What the Heck Happened to Mobile Gaming?

What the Heck Happened to Mobile Gaming? | Extra Punctuation

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This week on Extra Punctuation, Yahtzee discusses how indie hit Unpacking was mercilessly ripped off and cloned and how it is reflective of larger, horrendous trends in the mobile gaming sphere.
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@alldayagain 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when Yahtzee once unironically said something along the lines of "The mobile gaming market is the only place you see variety anymore" back when he reviewed Angry Birds and Cut the Rope

@JimJava007 2 жыл бұрын

The more time goes on, the less I'm joking when I say microtransactions should be outlawed.

@Shadowfax1804 2 жыл бұрын

The irony (to my mind) is how phone and tablet makers celebrate how the latest mobile chips can offer 'console level performance' - yet the games themselves are... well not console level games. It amuses and frustrates me in equal measure.

@sophiavechnyak6763 2 жыл бұрын

I loved finding apps and games 10 years ago and I recently tried Apple Arcade and many of the games are the same ones as 10 years ago

@wiiu42 2 жыл бұрын

"The line between fertile ground and compost heap only gets thinner over time." Damn, that's a good line.

@MichaelPohoreski 2 жыл бұрын

There is a presentation called

@RoastJak 2 жыл бұрын

What's really sad is that as Yahtzee was making all these valid points I was still thinking, "that color sorting looks like fun"

@panda_instinct 2 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the focus on the "clone games" side of the mobile market. People tend to rage at the gachas and other kinds of heavily monetized games, and everyone and their mums have already talked about it ad-nauseum (honestly for good reason) but this side mostly gets overlooked, maybe because these ripoffs are not the ones making headlines that they are raking millions.

@illCMAC 2 жыл бұрын

It would be wonderful if Escapist employed someone to specifically play mobile games with a price tag in the app stores. I bet there are some good games that aren't free to play but I'll never know.

@AroAceGamer 2 жыл бұрын

What about those terrible games that commit the unforgivable sin of False Advertising?

@sunlitsonata6853 2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised this video went the entire time without talking about Gacha, the trend of tricking people into playing a normal game (especially one based on a popular/lucrative IP like say, Simpsons or Fate/stay Night) and then creating constant progression roadblocks and multiple different currencies to convince people to spend hundreds on a single phone game. Once companies realized that could be the profit model it prevented most traditional games from ever rising to greatness again.

@bird3713 2 жыл бұрын

I'll never forget what made me buy The Banner Saga on my iPhone - at the time, the game was selling for the astronomical price of $10. The creator of the game said in an interview "People ask me why the app costs so much when other games on the App Store are $5, $1, or even free. I tell them that it's because our game is a $10 game".

@pitzo5555 2 жыл бұрын

I hate those ads that trick you into thinking that you can play the ad

@justinrodriguez5957 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when people thought mobile gaming was going to erase handheld gaming and I would state that the core audience between the two designs are, while occasionally overlapping, vastly different.

@anythinggggg 2 жыл бұрын

If you look at the number of phone games that have made more money than the highest grossing movie of all time, there are EIGHTEEN of them. The top one has made 4.5x more than Avatar. And yet these eighteen games have failed to really create recognizable intellectual properties.

@DestructivelyPhased 2 жыл бұрын

“The smart miners have already cashed in and pissed off”.

@corkydouglas 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a backend developer working on a mobile game and I'm happy to say that we aren't making a no-effort ripoff of another game. Creating original content is really expensive... it takes a team of dozens to pull off, and quite a long time.

@vgamesx1 2 жыл бұрын

This makes me very much miss the early to mid 2000s, who doesn't remember playing those free flash games from time to time, occasionally even in your free time during class? Not all of them were great, but many of them were reasonably compelling for short 10-90 minute bites to pass the time, now we have 500,000 clones of literal time-wasting games that offer little to no compelling gameplay and next to zero progression unless you pay money or spend 3 years of your life grinding away at it, hurray for mobile gaming in 2022!

@madspet9106 2 жыл бұрын

I think some of my favorite mobile games were the Infinity Blade series. The mechanics of combat were simple but fun, and the games had a story and world that they built up, with lots of cool character and environment designs. I wish those games were still available in the app store