Why I don't play mobile games on my smartphone

Re:Why I don't play mobile games on my smartphone by nottorp on Sunday May 19, 2019 @06:35AM (#19952589)

I remember buying an iPad 1 and then buying a couple games. Back then you paid upfront and they were enjoyable.

Then everything became a free to play borefest so now I have almost no games on my mobile devices.

What's worse, I don't even try to discover mobile games worth playing any more. There probably are a few, especially on iOS, but the time needed to wade through the piles of free to play manure to find the occasional game where you pay upfront makes it simply not worth it.

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Re:Why I don't play mobile games on my smartphone by simonh on Sunday May 19, 2019 @08:06AM (#19952894)

It’s a real shame. There are some great pay-once games out there. XCOM, Monument Valley, Crashlands, Ittle Dew, but then you get some like Kingdom Rush that concert to P2W and get ruined. There’s no way to revert to an earlier better version either. So frustrating.

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Re:Why I don't play mobile games on my smartphone by nottorp on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:29AM (#19958441)

I remember when EA bought PopCap and converted my Bejeweled to free to play... support did give me some kind of code to convert my version back to the paid one but it only worked on one device. RIP PopCap.

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