It's incredible that the App Store can support so many money-sucking, time-gobbling freemium games. I try not to sneer at the game choices of others, but there's something twisted and predatory about the math and psychology that goes into turning those games into money machines. In theory, there should be nothing inherently wrong with the free-to-play model, but it seems that once a developer heads down that path, they start designing to extract tolls from the player, rather than designing an experience delightful enough that people want to pay for it.
Well, thankfully there are still lots of game developers crafting entertaining experiences to delight players, rather than laying psychological traps to extract money from them.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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