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For me, playing mobile games is essentially like playing Slot machines. Its this reason i don't let me kids play games on their mobile device. It makes more se

For me, playing mobile games is essentially like playing Slot machines. Its this reason i don't let me kids play games on their mobile device. It makes more sense just buying a Switch, which allows more interactive play with people, more coop and time limits without the feeling their is a slot machine effect happening

ntSean 9y ago
Thats a very broad statement, there are a lot of great mobile games that aren't slot machines - even some from Nintendo. Mario Run, Threes, Alto's Adventure, SPL-T, Reigns, Leap Day - phew, and thats off the top of my head; there's a lot of choice on the App Store.
- makecheck 9y ago
  The real problem is that the App Store provides no search filters of any kind and nearly-useless browsing. If you could simply say “show me only games with no slot machines”, the experience would be so much better.
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- croon 9y ago
  While I loved Alto's Adventure (and some more of those), and it was by no means aggregious, it does include things like watching ads to continue your run (at least once), and other microtransactions. I don't think I'm a reactionary, and this is a problem on consoles and PC as well, but there is a lot of difference between mobile games and games where you buy an entire experience and everything relevant is designed into that system. Nothing is gated, you can make it easier through a difficulty setting, you can't make it easier by paying extra dollars. Note that I avoid anything last 5 years EA and similar that can't for the life of them design games that respect their customers.
raguuu 9y ago
Major thing that pissed me off recently: My kid likes to play solitaire. on one Windows 10 machine I see him opening the game and an freaking AD pops up. It made me angry. To my surprise the ad was for a slot game on Windows store. I tell him to open the ad and the game is literally a casino, where you buy "credit", so you won't play for money. This really pissed me off that Microsoft is pushing casino ads on my machine where I have paid for the licence. I have given thousands of euros through my life for Microsoft with licence fees. I wanted to literally shake someone high up on Microsoft for allowing to push casino for my child.
knolan 9y ago
Spacechem was the best game I've ever played on an iPad, it suited the form factor perfectly. It's a real shame Zactronics dropped support for iOS [0]. FTL also works well and the touch controls are reminiscent of Star Trek's. There's some real gems in the mobile space and more and more real games are migrating over. Nintendo of course have stomped all over the entire industry with some exceptional hardware and games this past year. [0] https://twitter.com/zachtronics/status/658428388432982016 https://twitter.com/zachtronics/status/658428388432982016

ntSean 9y ago

Thats a very broad statement, there are a lot of great mobile games that aren't slot machines - even some from Nintendo. Mario Run, Threes, Alto's Adventure, SPL-T, Reigns, Leap Day - phew, and thats off the top of my head; there's a lot of choice on the App Store.

makecheck 9y ago
The real problem is that the App Store provides no search filters of any kind and nearly-useless browsing. If you could simply say “show me only games with no slot machines”, the experience would be so much better.
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croon 9y ago
While I loved Alto's Adventure (and some more of those), and it was by no means aggregious, it does include things like watching ads to continue your run (at least once), and other microtransactions. I don't think I'm a reactionary, and this is a problem on consoles and PC as well, but there is a lot of difference between mobile games and games where you buy an entire experience and everything relevant is designed into that system. Nothing is gated, you can make it easier through a difficulty setting, you can't make it easier by paying extra dollars. Note that I avoid anything last 5 years EA and similar that can't for the life of them design games that respect their customers.

raguuu 9y ago

Major thing that pissed me off recently: My kid likes to play solitaire. on one Windows 10 machine I see him opening the game and an freaking AD pops up. It made me angry. To my surprise the ad was for a slot game on Windows store. I tell him to open the ad and the game is literally a casino, where you buy "credit", so you won't play for money. This really pissed me off that Microsoft is pushing casino ads on my machine where I have paid for the licence. I have given thousands of euros through my life for Microsoft with licence fees. I wanted to literally shake someone high up on Microsoft for allowing to push casino for my child.

knolan 9y ago

Spacechem was the best game I've ever played on an iPad, it suited the form factor perfectly. It's a real shame Zactronics dropped support for iOS [0]. FTL also works well and the touch controls are reminiscent of Star Trek's. There's some real gems in the mobile space and more and more real games are migrating over. Nintendo of course have stomped all over the entire industry with some exceptional hardware and games this past year. [0] https://twitter.com/zachtronics/status/658428388432982016 https://twitter.com/zachtronics/status/658428388432982016