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So, to be clear. He wants a game. A game that he knows is is fun and high quality. A game that Nana will enjoy for hours, hopefully months. And he wants it f
by corysama 13y ago
So, to be clear. He wants a game. A game that he knows is is fun and high quality. A game that Nana will enjoy for hours, hopefully months. And he wants it for free. Presumably with no ads. And, he already has exactly what he's hoping for except for one detail: he also want to hide all opportunities to give money to the creators of the game. But, without "breaking the fundamental experience" of the game.
Sounds to me like what he actually wants is to do the footwork (research effort) to find a high quality, pay-up-front game. And then pay for it, up front, so that Nana can enjoy the game without being confronted with iaps.
It is unfortunate that the vast majority of market apparently prefers instead to wade through 9 f2p games until settling on 1 that they like enough to pay into. That market environment makes it much harder to find a good game for Nana that does not involve iaps. I wish him luck in his search for that game.
But, as for hiding iaps in f2p games... I don't see how that is tenable in any way. Creating the game he wants requires a surprisingly large up-front and ongoing investment on the part of the creators. A major, if not the major, part of how the creators can expect to recoup their investment is in the opportunity to pitch you on iaps. Disabling that pitch changes the business model to "I'll pay them when I'm compelled by overwhelming guilt/appreciation". That's an incredibly idealistic business model which even the world-class awesomeness of Wikipedia has difficultly maintaining. Frankly, I doubt that any of the games he enjoys would survive it.
- girvo 13y agoThats... well, that's not what I got from it. He paid for some of the IAPs in the game, but if those developers are monetising it correctly there will be dozens of other ways to buy more IAPs Do you have kids? I don't, but I'm very close to my 5 and 2 year old cousins. My Aunty would love to be able to turn off IAP, temporarily, for a session so the kids can play and not worry. You can do that sort of already, but the buttons and UI being hidden would make it better. Also, I've bought games, expensive ones, that have even more IAP in them that I won't be purchasing. This is not just free games we are talking about.
- joosters 13y agoHe doesn't demand free. In the TFA he states that he bought some of these games, and purchased in-app stuff in some of the others. He just wants control of spending. Doesn't seem like too much to ask for.