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I tried to get my young son into original Angry Birds, thinking it would be a nice simple physics lesson for him, but it has become absolutely unnavigateable fo

I tried to get my young son into original Angry Birds, thinking it would be a nice simple physics lesson for him, but it has become absolutely unnavigateable for his age level. So many pop up special offers for magic birds to solve the level, cut scene product placement, and other in game purchases, that I can't trust those games to not get him lost in a maze of advertising bullcrap. I paid for this game, a kids game I thought, why can't I just enjoy it with my son?

avgDev 8y ago
Basically, everyone that makes games now knows how insanely lucrative it can be. I am not sure if this is caused by sales/marketing/executives but games now can generate massive cash. Many games now offer micro-transactions, casino style loot crates where you can open them by buying keys to have a chance of wining something. Even I bought a few things in games. However, many others young or old drop massive amount of cash on some games. My uncle drops thousands of dollar in world of tanks(or whatever it is called) to have the best tank. Plus, those game can create gambling addiction in kids, I think it is quite sad.
- OscarTheGrinch 8y ago
  Oh man, sorry for your uncle blowing that amount! Speaking of training kids to gamble, I'm gonna thread jack with a public service announcement, please avoid letting your kids see any "Surprise Egg" videos all costs. I downloaded "you-tube kids", their supposedly safe curated experience, and almost half of the recommended videos on a completely clean user install was this moronic kiddy click bait that turns youngsters into drooling dopamine rinsed zombies, primed for our loot-box overlords. Un-install, go play outside. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-minds/201703/welcome-the-madness-and-mystery-surprise-egg-videos https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-minds/201703/...
scarface74 8y ago
And it wasn’t that bad before. The difference between the original Angry Birds and Angry Birds Go with all of the in app purchases is stark.
- Avamander 8y ago
  Just like they crapped all over Plants vs. Zombies 1 and 2 Android versions. PvZ1 Android version ran beautifully on a 600MHz ARMv6 Android phone but they updated it, to include ads if I remember correctly. PvZ2 is just microtransactions on top of microtransactions, horrible mangling of the original game.
zanny 8y ago
Meanwhile Amazon got rid of the Underground Apps program that made available many mobile "staple" games without ads.

avgDev 8y ago

Basically, everyone that makes games now knows how insanely lucrative it can be. I am not sure if this is caused by sales/marketing/executives but games now can generate massive cash. Many games now offer micro-transactions, casino style loot crates where you can open them by buying keys to have a chance of wining something. Even I bought a few things in games. However, many others young or old drop massive amount of cash on some games. My uncle drops thousands of dollar in world of tanks(or whatever it is called) to have the best tank. Plus, those game can create gambling addiction in kids, I think it is quite sad.

OscarTheGrinch 8y ago
Oh man, sorry for your uncle blowing that amount! Speaking of training kids to gamble, I'm gonna thread jack with a public service announcement, please avoid letting your kids see any "Surprise Egg" videos all costs. I downloaded "you-tube kids", their supposedly safe curated experience, and almost half of the recommended videos on a completely clean user install was this moronic kiddy click bait that turns youngsters into drooling dopamine rinsed zombies, primed for our loot-box overlords. Un-install, go play outside. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-minds/201703/welcome-the-madness-and-mystery-surprise-egg-videos https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-minds/201703/...

scarface74 8y ago

And it wasn’t that bad before. The difference between the original Angry Birds and Angry Birds Go with all of the in app purchases is stark.

Avamander 8y ago
Just like they crapped all over Plants vs. Zombies 1 and 2 Android versions. PvZ1 Android version ran beautifully on a 600MHz ARMv6 Android phone but they updated it, to include ads if I remember correctly. PvZ2 is just microtransactions on top of microtransactions, horrible mangling of the original game.

zanny 8y ago

Meanwhile Amazon got rid of the Underground Apps program that made available many mobile "staple" games without ads.