What was the best thing to happen in vidya in 2015?
What are you looking forward to in 2016?
>>321715696
http://pastebin.com/KewwN2Ez
We did it, /v/!
>>321715696
>opinion
>Oct 19
Looks like the mobile game market isn't as lucrative as shareholders believe.
>>321715696
this game is slow, ugly, boring shit and the developers have no right to whine about failing in a market that is a complete gamble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_fQu8xNq0A
>the golden age of mobile gaming
>>321715696
>Mobile games had a golden age
Flappy Bird was the pillar of a spiral of shit.
>mobile gaming
what did they mean by this?
>the golden age of mobile gaming
>>321716503
games sold on mobile devices not designated to be portable gaming handhelds.
essentially shitty tap games.
>>321715696
>golden age of mobile gaming
what
>october 19th
why
his opinion wouldn't be to bad if it wasn't for the completely title tone of the article. That and the whole piece is a thinly veiled advertisement.
>entitled consumers would rather spend 5 dollars on a latte and not us
Always sounds like such a buttblasted go to argument from people who produce mediocre bullshit nobody wants.
>>321715696
>polygon
>blaming consumers
>>321717084
The way there abuse entitled makes their butthurt so much better.
>>321715774
>Why aren't you buying our game you entitled shitlord?
No one has any news that made the happy this year?
>>321715696
Literally laughed out "Hah!" at "Golden age of mobile gaming"
When was this?
>Be gaming news site
>Consumers do not care for certain types of games
>Shit on consumers
>Be surprised when receiving some sort of backlash
>Turn into victims
E'rry time
>>321716235
>this game is slow, ugly, boring shit
So, a standard mobile game then?
hey guys
thought i'd take this as an opportunity to issue a public apology.
i'm sorry about the mobile market, it's all my fault. sorry.
>>321720550
Arround 2009/2010 back when smartphones were a luxury item.
>>321721308
What are you talking about? It's actually my fault.
>the golden age of mobile gaming
I wasnt aware it existed
Best 2015: Kojima fired
Best 2016: Kojima dying
>>321715774
Just read the whole thing. Its all just one giant rant that his lame ass looking game isn't selling.
And why the hell does he keep throwing subs at lattes? What app is he specifically referring to?
>>321715696
>mobile gaming is still garbage thanks to "G A M E R S" ugh *sigh* gross....
np
>>321720550
>he never played monhun on PSP with his bros.
Well that is on you kid.
>>321721674
Mobile gaming =/= Handheld gaming
>What was the best thing to happen in vidya in 2015?
Announcement of a PC version of Dragons Dogma
>What are you looking forward to in 2016?
Dragons Dogma
>>321721454
Isn't a latte a type of coffee?
>>321715696
The golden age of mobile gaming refers to playing snake on my old brick, right?
>>321715696
this game
also what is this face trying to convey?
>>321721964
A gigantic fart.
>>321721867
nah, it's german slang for boners.
>>321715696
>>321715774
>telling me to vote with my dollars on what I want to see
>mfw he's blaming me for the downfall of mobile games when I've been voting with my dollars by not buying fuck all for mobile games because most all of them are shit and not what I want in a game
Also:
>the golden age of mobile gaming
>>321721867
Yeah but he keeps referring to people choosing to have one over buying his game. Is he talking about the starbucks app or something?
>>321715696
>bring back the golden age
What fucking golden age is he talking about? The golden age of being able to play solitaire on your phone or the golden age of freemium?
>>321722304
Using the price of a cup of coffee in comparison to other things is pretty common. Like, you could feed an African for a week, but you'd rather buy a $5 latte. It's meant to make you feel bad for how you spend your money.
>>321722304
No you massive faggot.
He's saying that people prefer to buy a cup of coffe (like 2 to 5 bucks) over paying for shitty mobile games (same price range).
How can you be this dense? Shut the fuck up Onsokumaru.
>Projecting his entitled coffee shop hipster ass annihilation
Hilarious.
>>321722440
>>321722465
Ohh okay, my bad.
tfw blew $100 on PAD
>>321715696
why didn't you just play eliss?
http://www.little--eyes.com/eliss
When the fuck was the "golden age of mobile gaming" because the only mobile game I've ever played that hasn't screamed in my face every three seconds to buy $5,000 worth of in-game currency is that Love Live game.
>>321715696
Oh my fucking god No Man's Sky and Last Guardian better be good or I'm trading in my PS4 for an Xbone.
The only mobile game I play is Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage.
It's pretty fun.
Everything just reminds me of flash games I played in browsers at school 15 years ago, except instead of adverts you have to spend money to be less annoyed by the game, also there are adverts.
>>321721146
>Polygon.
>Expecting good writing.
>>321722860
The fuck does that have to do with anything?
>>321715696
Witcher 3and Fallout 4, if only to see how incompetent Bethesda can get.
The Mandate.
>>321715696
>bring back the golden age of mobile gaming
How can you bring back something that never existed?
Can't wait for Royal Waifu simulator 2016
All of it
The sweet embrace of death
>>321715696
>What was the best thing to happen in vidya in 2015?
Normies calling out konami even if it didn't amount to much
>What are you looking forward to in 2016?
Dark Souls 3 comes to mind immediately
Playing twilight princess for the first time
Maybesenran kagura
>>321723054
Hey fuck you kid it has to do with what I'm looking forward to, I would think it is clearly implied I'm looking forward to these and I hope they don't suck.
>>321715696
Holy shit, what an absolute child
>>321715696
>golden age of mobile gaming
>golden age
what, Angry Birds?
>>321715696
>What are you looking forward to in 2016?
Resident Evil 0 HD
Dragon's Dogma PC
Dark Souls III
Hitman
>>321721454
>tfw drinking a warm pumpkin spice latte while knowing mobile vidya is burning because of me
Mmm. I don't know which one is more delicious.
>>321716894
Mmm i'd say it's more of a glib facsimilie
>What was the best thing to happen in vidya in 2015?
Heh, nothing, this was a dead year.
>What are you looking forward to in 2016?
Persona 5, Dishonored 2, Demon Gaze 2.
>>321721384
i'm sorry to both of you. it is my fault.
>>321725112
I agree, shallow and pedantic
>>321722440
I do the something simmilar with Callories intake.
In Congo the average callorie intake is 1590C so when when cutting it each about 1.3 Africans a day. But when. Bulking I can go all the way up to 2.2 Africans a day or more.
>>321715774
I sympathize with this guy. It must be soul crushing to make an actual game and have it fail while watching some company shit out absolute trash like Bomb Beach that people just gobble up and burn millions of dollars on.
>>321725353
Guys stop realy. I get what you're trying to do but it was me.
>>321715696
>What was the best thing to happen in vidya in 2015?
Tekken 7
>What are you looking forward to in 2016?
Tekken 7 FR
>>321725817
Yea we all wish mobile could support real game development instead of this casual p2w nonsense. The market simply isn't there not our faultbut I'll gladly take creditit just free market at work. For good or bad it's how it is.
The issue people have with him is his feeling of entitlement and tone. Also he just writing an opion piece as way to advertise his game.
>>321715696
The golden age of shit is still shit.
>>321715696
here's what i got from that article
>I made a game, now my company is in the red. why does mobile gaming market suck?
>because of YOU.
>because you people threaten us poor impoverished devs with bad reviews to get free copies. because you fucking micro-transaction whales giving a handful of developers all the mobile gaming money when it should be going to hardworking honest talented dev teams like mine.
>google and apple said my game was good, so why am i not making a lot of money? why are my sells not that good?
>we need to change the market, you can start by buying my game. the other way is that devs need to stop being so mean and help each-other(me) out.
>this article has been brought to you by me the dev of the game i mentioned multiple times throughout the article, here's a hyperlink to my kickstarter.
>golden age of mobile gaming
The difference is that people want lattes. They don't want shitty mobile games. Why would anyone even attempt to get into that awful market?
>golden age of mobile gaming
ayylmao
>>321715696
>Golden age of mobile gaming
The "bubble" popping for mobile gaming was one of the best things to happen this year. Mobile gaming fully failing is the best thing for videogames. Maybe all these greedy fuckers will go fuck off now.
>You see, we have a problem in the mobile gaming sector, thanks to you
Off to a bad start blaming readers/consumers but maybe there is a well reasoned explanation.
>In order for creative games to be made, there needs to be a major culture shift
Does there? People have made creative video games for decades.
>First, only certain games can bring in money for developers
Uh, developers make their money before a game is released, at least typically. I have no idea if mobile developers work for free, maybe they do.
>Second, only certain types of players will find it easy to find games suitable for them
How saturated is the market in terms of genre? I think a HUGE number of genres that will ever exist do already.
>classical conditioning makes a lot of players feel entitled to have everything for free
I'd love to see him explain this, although he should be aware previous mobile games companies CREATED that situation with their pricing schemes, not consumers.
>Why? Because the most popular games are free-to-play, with a monetization model that lets most players play for free while milking some customers for thousands of dollar
Well here you go, retard. This isn't a consumer problem, it's a mobile game publisher problem. Created by the companies, not consumers.
>Players have a very real power to impact the sales of a game through ratings. With many of our mobile games, we have users blackmail us with ratings
While this is people abusing a system, the system is what is flawed. People will abuse anything, why does the mobile app market work like this? Take it up with Apple (and lesser extent Google, which basically aped them).
>there is no way for us to request the removal of these reviews on either Apple or Google's marketplaces
That's a good thing, since developers could abuse that just as people abuse the current system.
>To make money as a mobile game developer you have to have your game high enough up in the top lists
I agree, whine to the companies, they did it.
>>321726042
>Tekken 7
>good
>golden age of mobile gaming
Like the gameboy days or mid 2000 times?
>>321715696
good
fuck mobile gaming
>>321728924
>Gamers need to learn to vote with their money
They already do. Tastes vary across the board but people buy shit they like for the most part. Some will always pirate and most of those who do won't buy a game if they can't pirate it.
>Many serious gamers complain about all the casual games coming out for mobile, but don't support the serious game developers that build the games that they want!
I would love to see him prove this assumption.
>Remember when you would fork over $40 for Zelda or Pokémon games on Game Boy? Imagine the amazing games we could play on our phones if we paid developers enough to create them!
Lol, you need to make a good game first champ. Nobody has made anything close to the Oracle series or Pokemon.
A big reason is input in my opinion. People who want to play serious games don't want to do it on a capacitive touch screen and with zero buttons. This is because that is a garbage setup for input. This is a bigger obstacle you're facing than anything else. Good luck changing Appledweebs minds about muh no buttunz though. The cancer ridden Jobs already engrained that.
>The other shift needs to be from the developer side
The main shift has to be here.
>Game developers are fighting against each other, when they should realize that we are allies as well as rivals. While we are rivals in achieving visibility, we are allies against the classical conditioning, the market today and the undervaluing of our hard work.
Blame big scale companies you fag, EA equivalents in the mobile space will crush you if you try to go against the flow. It doesn't matter if you rally 100 indie studios, these juggernauts exploit the system and consumers and will continue to get away with it unless you can get more creative.
>we lowered the price of our work more and more, so much so that now a consumer won't pay even a few dollars for a game
Yup, only part I agree with. This is exactly what occurred.
>It is not about making good games right now
Fuck off
>>321728039
Does this stop microtransaction being on PC and consoles. No of course not
>bring back the golden age of mobile gaming
But you can already play Snake on 99% of phones.
>>321722218
>tfw i was so mad at the cancellation of that that i started to learn 3d so i could do my own low poly low texture animations
IM GONNA DO MY OWN MEGAMAN LEGENDS WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS.
Liberals need to be gassed for the good of humanity.
>>321715696
Those devs should have put their game on a real platform. Mobile is a joke, and has always been.
The money makers are f2p money traps or ad infested garbage. Just because everyone has a phone game, does not mean they are going to buy games on it.
>>321729108
that's the handheld market, unless you're talking about old flip phone games.
For anons who have these, do they make mobile gaming worth it?
>>321722218
>>321729586
I wish I knew how to model and animate. :(
>>321729935
For one thing, they're sold out. At least they were.
For another, there really aren't enough games.
>>321729935
Yes. They use the sunken cost principle to make the games seem more worth it.
>>321729728
Flip phones yeah.
I remember how shit the ports are along with horrible midi like music. Gameboy and game gear does a much better job then shit flip phones
The best thing to happen in vidya was the announcement of dragon's dogma for PC
I am looking forward to dragon's dogma for PC
>>321715696
>polygon
>golden age
>mobile gaming
>>321724869
Fuck off white girl
>>321730318
Basic bitches transcend race, anon.
>>321729720
You'll be surprised most of the phone users are mostly kids with shit parents or mothers first "candy crush saga" vidya.
I only use phones or tablet for portable internet browser or youtube. Though I heard emulation is good on those devices.
>>321715696
perhaps, like every other gaming fad before it, it has run its course. At the end of the day, when all of the mobile wells are dried up, all of the developers will have to come crawling back to the PC and console gamers that had been their core audience in the past and admit that they made a mistake.
That will be a good day
>>321720550
Shut the fuck up, tripfag.
How come everybody writing for polygon is a fucking moron?
I mean are they trying to make every article they publish as retarded as possible?
>>321715696
>mobile gaming
fucking lol, it deserve to die.
those "games" was not developed by real game developer to began with.
>tap here to receive daily reward
>tap there to roll gatcha once
>don't have real difficulty measure, roll UR gatcha to win battle
>event consist of: if you don't have UR you won't win this fight, go roll some gatcha
>this SSR card skill only valid for this event
>>321715696
>What was the best thing to happen in vidya in 2015?
Cloud announcement for Smash was unexpected as fuck
What are you looking forward to in 2016?
VR games and support
>>321715696
>image titled "we did it"
>article is complaining about how free to play dominates the market because we all feel entitled to free content
How exactly did we "do it" when /v/, as a whole, does not support the free to play model and that is why the mobile game market is a mess? What did we succeed in if what we hate is what's winning?
STOP NOT GIVING MY BANDWAGONING FRIENDS MONEY YOU SELFISH HYPERCONSUMERS
>>321715696
>Expecting the mobile audience to buy an actual game
kek
This is the same audience that plays Facebook games aka casuals.
Why the fuck would you expect them to play a game thats longer than 5 minutes?
>>321716235
Jesus christ not even 5 minutes in and I'm already bored.
>>321730719
>pay 2.99 to not wait for the play timer
>share it to your friends on shitbook to get more lives
>for 5.99 you can get the ultra rare item to beat this level
>give this game 5 stars for extra bullshit
Anything else?
>>321715774
>kikestarter
dead on arrival
>>321729951
Never too late to start learning. I started doing 3d 2 months ago and i can do that.
>>321720550
When Angry Birds and Temple Run was big.
You could probably count in Candy Crush as well.
>>321730719
I feel stuff like the Marvel games aren't AS bad outside Contest of Champions.
But then.....
>lol, pay us 30 bucks or bot-grind for 4 hours a day to get off to the level of rich 15 year olds in Japan that have Silk/Sif/BlackCat, FemCap, and She Hulk as their westaboo waifus.
>>321717246
A market equals supply and DEMAND.
Congratulations, you're half the problem.
>You see, we have a problem in the mobile gaming sector, thanks to you. You would rather buy a pumpkin spice latte a few times a week and enjoy it for a few minutes than buy a game that you can play as long as you would like.
This is pretty much true. I know I'm going to enjoy a latte. Meanwhile this game looks like absolute dogshit. I've bought 3 new games this year, none of them mobile. I have a dedicated games platform for a reason.
Do these people not know they're completely insufferable?
>>321731078
I can't even draw stick figures though.
>>321731242
No because their friends, colleagues and readers share their opinions
>>321726042
>Didn't know a new Tekken was out
>It's PS4 only
Well fuck me then. It's never really occurred before. Is Tekken a Sony exclusive franchise? This is the first gen I haven't gone PS, but I'm sure the Wii U had Tekken of some sort.
Is it likely to show on Xbone or no?
hopefully the golden age is in relation to all the emulators that have been developed for android
>mfw killing the mobile market by buying pvz2 plants and chaos rings quadrology
ask me if i give a fuck
>>321731418
Their readers share the opinion that they personally ruined the mobile market regardless of it being shit and mostly suited only toward mothers and schoolchildren?
>>321731539
I worked on PvZ2, thank you for having supported my drug habit.
>>321715696
Turok is better than ever. That's about it.
>>321731126
the mayans predicted the end of the mobile game golden age
What is it with moms and mobile gaming? My mom jokes about me being on the PC so much but she sits on the coach for hours playing repetitive F2P games.
Why is he mad at coffee?
>>321731671
you seriously work at popcap? that is awesome. pvz is my favorite phone series but 2 went really jewish and forced you to buy shit to beat certain levels. personally, i can afford it so its not a huge problem but im sure there are thousands of kids who cried because of how unfair the game was at times compared to the first one.
can you explain the hardcore shift in 2?
>>321715696
Wait, there was a "Golden Age" of mobile gaming? In what alternate dimension did this occur?
>See article
You're right mobile dev blogging on a "news" site to guilt trip me, I'll go buy some games right now!
So I'm enjoying Final Fantasy 2, 4 and 6 on mobile. That good enough?
>>321731761
Simple. Moms need to talk to their kids or friends or work, so they all have phones. And they have plenty of time to waste, usually, so what can they do that's free***, fun**, and isn't hard?
Mobile games.
>expected
Fatal Frame 5 getting localized and getting to spin around like an idiot with a tablet controller fighting digital ghosts
>surprise
Brandish the Dark Revenant getting localized and it being fucking fantastic
>>321730614
I can't imagine people accepting back retards with open arms. They will also find it much more difficult to work in that old environment and good. The industry should ditch all the dead weight anyway, anybody who bought into it deserves to enter a different field altogether.
>>321722340
Snake on a Nokia phone. That's a golden age worth revisiting IMO.
>>321731064
There's plenty of cancer revolving around them, to the point making the entire platform known for it's shitty cashgrab attempt.
>pay 1.99 to increase chance of rare items
>pay 0.99 to instantly make timer goes down
>pay 0.99 to instantly fill energy so you can continue play
>pay 4.99 for mid-fight revive (this getting real shitty if the fight was not fair to began with)
>pay 9.99 to unlock dungeon instantly
etc, to make it worse these cancer are slowly infect both console and PC sector, which is very disgusting.
>>321715696
>Make America great again
>Make mobile gaming great again
Why do Americans insist on remembering eras that never existed?
Things are better now, only Elites are bottom ruffled because they realize they can't build monopolies as easily as it was decades ago, and grandpas who were too late to be part of the "greatest generation" and spent most of their time watching tv.
>>321731491
Emulators on touch screen aren't the best. Dr. Mario is 98% of what I play.
>>321730815
Shh. Don't over think it anon. Just bask in the unfathomable despair of others.
>>321732115
Nostalgia googles are a hell of a drug, anon.
>>321731887
I used to but I don't work there anymore.
Surprisingly enough we tried to balance it so you don't *need* to buy anything to win. It's hard but doable for every level. Wintermelon is the best plant in the game.
Beach is a bitch though, partially because the designer who worked on it left shortly afterward and the world was rushed to hell.
I can't really speak on anything past Frostbite or so.
>>321732115
>Elites are bottom ruffled because they realize they can't build monopolies as easily as it was decades ago
It's easier than ever if you're already on the top actually. It was harder a few decades ago (although before that it was even easier again, yeah).
>>321721964
thats the face someone makes before they leave a lipstick ring around the base of your dick
>golden age of mobile gaming
>too fucking lazy to jailbreak S6 because no games are worth pirating
>>321732328
>tfw we will never break the stranglehold that Comcast and TimeWarner holds over internet connections
>>321715774
>that third paragraph
I wanna punch this douche in the face. Also, holy shit does he hate lattes.
>>321732113
A lot of people complained about these types of cancer being in a paid game and making a lot of trust issues against the company yet its the publishers fault
>>321732249
yes i always take wintermelon with me. but taking plants that were in 1 like the jalapeno bomb or ice pea and locking them behind a paywall was just mean spirited, but i suspect it was ea who got behind popcaps ass. of course i could be wrong.
i dont know if ill ever beat the beach world though 2bh. there is tons of bullshit, like the killing x zombies in 10 seconds nonsense, but everything in beach is just hell. its still a good game but i liked paying a one time fee and getting everything with a natural difficulty progression rather than going f2p with jewing everywhere. did you do any work on garden warfare? or know any details about garden warfare 2? 1 is fucking near perfect, and 2 looks like the goty for next year.
>The word latte appears 8 times
What about people who don't care for RTS #445879, which, based on nothing more than the title, is what this probably is?
Fuck, man, why can't I just play games without being shat on by the press for either not buying or when I do buy, not buying enough or being called entitled for not giving my hard-earned money to a genre I don't even care for?
>>321732512
These things break when things hit a breaking point.
Comcast and the like are relying on a "Put a frog in a pot, then slowly heat it up to boiling" strategy, but it always breaks eventually. Titans rise and fall, and the cycle continues.
But yeah it sucks.
>>321732512
Reminds me of EA for vidya.
EA could ONLY fall in a scenario where they lose sports contracts. Even if they lost 1 or 2 they still probably couldn't fall, although it would hurt them terribly which would be nice enough I guess.
Actibliz is also secure, though slightly less than EA, they rely on their established cashcows (which perform well). Love to see them die too though. Shame what Blizzard attached itself too.
My #3 evil would probably be Ubisoft, they aren't as bad but they are still pretty scummy and the only thing I'd miss would be Rayman, which occupies a niche that other games kind of fill better anyway. uPlay, Rehashin's Creed and their stupid other minor IPs should go.
>>321732328
>It's easier than ever if you're already on the top actually
You mean banks, and I am not entirely sure they are doing okay. Corporations on the other hand are losing numbers to starter ups.
Google, Apple, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft for example are not doing so hot, far from terrible but the fact there are more options ain't good for corporations, but it is hella great for the public.
Then again I might be just full of shit.
>>321715696
>Website aimed (supposedly) at core gamers
>Publishes article shaming them for not buying a game in a platform always known for casual games
>>321729935
I have one, just tried the EVE game where you control a turret on a big ship. Feels pretty insane, but you'd need to buy a controller to it in order to truly enjoy it for the "gaming" part and not the "VR experience". And I mean if you dont really enjoy VR that much you could just bring a 3DS or something and play actual full-out games.
The VR works and is pretty fucking cool tho.
>>321716235
The UI looks fucking ugly and clunky as fuck. It's a goddamn mobile game, UI is THE most important fucking shit to focus on. That compared to FTL. It just doesn't look very attractive.
>>321732730
>Fuck, man, why can't I just play games without being shat on by the press
Does that really bother you? Also "the press" for video games is largely filled with retards.
>>321725695
This is like measuring faggotry in Burches or something. Pretty good/10.
>>321732814
It gave up on being for "core gamers" the second it started shilling for whatever agenda was popular at the time.
>>321732814
>expecting intellegent article from literal idiotic site that publish retarded article every single day
>>321732796
>Corporations on the other hand are losing numbers to starter ups.
This is grossly exaggerated.
Most start ups fail (and always have actually).
If you get lucky and hit some turning point, you can upset an industry but lucky is the operative word here.
You can't upset Coca Cola, Wal-Mart, McDonalds and other shit like that.
It's just impossible, they are engrained into the global market.
In video games one example is EA.
As I mentioned above, EA can only die under one scenario, they lose their sports contracts, which keep them healthy no matter what retarded shit they do to their other IPs.
>>321715696
>mobile "gaming"
>>321732657
>taking plants that were in 1 like the jalapeno bomb or ice pea and locking them behind a paywall was just mean spirited
This happened before I worked there, but I think it was a hook to get people to buy based on nostalgia. And yes, the only reason PopCap went to freemium at all is EA meddling.
Beach being such a pain in the ass is why we gave everyone a free world key. If you really want to genuinely beat it, go to endless zones and cheese the fuck out of it with powerups.
Didn't work on GW, those aren't actually developed at PopCap proper, but by a different team in California.
>>321732842
It's not bothersome, just annoying. When will the games industry get its shit together? You don't see Ford or General Mills shitting on their customers because I didn't buy a Focus or Lucky Charms or whatever.
>>321731247
You don't need to draw to do 3d.
>>321733052
>You don't see Ford or General Mills shitting on their customers because I didn't buy a Focus or Lucky Charms or whatever
Apples and oranges really. Different types of markets. Also I'm sure faggots writing out blogs on literally anything they've worked on blaming customers exist, you just haven't seen them on /v/.
>>321732986
wait, what does sport contracts contribute to EA exactly?
FIFA? FNL?
>>321733098
But you do need some sort of artistry of which I have 0.
>>321715774
DONT BE MAD AT US YOUR GAME SUCKS DICK!
>>321733052
To be fair, it's not the games INDUSTRY that's doing it.
It's the hanger-ons like the gaming press that does this. So in that example, it would be... cereal fan letters that shit on you for not buying enough Cheerios?
>>321733162
You'll have to google all of them, they have quite a few.
http://investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=762885
FIFA is with them until 2022 right now.
Europeans buy GORILLIONS of these games every year. Always a top seller.
Ditto in North America for NBA/NHL, both which EA have locked down.
You cannot beat EA unless other companies poach the sports contracts and EA would see somebody coming a mile away and fuck them into oblivion because they know that sports are their lifeline.
Or you know, retards could stop buying sports games every year but that isn't happen based on precedent.
>>321733187
Talent is learned.
>>321731912
>>321731761
Just found out this weekend that my mom has spent hundreds of dollars dressing up dolls on some mobile app.
This is a far cry from the woman who introduced me to video games with her NES and SNES. We used to play those together all the time.
>>321731247
don't let your dreams be dreams.
here's a stick figure i just drew to prove anything is possible if you just do it.
>>321733338
>there will never be another NCAA game
NCAA was always better than Madden in every way. Fuck EA.
>>321733239
That makes far more sense. Since I read that article talking about "be the change that you want to see in the mobile space", I take it that his game is a RTS clone, isn't it?
Plus, anyone with a passing familiarity with consoles/handhelds would never make a cellphone their primary gaming device.
>>321733506
>Fuck EA.
That's the spirit but we have no control. Again, the only successful plan would be stealing their contracts.
>>321722440
I'd rather buy a cup of latte than feed an African than buy this piece of shit mobile app ""game"".
Also, weren't food analogies cheap (pun intended)?
>>321733553
Or to take Wilson's family hostage.
>>321733608
After you.
>>321733010
thats fucked up to little kids who felt like they had to buy stuff to win. i remember getting pissed as an adult, i cant imagine being a little kid and seeing my plants 2 get so hard. ea didnt care about the tears of kids? ill try that on the beach. to bad you didnt work on GW, have you played them? be proud of what popcap california made because those games are fucking fantastic.
>>321715696
What did poor lattle do to him, shit in his morning coffee?
>>321729096
Correct.
Best one since DR in my opinion.
>>321731469
It's arcade only at the moment, they announced it for PS4 without a date but are refusing to say it's exclusive, so Xbone or PC release is likely.
>>321734015
Kids just get their mums to buy whatever they want. And really, the biggest demographic for these kinds of games are 50 year old suburban women.
I own GW1. I like it but I'm not much for shooters.
But they are the only decent games EA has made in god knows how long.
>>321715696
>makes a shitty mobile game
>gets mad when nobody buys it
>writes an article saying it's your fault
Are there honestly any games worth playing that aren't just ports/ripoffs of gameboy games?
>>321734252
is that what a research told you? ive never seen a mom play plants but i have 2 nephews that love the series and collect the dolls, backpacks etc. we all play gw on ps4 and have a great time. the modern battlefield games arent that bad outside of dlc meddling and hardline. but i dont care for sports or racing games so most of it doesnt internet me. might get mirrors edge 2 though.
>>321734479
Yes. Ports of PS2 games.
>>321721674
if he's a kid that makes you a sperm
>>321734519
Freemium games usually have a metrics system. Yes, they collect data about you though most of demographic data is given to them through stuff like Facebook integration.
PvZ2 in particular, 99% of players never buy anything at all. But the remaining 1% buy literally millions of dollars of mtx each year. I think PvZ2 alone made over 18 million last year and it was the highest grossing game in the studio.
>>321734796
so its just 1% of autists or rich kids powering the game? thats crazy, i thought it would be a lot more split because of the nostalgia and how hard it gets at times. and im one of those autists....well glad you got coke money out of it. i take it pvz is still popcaps #1 priority?
>>321735165
That 1% are mostly those middle aged women, after their kids leave and they have a shit ton of disposable income to piss away. Most of it isn't even plants, it's gems and coins. Oh, and half of it is ad revenue.
PvZ is definitely getting some love. The third game is in the works, GW2 is coming, Heroes is coming, the comic is getting expanded and I even heard talk of a possible cartoon.
>>321715696
Did mobile ever even have a golden age? Last I checked they are still trying to escape the mobile equivalent of the Atari age of oversaturated shovelware. We will sadly never see a landfill full of unsold microtransactions, but the current business model is not going to last.
>>321735398
i seriously had no idea most of the following was from old moms. i always pictured kids being the main base and merchandise being in toys r us and shit. they were making a pvz3 before you left?
>>321735656
It's all true. 3 is going to be mobile too. Supposedly you might be able to keep plants and whatnot you bought in 2 but I very much doubt EA will allow that.
>>321735732
was there a release window? any more details or non mobile release? i liked playing plants 1 on pc and my 360.
>>321716235
Looks like something you'd see as filler to jackup the price for some shitty bundle on bundlestars.
>>321735857
Nope. I don't know anything about release date though I could probably find out.
Non-mobile release isn't gonna happen.
Maybe PvZ2 will get a port once the game's done, but don't count on it.
>>321731242
>You would rather buy a pumpkin spice latte a few times a week and enjoy it for a few minutes than buy a game that you can play as long as you would like
maybe they should get into foodservice instead of trying to serve bullshit then
>>321732063
man, remember that one shoot-em-up that came with the B/W Nokia phones?
Space Impact?
now I kind of miss that game
>>321735932
that sucks about the mobile part but its understandable. i just hope i dont have to upgrade phones for it. anyway thats awesome, thanks for the details. i didnt think there would even be a 3 since they keep adding worlds and events to 2. its probably at least 2 years away with all the support 2 is still getting. thanks for the inside info. see you on gw2 maybe m8?
>someone actually typed out "The Golden Age of mobile gaming" with a straight face
I'd laugh if I weren't crying
>>321735514
If articles like the one OP references are any indication they might be there already.
It's just that a small few are able to be wildly successful, while most die a quick death.
>>321716235
>one of the top comments
>why people buy this, get the mobile version here
My sides.
>>321735514
>Did mobile ever even have a golden age? Last I checked they are still trying to escape the mobile equivalent of the Atari age of oversaturated shovelware.
Every "mobile" game I've liked, had a PC version which I enjoyed much better. When I want to play a game, I'm gonna take 15 min to an hour to set aside and enjoy. I don't enjoy the games where you can just pop in for 5 minutes to play a level; that makes me think it's a time waster than an actual game, and if I'm wasting time on the go I'd rather check the news or something.
There are lots of PSP games I've enjoyed, but those were actually built as games and not time-wasters.
The only mobile game I've enjoyed is Space Team, but that's because it's a party game, which takes advantage of being on a smartphone (ie. your friends probably have a smartphone, so they can quickly jump right in).
>>321737037
The only mobile games I've really been playing have been Sonic Dash and Fallout Shelter, and really those games just remind me of how much more fun I'd be having if I was at home playing the real games on my PC.
This overrated dog shit.
It's not THAT BAD, but it is just a tribute to Earthbound that doesn't deserve any of the praise it gets. It's supposed to be quirky and one dimensinal, but thanks to MODERN ART, it was turned into something it doesn't deserve to be. As aspired to as any classic that set the standard for games to come.
What pisses me off most is that it keeps furthering the wave of low quality, pixelshit RPGmaker esque games with little to no creativity. I honestly miss when RPG maker was used to make actual GOOD and FUN games like all the horror games like The Witches House or ib
It just further poisons the already incredibly horrible indie game market and it sends a message to devs of higher budget games.
>>321737726
Wrong thread anon
>>321737726
>>321738465w-woops forgot pic
>>321716048
he has a shitty, old opinion.
Looking forward to the only reason for owning a ps4.
i own an xbone but i really wish i didnt. Forza 6 wasnt worth it. Especially when Project Cars came out.
Thank god this gamer gate nonsense is on page 10.
