its all disgusting and wasteful. There's no art or design or creativity, all of the effort goes into ways to convince the player to keep spending.
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This. So much this.
 
Fallout-NL said:
Can't help it, I fucking hate this shit with a passion. Really hope it at least functions as a gateway for the people playing this to something a little more decent.
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Like legitimate gambling? At least there is a small chance of getting your money back at the casino.
 
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