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Re:Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real... by usaphp on Saturday March 23, 2019 @02:19PM (#19471615)
Well technically it takes less time and tesources to develop a short indie game vs a long game, so it’s reasonable that they will get more money. Also If a long game is boring nobody will play it longer than it’s worth
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Re:Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real... by zrm on Saturday March 23, 2019 @02:48PM (#19471759)
That's not true. It's trivial to create a game that will take arbitrarily long to win by just increasing the number of times the user has to perform the same task in order to advance.

That is a trade off against being boring, but having developers optimize games to explicitly be as time consuming as possible and just not-boring enough that you don't quit them in disgust is not really a helpful incentive.

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Re:Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real... by badsectoracula on Saturday March 23, 2019 @02:25PM (#19471648)
I see you do not know about JRPGs :-P.
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