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Re:Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on... by blader on Thursday January 15, 2009 @12:15PM (#435339)
Making something people want?
Re:Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on... by ivankirigin on Thursday January 15, 2009 @01:03PM (#435424)
Good point. If people make money by selling games, that's awesome.

But personally, I don't respect this kind of game. There are a lot more interesting games to be made for the platform.

That's probably why I posted a dig. I like clean arcade games like iilwy, stories with depth (e.g. oblivion), and things that get me excited like zombies and FPS. For me, most social games on facebook are a whole world of "who gives a fuck?". No offense.

Let me stress that they are fine businesses, just not my kind of game.

Re:Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on... by gabrielleydon on Thursday January 15, 2009 @03:51PM (#435707)
yeah lets work on something that matters like mailing in twitter posts...
Re:Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on... by blader on Thursday January 15, 2009 @04:08PM (#435731)
Ahahaha. Touche.
Re:Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on... by ivankirigin on Thursday January 15, 2009 @08:11PM (#436015)
hahaha!
Re:Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on... by webwright on Thursday January 15, 2009 @07:04PM (#435946)
Interesting problems and apps that try to change the world rarely intersect with things that have a high profit-per-effort ratio... Projects like this have a much higher probability of making a tidy profit and probably not much of a chance of making enough money to fund space travel. Nothing wrong with that.

I personally don't like a lot of popular software (from FB apps to MySpace to Flash games), but engineering for the masses clearly works.

Re:Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on... by blader on Thursday January 15, 2009 @03:24PM (#435661)
No offense taken at all. Different strokes for different folks.