They can't compete with what they once were, so they bury the past. I suspect many industries are like this. If classic movies were played alongside new Hollywood releases, the new movies would probably be choked out. Accordingly, Disney will even restrict the availability of their old movies on DVD. They can't stand competing with their former great selves.
Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
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Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#12I saw the same thing happen with Tetris. It was first released when the App Store came out. It was 99 cents and no ads.
It kept working and being available through the 32 bit era. But was never updated for larger screens and was replaced with an ad ridden version.
Plants vs Zombies 2 was also much worse than the original because of ads and in app purchases.
That being said, they did “bring back” Angry Birds Classic to iOS as a one time 99 cents purchase.
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#13They can't compete with what they once were, so they bury the past. I suspect many industries are like this. If classic movies were played alongside new Hollywood releases, the new movies would probably be choked out. Accordingly, Disney will even restrict the availability of their old movies on DVD. They can't stand competing with their former great selves.
Yea.
Google actively forgets everything in order to encourage new content and paying customers.
Not to mention, many products hit their peak of usability, and then the publishers go ahead and make it a little worse each year just so some product person can look like they did something.
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#14Well... no surprise. It's the classic version, and you can buy it for $0.99 and have all the content, all the powerups, and none of the ads. Too good a deal for 2023.
If a gas station finds they can't sell gas at $2 per gallon, they could rip out the gas tanks and stop selling gas or they could raise the price to whatever is profitable. I'm not understanding the business logic of removing the game.
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Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#15Well... no surprise. It's the classic version, and you can buy it for $0.99 and have all the content, all the powerups, and none of the ads. Too good a deal for 2023.
If a gas station finds they can't sell gas at $2 per gallon, they could rip out the gas tanks and stop selling gas or they could raise the price to whatever is profitable. I'm not understanding the business logic of removing the game.
It's not a simple matter of the organization making the most rational decision for the interests of the organization. Individuals throughout the organization have an incentive to suppress past products to make newer products, and by extension themselves and their own careers, look better in comparison. Organizations can behave irrationally when the constituent members of the organization have incentives that puts them at odds with the rational interests of the organization itself.
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#16Well... no surprise. It's the classic version, and you can buy it for $0.99 and have all the content, all the powerups, and none of the ads. Too good a deal for 2023.
Tbf, it's not the original version - it's specifically the "Rovio Classic: Angry Birds" which is a remake of the original, using their newer engine - and yes, it has ads already integrated. The original version(released 2009!) has been delisted long long time ago.
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#17The "New" angry birds are barely playable and even the "Angry Birds Classic" seem to be much worse than the ones I had on my N900 a decade ago. But the new ones are just a piece of crap where the actual gameplay occupies the 5% of overall UI and the level design is boring as hell (levels look like somebody vomited them on the screen). It is basically how they put their child on altar and sacrificed it to Mammon. I wa…
I hear you. My suggestion is to find an old Kindle Fire HDX 7". It's a 7" Android 4.2.2 with great performance; you can get APKs of all your old favorite games from nearly shady sources and play them as they were in their glory days, before everything started breaking. Mobile gaming was once something great.
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#18Refreshingly honest reasoning, at least.
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#19Well... no surprise. It's the classic version, and you can buy it for $0.99 and have all the content, all the powerups, and none of the ads. Too good a deal for 2023.
If a gas station finds they can't sell gas at $2 per gallon, they could rip out the gas tanks and stop selling gas or they could raise the price to whatever is profitable. I'm not understanding the business logic of removing the game.
What if a gas station finds that people keep fueling up and then driving off -- the customers don't seem to want to plaster their cars with bumper stickers related to the advertisers who are paying extra to the gas station and they don't seem to want to use the fuel "filter" that requires you to put a small extra charge on your credit card every few miles or the fuel won't move from the tank to the engine?
For the sake of profitability, I could imagine the gas station might choose to stop selling gas through pumps since those simply couldn't be as profitable.
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#20Well... no surprise. It's the classic version, and you can buy it for $0.99 and have all the content, all the powerups, and none of the ads. Too good a deal for 2023.
If a gas station finds they can't sell gas at $2 per gallon, they could rip out the gas tanks and stop selling gas or they could raise the price to whatever is profitable. I'm not understanding the business logic of removing the game.
Yeah, sounds like they could have just raised the price of the original. But I guess they are convinced that this would still cannibalise their other offerings, which I suppose monetise better.
So it's more like you having two gas stations next to each other - one with a price per gallon and nothing else, one with a more confusing user experience that yields more dollars per gallon of fuel than a fixed price.