Four years since Candy Crush King is still making the same game

<em>Farm Heroes Super Saga</em> hits app stores, but how long can the match-three boom last?

Read the whole story

 

[Vincent294]

You know, I would almost like EA if they sued King's worthless asses out of existence. I mean they'd have a better case than King had (though still admittedly a bit bull****), and it would do the gaming industry a service.

 

[Vincent294]

AlexisR200X[/url]"4su007t]One of the main reasons Candy crush saga and pretty much any other King game is the focus on the psychological aspect of gaming rather than making them fun. They probably have tapped into every little manipulation trick there is to keep people from realizing that its a match 3 game carefully stacked against you so you pay money to "give yourself a bit of an edge". From bright and colorful color palettes to overly celebrating anything you do with special effects and celebratory sounds.

You could literally lose on purpose and the games will still pat you on the back telling you how close you were to winning and that you will surely do better next time. Who doesn't like winning, right? Its an always constant and deliberate amount of sensory stimulus designed to keep you playing and more importantly spending/watching ads. Take a stroll into a casino and compare those games with the flashy slot machines there. The influence of gambling folks in the mobile gaming industry is subtle but pervasive.

Someone should make a satirical edutainment game that does that when you save your money. "Congratulations, you didn't throw what little money you have at a douchey corporation! You still haven't done anything good in life, but at least you didn't **** up! : D : D ; D"

 

[Vincent294]

Carewolf[/url]":3v5wcjet]

Haravikk[/url]":3v5wcjet]The real question is why does this make so much money when games exactly like it have been available to play for free online for decades? Same with Angry Birds, which is just a rip-off of every physics puzzler that came before it, yet is the one that has merchandise and a terrible-looking movie.

Network effect. It is basically random what comes out ahead, but whatever comes out ahead, will continue to get further ahead because it gets all the media attention and more recommendations for friends. All you need is: To be good enough and to be REALLY lucky (or bribe the right people).

Once you grab an idiot's attention they don't think about how much money they throw at you. If you gave me a HUD with the amount of money I wasted on those iPod machines as a kid, the total profit margin, and a video of an asshole CEO doing an evil laugh, I never would have been so stupid. It doesn't help that stores put them in the front. I remember the first thing I did when I installed Windows 10 was dismiss an error code and uninstall Candy Crush Saga. Microsoft and WinCo let me down.