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at MetaFilter. Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:12:22 -0800 Tue, 04 Feb 2014
07:12:22 -0800 en-us 60 How in-app purchase is( not really)?
destroying the games industry Thomas Baekdal writes on <a
href="">How In-app Purchases Have Destroyed The [Game]
Industry</a>: <blockquote> We have reached a point in which
mobile games couldn't even be said to be a game anymore. Playing
a game means that you have fun. It doesn't mean that you sit
around and wait for the game to annoy you for so long that you
decide to pay credits to speed it up. And for an old geezer like
me who remember the glory days of gaming back in the 1990s, it's
just unbearable to watch. </blockquote> Drew Crawford <a
href="">answers</a>: <blockquote> See, in the in-app purchase
model actually predates phones. It predates video game consoles.
It goes all the way back to the arcade, where millions of
consumers were happy to pay a whole quarter ... to pay for just
a few minutes. </blockquote>,2014:site