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-went back to drinking their coffee and playing 2048, the free and open source game available on almost any platform.

• apetresc 12y ago
  Yup, when I ask the random guys at my coffee shop why they're playing 2048 instead of Threes, they just won't shut up about the awesome Linux support and open-sourced code!
• jaegerpicker 12y ago
  Right, and the designers/developers of threes! are making a living, even a pretty good living off of Threes! and no one is making anything off of 2048. Threes! is a better experience across the board and it is cross platform in it's intended form factors, it's available for iOS and Android.
  • Zikes 12y ago
    My point is, 2048 took off like wildfire because it's free and the majority of clones were forked from it. The last time the Threes vs 2048 debate was posted here, half the comments were "I never heard of Threes. I didn't even realize 2048 was based on another game."
    • jaegerpicker 12y ago
      Threes is a wildly successful game in it's own right, an Apple design award winner, currently 21 on the top paid Overall app store list, and at one point was in the top 5 in the top paid list. A lot of those users that half bought likely have never heard of 2048. This a good example of selection basis in affect. 2048 was wildly popular on HN but I have rarely seen it mentioned on other media sites, even mobile gaming focused outlets.
      • brazzy 12y ago
        For yet another possibly biased data point just like your own: some weeks ago I found myself sitting between two strangers playing 2048 in the subway.