It's almost as if when given the choice people prefer games without microtransactions, even if they're older and have fewer features/powerups etc.
I mean, sure, when given the choice, most people prefer "free" to "costs money".
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
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The owner of the gas station also sells crack cocaine on the side. The longer people stay to fill up their vehicle, the more likely it is they'll purchase some crack cocaine. Right now, most of their clientele fill up without leaving their car, but the ones with electric cars will stay for up to an hour. So, considering both the refueling business and the crack cocaine business, the best move is to rip up the gas pum…
You don't even need the sensationalist reference to crack — this is already plausible with gas stations being convenience stores (and sometimes much more).
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#44A wedge for developers looking to boost Linux: make small, quality games that distribution makers can be convinced to include. MicroSoft did this with Minesweeper and Solitaire, and far more people than you might think demanded Windows not because it could do the tasks they wanted, but because it had the simple recreations they desired and had grown used to. The best way to crowd out the ad-laden and micro-transactio…
I think the gaming market has changed significantly since Minesweeper and Solitaire were popular. Sure, it can be a nice quality of life boost to include some small games, but I don't think it would be a major draw to Linux. I believe the internet and mobile devices have largely filled this niche.
Ensuring existing AAA games run solidly on Linux, like Valve is working towards with Proton, seems to have a much greater impact.
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#45We need copyright reform for cases like this. In particular, copyright infringement damages should be capped at a small multiple of lost sales.
That way, when a copyrighted work goes of market (or is no longer sold at a reasonable mass-market rate), there would be no penalty for redistributing it.
(Derivative works might need to be handled differently, since the above effectively invalidates the GPL, though not Apache or BSD)
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#46They 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.
With movies, I find it to be the opposite. I might recognize the old movies as better in many ways, but their pacing is excruciatingly slow compared to modern movies. It takes a layer of appreciation to get through many of them.
That only speaks of how severely the attention span of the average person has plummeted in recent decades. It's impossible to sit through a movie without enough dopamine-inducing distractions or MTV-style jump cuts every few seconds.
Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#47They 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.
Movies probably not. But I wonder what would happen if a band like the Beatles ever showed up again. Would they suck the air out of the room? Would they get trapped on a five year tour after two albums? Would they get ignored?
You mean Taylor Swift?
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#48Huh, I would think ads and all the merchandise they sell would be enough.
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#49Re: Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
#50The announcement says it'll be renamed to "Red's First Flight" and be re-listed "pending further review".
I wonder if this is simply a rebranding so that the original no longer appears for "Angry Birds" searches in the app store. Namely that subsequent versions make more $ per install, and having the original at a low price point is cannibalizing sales of the newer more profitable titles.