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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!
by 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 agoMy 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 agoThrees 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 agoFor 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.