holy shit. I come here for some impressions and... there's like 2. and 6 pages about pissing about IAP. wouldn't it be better for the discussion to be moved to..... http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=52534&highlight=price+discussion I hate to revive it, but this thread needs some major cleaning.
There's already a thread to complain about IAP and this is not it guys! Get that discussion out of here. This is discussion for the game only.
4 pages of new posts, awesome. They f**king announced Tiny Towers would use the same pricing model as Pocket Frogs. Wow, what were you guys expecting? Shit, calm down.
What I find the most entertaining about IAP is some of the games that have options to buy like $99 worth of the in-game currency/items in a single transaction. Who is this stupid!?
Hahahaha I saw this in the smurfs game , they sold like 200 smurfberries for $65 I think I counldnt stop laughing as I deleted the game.
Amazingly enough there are people who will spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars a year on free to play games. I worked on a free to play PC game about 5 years ago, and there was one woman who I estimated to have spent about $5000 in about 5 years buying out all of the perm outfits just to have them all. And I don't think she was even wealthy - I think she was a single mother in college. Crazy huh?
Same deal with Playstation Home. Free to play with additional purchases... they're more or less all completely cosmetic but a few people have spent thousands obsessively collecting every last item.
There's tourist trap, places sold as beautiful or historic but most of the time they're not as good as advertised (hense the 'trap' bit even though it has a different meaning by itself) and there's landmines, and then, there's IAP. The latter being a combination of the two; fascinating to some and lethal to their wallet. Let's face it, those devs know how to manipulate kids and they know their demographics. Parents need to lock in app purchasing and adults need to just play other games that worth more of their time instead of watching digital things grow and pretend as though they are cute.
Introductory price of $2.99? The game looks great, but if sales aren't too great, watch this drop to $0.99 on 08/08/11.
Cheap bastards, you call yourself gamers? What kind of comments are these? "If sales arent too great and the price drops i will buy this". What does this says about you? Are you proud of yourself? If you like the game buy it, wether its 3 dollars or 1, and if the games fails its just because of your kind, cheap bastards
I think the key point here is they don't actually know if they like the game yet... if the reviews come back glowing maybe $2.99 won't seem too much to ask anymore.
yup, me too... the flash version totally sold me about a month ago when I first played it... I'm so excited about this one!!! =oD
Uh-oh there's a hero amongst us. Defender of All!! You don't even know if the game is worth $2.99.....why criticize people with honest opinions? On topic: the game looks great, I hope it plays great.
