Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone

Re:Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my p... by drzaiusapelord on Thursday April 28, 2016 @12:02PM (#11589833)

Exceptions don't disprove the general trend. Its pretty disingenious to find small exceptions and pretend they're the standard.

The reality is that app store discoverability is terrible and p2w and other freemium games dominate sales. These types of sales demotivate devs and publishers from treating the mobile world like consoles or PC, where very good games exist and are easily found. This is a solved problem almost everywhere else? Why is it such a massive problem on mobile? When HN-level people are asking "Geez where are the good games," then you have a problem. If they're struggling then Joe User absolutely is.

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Re:Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my p... by pavel_lishin on Thursday April 28, 2016 @12:09PM (#11589878)

Discoverability is terrible, but so was the "chess table in a casino" analogy. You don't look for a chess game by randomly wandering around a casino, and you don't look for quality games by randomly going through the app store.

You're right that there's a problem there, but while it's a problem that ideally needs solving, solutions do exist, and so do quality games.

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Re:Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my p... by st3v3r on Thursday April 28, 2016 @02:14PM (#11590833)

Those aren't exceptions, though. Those are easily available. You're just too lazy to look for Touch Arcade.

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