>Rovio removes Angry Birds 1
>people get mad and ask for it ro return
>Rovio finally brings it back as a paid game
>ton of people buy it and enjoy it, big success
>Rovio realizes microtransactions sales on their newer games are significantly decreasing because people would rather spend once for a fun and complete game than buying microtransactions for shittier titles
>they remove Angry Birds 1 again
>https://twitter.com/Rovio/status/1627956351002443778
Fricking israelites lol
I mean, they are literally about to get bought by a Tel Aviv-based company
no refunds goys KEK
The plural of goy is goyim.
>no refunds
Well yeah the game is still fully playable for those who already bought it. This isn't like when gacha games shut down and the whales lose access to their precious waifu jpegs.
>Well yeah the game is still fully playable
It means it's not downloadable from the store, which means even if you own it you can't otherwise play it if you ever get a new phone, have deleted it to save space, or just haven't downloaded it yet. 0 Support, 0 downloads, if you ever need to repair the game or it gets a bug you simply can't play it.
Of course you could just download the apk for free but that's technically illegal.
Angry birds is shit but this happened to me with the shadowrun games. I didn't have them all downloaded at the same time, then overnight removed from the store. No refund, no chance to play, go frick yourself.
why are you calling others goys?
are you israeli?
mobile shitters deserve it
This. You can install an emulator and play games that are 100 times better than the slop available on the israeliteggle play store and still gentiles buy that crap.
Playing emulated games on your phone is dogshit because they're made with physical buttons in mind. The only exception are heavily touch screen based DS games like phoenix wright, which are actually better on phones because modern phone touch screens are a lot better than the DS touch screen.
strategy/turn based games can be played on a phone or a tablet with no issue
There are gamepads made for phones these days
>Playing emulated games on your phone is dogshit because they're made with physical buttons in mind.
Two words: s k i l l i s s u e
Only normies and homosexuals can't handle touch buttons in something as simple as Super Mario
>s k i l l i s s u e
>normies
back to twitter, Black person
moronic company, should just add more MTX and gacha into the game.
>this game is successful
>better remove it
Imagine Angry Birds but with sexy anime girls and weekly ranked mission bullshit
That already exists
It's called flying princess interbreed
For me it was doodle jump, fruit ninja and angry birds. Also the drop the lolly game was fantastic too.
I only have chess on my phone now cuz the app store is full of MTXslop
I don't think I've ever seen a brand being overcommercialized as hard as Angry Birds was. Pushing merchandise is understandable, but Rovio tried to build entire product empire around those fricking birds, and as the fad started to decisively turn over and public interest faded after the movies, they went in full panic mode after they suddenly weren't generating increasing profits anymore and still don't know how to replicate that succces.
I liked the pig vehicle building game they made
Is that a fricking angry birds store?
Yes. As I said, they had zero brakes in commercialization.
Angry Birds nowadays feels like such a weird brand where it teeters between the realm of somewhat popular and irrelevant. better explains this phenomenon.
It's like browser based kid games in the mid-2000's. Becoming the big fish in the small pond and then growth ceasing there because they fail to realize there's no legitimate interest in the brand, just broke kids spending their allowance.
How is the Vita version?
the only game i ever bought on my phone was radical fishing.
when it was delisted, i wasn't able to download it again.
never give money to google
Could you imagine if a PC store tried to pull that shit of making you unable to download delisted games you've brought, insane
some pc stores have died from time to time
no refunds
Well yeah the entire store dying is one thing but dong it on an active store is another thing entirely
What are you talking about? You can download apps you once had installed from Google Play even if they are delisted
Then why does the statement in OP say downloaded instead of purchased
oh really, didn't know they do that seeing I can still download every angry birds game i played years ago
Not always, depends on how anal they are going on about it. They can potentially make it not downloadable even if you payed for it
>remove Angry Birds.
>Make customers angry.
It's like poetry.
i genuinely feel bad for the zoomers who grew up on this goyslop
Early phone games were great. Although most zoomers are probably too young for those.
>tfw Doom RPG is forgotten
There was a short period between about 2008 and 2012 when mobile gaming was perfectly fine. Simple little games that worked on a phone and only cost a couple dollars with no microtransactions. Once things like energy meters started appearing it was dead completely.
The real golden era of phone games was a very short lived period when phones were starting to become more powerful but smartphones hadn't reached the mainstream just yet. During that time java games had become advanced enough that they went from $3 short games to much higher quality full games that almost resembled something you'd see on a GBA (although with terrible controls, of course).
Maybe the real angry birds were the friends we made along the way.
is MXT in west dying ?
Shit like this is why mobile games will never be retro.
Has there ever been a mobile exclusive game that wasn't a port of a classic retro game that didn't have microtransactions?
Space Marshals 1-3 I think. They're twin stick shooters and the only IAP in them was to unlock the full game.
uhhhh angry birds?
Angry birds is nothing but a reskin of castle crashers. Since the game came out as a flash game first and then got plagiarized by Rovio I don't consider Angry birds a game. The game is called Castle Crashers. A reskin is not a game, it's a mod someone built from scratch. Since Rovio stole the game it can't be called a remake either.
wat
Apologies, I meant "Crush the Castle!"
Castle Crashers.... the sidescrolling 4 player beat-em-up?
He means Crush the Castle, I'm sure.
All apple arcade games have no microtransactions
Most of them during the early days. Fruit ninja, angry birds, cut the rope etc. were all without micro transactions originally.
>mobile exclusive game
Any worthwhile mobile game eventually gets ported to an actual gaming platform, be it PC, console, or handheld. Nowadays, they launch simultaneously.
there are some games that run purely off of banner ads at the top/bottom of the screen like touhou anamnesis. they're very few and far between but if you dig hard enough you can find a gem or two
WitchSpring series, Chaos Rings series, Minute Dungeon series, Fantasian (and other Apple Arcade games with exclusivity deals, I guess).
WS got two remakes on Steam, but WS2 and 4 are mobile exclusive.
Old java games.
>Heroes Lore: Wind of Soltia
Good old days
Several, homie
Monument Valley
I was tempted to say Pocket God but the more I thought about it the more I realized it was just a reskin of Interactive Buddy.
if you have ever spent money on a mobile game you might actually be moronic
I have unironically spent over $300 on Hero Wars.
I did spend 15 dollars on Archero because I used to play it all day for a very long time.
Those fricking idiots had the world in their hand with Angry Bird and fricked it all up.
Angry Birds was always going to be a fad, like Troll dolls. I would say it could get a new lease on life when the zoomers who played it as children start havbing children of their own, but they're all gays so that's probably not going to happen.
I appreciate how honest they are about this. I would have expected they'd try to spin it as some perverse positive for the players.
This is their second time removing the games, they probably figure the same trick won't work twice
https://web.archive.org/web/20210306024615/https://support.rovio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042909613-I-can-t-find-Angry-Birds-Classic-in-my-app-store-anymore-what-s-up-with-that
>2023
>He still hates mobile games
Shiggy diggy don't you guys have phones?
Thank goodness for sideloading.
Remember infinity blade?
I remember being blown away by the fact that a mobile could render such a thing back in the day.
I remember it looking way better than that.
That looks like an Ogre from Dragon Age.
Mobile gaming was the worst fricking thing to happen to gaming PERIOD.
>singlehandled normalizes paying $$$$$ after you buy/download a game in microtransactions (the MTX is so costly the free/paid argument ends up irrelevant)
>everything that used to be a fun/challenging/hardcore unlock is now a paid cosmetic
>games become supremely casualised
>"""retention"""(Read: Addiction) mechanics in fricking everything so that you don't want to stop playing the product for arbitrary reasons, not gameplay related
>average skill of "gamers" plummets through the floor because of kids who have only ever played games that literally play themselves, clicking simulators, roblox and other glorified advertisement simulators
It's hell, and the fact that no government has meaningfully told these scamming hyenas to frick off with their shit is woeful.
Korea did most of that decades ago, same with social RPGs on browsers normalizing bad ideas for casuals and tactics like Blizzard's "streamline old idea and sell as a new idea" game design.
The current state of mobile games is just the end product of the new industry standards set by forgotten pioneers.
when mobile gaming first came out, the games were totally normie, cost like $10, etc. Then some israelite realized that sales exploded expoentially when they dropped the price so the price kept dropping to $0. Then some other israelite realized that they could hire a bunch of psychologists to design a monetization scheme to get people addicted, and here we are.
>Then some other israelite realized that they could hire a bunch of psychologists
The fact that game companies hire not just 1, but often times upward of 1000 psychologists just goes to show you how fricked up the games industry is. It's no different than casinos at this point, everything's designed to milk as much money as possible and create addicts out of players.
>everything's designed to milk as much money as possible and create addicts out of players
I hate this shit, even in non-mobile games. I remember playing MGSV:GZ and enjoying it, then MGSV:TPP came out and they had all these fricking mobile game tactics even though there was no microtransactions. I felt so disgusted by it I returned the game the next day and refused to buy anything made by Konami ever again.
How can anybody find this shit enjoyable or worse, spend real money on it?
>the one person on earth without a gambling addiction
You are not immune to propaganda. Something will get you hooked one day.
You're projecting your own failings onto others. Plenty of people hate gambling and the micromanagement sims that are most mobile games aren't even gambling, they're just a boring time and money sink.
>Plenty of people hate gambling
You just haven't gotten the itch yet. It will happen to you. You might get lucky and win and therefore be able to live a regular life or you might lose it all and scratch $2 lottery tickets for the rest of your life trying to regain what you lost.
Nobody is immune to gambling addiction.
>you might lose it all and scratch $2 lottery tickets for the rest of your life
Not him but
If you have to have an addiction why not try weed? It's what I'm doing so I don't become an alcoholic or a prisoner (Still illegal where I'm from but I don't care about that)
Weed is a lot more fun to do nightly than gambling.
cant you just download the old .apk?
This. iToddlers BTFO!
except not really because as they say it's still on the app store just with a different name
finally brings it back as a paid game
With a fraction of the levels
Shit I missed that they brought it back? Frick me. The original run of Angry Birds was amazing.
Well you have one more day to get it before it's nuked
Just checked it out. I still want angry birds space and angry birds star wars. All those spin offs and other games were fun as frick too.
And Angry Birds seasons. I want that.
come home to early mobile kino zone before microtransaction cancer started
https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE
>iPhone emulator
I'll finally be able to play Infinity Blade...
lol, lmao even
this is going to negatively impact them PERMANENTLY though
At least he is honest about his israeli intentions.
The average "still playing angry birds in 2023" joe doesn't care either way. Its not like the majority of the casual mobile gamers actually bother to join official discords and follow companies on social media platforms, and if they purchased the game it won't disappear from their phones.
They just want something to tap on their phones while "unintentionally" spending +45 minutes to take a shit at work.
Yes, if you cannot figure out how to make a profit while keeping your back catalog online I want you to go out of business. I want you, personally, to be out of a job. I want your management to be blacklisted from the entertainment industry. I want your shareholders to lose everything. I want the angry birds franchise sold to the highest bidder who will keep the catalog available for purchase.
This is moronic. If people are buying your product, then you are making money. It doesn't matter which specific game made you that money. FRICK.
The problem is people spending a bit of money on that game instead of a lot of money on other games
A casual mobile player is willing to spend cash every day on their favorite games, so a single-purchase game with no MTX is basically a company saying "no, we don't want more money".
Rovios best game is World of Warships Jr.
I never played a mobile game and Angry Birds was the game that made sure I never did.
>That one commercial that was shilling a phone or service while bringing up Angry Birds every five seconds
>All the merchandise that came out shortly after
This along with Rockman Xover zeroed me in on how scummy mobile game was.
Angry birds ruined video games
Literally just refunded the dollar after downloading the apk to patch the license verification out. Frick angry birds.
>just outright stating they're removing it because it's hurting their israeli business model
lmao
Who asked?