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And I am seriously baffled how can anyone treat this area of gaming seriously or think that this is what the future of gaming looks like.
The most ambitious phone/tablet games are ports of old PC or console games, with simplified gameplay because touchscreens were not designed for gaming of any sort so anything more difficult than dragging an icon across the screen is a fucking tedious chore. Games that were designed exclusively for mobile devices are about as complex as a shape-matching game for 3 year old children with severe learning disabilities. If you look at the top selling games on Google Play or Apple's appstore, you'll notice only shit like Angry Birds which cannot entertain anyone with more than a handful of brain cells for more than three seconds. Gameplay consisting of clicking on icons or drawing lines with your finger can only offer so much.
And the worst part is that it's riddled with useless clones and other 'apps' that try to cash in on popularity of the flavour of the month - I'm talking about 'minecraft cheats app', 'floppy bird fan app', 'annoyed avians wallpaper' etc; the only purpose of those is displaying advertisement banners to disinterested people who download this accidentally and install a bunch of spyware, toolbars, adware and so on.
Take a look at this: http://www.reskinningapps.com/ . Here we have a dude that claims to create 60 'reskins' per month; that's 2 a day for the slower codexians. This practice basically consists of changing textures in a game and selling it as a new product to gullible idiots. Apparently this is a profitable business, since this is so widespread on app markets.
Now I'm aware that most of you probably knew about this stuff anyway, but I wanted to vent off some rage and it's always good to have a thread where we can all complain about something.
The most ambitious phone/tablet games are ports of old PC or console games, with simplified gameplay because touchscreens were not designed for gaming of any sort so anything more difficult than dragging an icon across the screen is a fucking tedious chore. Games that were designed exclusively for mobile devices are about as complex as a shape-matching game for 3 year old children with severe learning disabilities. If you look at the top selling games on Google Play or Apple's appstore, you'll notice only shit like Angry Birds which cannot entertain anyone with more than a handful of brain cells for more than three seconds. Gameplay consisting of clicking on icons or drawing lines with your finger can only offer so much.
And the worst part is that it's riddled with useless clones and other 'apps' that try to cash in on popularity of the flavour of the month - I'm talking about 'minecraft cheats app', 'floppy bird fan app', 'annoyed avians wallpaper' etc; the only purpose of those is displaying advertisement banners to disinterested people who download this accidentally and install a bunch of spyware, toolbars, adware and so on.
Take a look at this: http://www.reskinningapps.com/ . Here we have a dude that claims to create 60 'reskins' per month; that's 2 a day for the slower codexians. This practice basically consists of changing textures in a game and selling it as a new product to gullible idiots. Apparently this is a profitable business, since this is so widespread on app markets.
Now I'm aware that most of you probably knew about this stuff anyway, but I wanted to vent off some rage and it's always good to have a thread where we can all complain about something.