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Settlers was pretty damn fun, but there haven't been many that I would call AAA hits for the iPhone, despite having purchased something north of $500 worth of g

Settlers was pretty damn fun, but there haven't been many that I would call AAA hits for the iPhone, despite having purchased something north of $500 worth of games for iOS in the last five years. Maybe a handful that got me as excited as Settlers did. In general, people don't make fun "deep" games for the iPhone, they make them for the Console/PC. Any studio making something fun and free for the iPhone is probably more interested in extracting $$$ as quickly as possible from you, particular where you see the dreaded IAP. I'll try out Clash of Clans and see if it falls into that dreaded _suck the player in and force him to pay cash_. I suspect there will be Gems that I have to drop $$$ into in order to speed up building things instead of waiting 30 minutes. We'll see. [Edit: 3 minutes later. Installed it. You need Gems to finish building things in reasonable (<5 minutes, in the case of a Gold storage, 30 minutes. ) time. My guess is the entire purpose of this game is to suck me in to the point at which I start shoveling money for IAP - doesn't this pattern annoy people? Or is it just because they haven't seen it dozens (hundreds?) of times before? I'll play with it for another 10 minutes, but so far, the game pattern looks pretty straight forward and not particularly entertaining or engrossing. I'll try and keep an open mind.] [Edit 2: I'm sorry - I lasted all of 5 minutes with this thing. Buy Gems. Speed up Building. You can even use Gems to Acquire more "Gold" or more "Elixir" - they don't even attempt to hide the mechanics of cash extraction. It's almost a straightforward "Give us Cash and you can build things really fast and go attack others and win." Probably the shortest time any game has ever lasted on my iPhone, ever. I'm confused as to what fun people see in this...]

masklinn 14y ago
> I'm confused as to what fun people see in this... Maybe they treat it as an asynchronous game, closer to academy of heroes or outwitters than to starcraft? That's what I do anyway: look up my options, queue up a few actions, then go do stuff, check back a few hours later. That's how I tend to play on my phone anyway, so it works nicely, and while it's explicit about the gem things it doesn't bash you over the head with it, and you can get gems through achievements.

masklinn 14y ago

> I'm confused as to what fun people see in this... Maybe they treat it as an asynchronous game, closer to academy of heroes or outwitters than to starcraft? That's what I do anyway: look up my options, queue up a few actions, then go do stuff, check back a few hours later. That's how I tend to play on my phone anyway, so it works nicely, and while it's explicit about the gem things it doesn't bash you over the head with it, and you can get gems through achievements.