Totally agreed. I used to love finding free/paid games when the app store first came out, but now I never even scroll through the app store because I know 99% of the games either have IAP or crazy amounts of ads... I don't mind paying a few dollars up front, but even a lot of the paid apps still have IAP which is beyond annoying. The only games I still play are ones that I downloaded years ago that have little to no ads and no IAP.
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Nintendo Asks Developer Partners to Cut Back on In-App Purchases for Fear of Tarnishing the Brand
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Totally agreed. I used to love finding free/paid games when the app store first came out, but now I never even scroll through the app store because I know 99% of the games either have IAP or crazy amounts of ads... I don't mind paying a few dollars up front, but even a lot of the paid apps still have IAP which is beyond annoying. The only games I still play are ones that I downloaded years ago that have little to no ads and no IAP.
I mean, this is all sweet and everything. But it's kind of rich coming from a company that makes you re-buy every Virtual Console purchase any time there's a new generation. Then, with the Switch, they've done away with Virtual Console altogether and linked legacy games (and only NES at the moment) to a yearly (though currently reasonable) subscription for online access. So, let's not go praising Nintendo's magnanimity too soon...
P.S. I do, however, really enjoy Super Mario Run. =)
P.S. I do, however, really enjoy Super Mario Run. =)
In App Purchases are a cancer in the mobile app market. Some time ago I downloaded a guitar tuner app which can tune my guitar in A440 on its free flavour, but I can subscribe by a monthly fee to get access to other tunings. Come on, a subscription plan for a guitar tuner?
Mobile gaming is helping to ruin gaming. Micro transactions were already starting to pop up, but it really came into full force with the mobile platform. Had they tried that with console or PC gamers, they would have had much more backlash and would probably have a slightly different landscape for the gaming industry today.
It’s Apple’s fault that they came up with the App Store that changed developer’s business practices? Why don’t we just blame Alexander Graham Bell for inventing the phone in the first place? We wouldn’t be here right now if it weren’t for him.
This is great. I played that new Harry Potter game on my iPhone and it is a total cash grab and unplayable without spending hundreds of dollars. Talk about tarnishing a brand.
Have to agree with Nintendo. Repetitive grinding and excessive IAPs have killed mobile phone and tablet gaming so Nintendo Switch will suffer the same fate unless they actively crack down on it. Still won't stop mobile PC AAA gaming from taking over.
Why would they need an awakening? They are making billions off of Free2Play. I hate the concept but lets not sit and pretend it isn't WAY more lucrative for companies.
In-app purchases (outside of purchasing the app itself from a demo version) should be banned entirely. It's a BS method of squeezing cash, and bait-and-switch at its worse. It's the digital version of shrinking grocery packaging sizes. Just charge more for the damn stuff up front.
I said "Activision Blizzard". The parent company of both Blizzard and Activision.
This would be a terrible business decision for them, which is why they haven’t done it. And good luck controlling those games on a touch screen.
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I doubt many people felt stabbed in the back about Miitomo. I honestly thought you were joking.
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To be fair they only charged a minimal upgrade fee for games you had on the Wii that you were adding to your Wii U, and they added save states.
I say this as a long time Nintendo fan and I admire Nintendo for many reasons: Let's not forget that they charge us for the same NES games (amongst others) every generation and still don't have an account-based games library. They're nickel-and-diming us on a whole new level.
Yes, but lucrative in a soul eating kind of way. Look at the way EA is being talked about here. The erosion in brand value over a few short years is remarkable.
There's a market for fair priced content, and I suspect it's a market that's separate from and underserved by the IAP driven market.
Yep.... If you can't take the rap, perhaps Nintendo shouldn't be on iOS. By pulling back on how much you can spend on another company, you are basically wanting to control your own system still, while a the same time wanting to please iOS users by making it available..
I can't believe the freemium model is working and people are accepting this IAP thing. I can't blame the developers.
Its hard to believe people are not willing to pay $20 for a game but willing to continually pay $1-2 every day forever to achieve anything in any game. In fact, the actual game is built around the strategy of buying stuff to progress in the game. For example, you won't be able to complete a level with out a "paid" weapon or wait obscene amount of real life time to achieve your next goal.
Its hard to believe people are not willing to pay $20 for a game but willing to continually pay $1-2 every day forever to achieve anything in any game. In fact, the actual game is built around the strategy of buying stuff to progress in the game. For example, you won't be able to complete a level with out a "paid" weapon or wait obscene amount of real life time to achieve your next goal.
