good day to you can hear for phoneDog
not common it's Monday which means it's time for another one of my weekly rounds
about all things my love I'll this week is the bane of our digital likes the
freemium
maps which have invaded OpSource wetherbee on Android OIOS
or any other platform they have become a frustrating
drain on my energy sauces now let me get started first by saying not in app
purchases
in and of themselves are actually really really good and I think they're
fantastically useful it used to be a great way of being able to trial a nap
a free version of a nap and then you just pay to upgrade to a premium measure
and then Ohio West they will made use of in New Year stand so that you can
actually
subscribe to various titles of magazines on your iPhone through your iPhone
without having to go through a different sites
and sign up elsewhere so actually end up purchases a great time they can be
fantastic and there are other apps that use it really well aP's like paper by 53
a drawing app which lets you unlock set tools for drawing
for a set free and its kinda cool because
I may just want a pencil or a paint brush I might not need any of the other
tools and so I don't have to pay a big price for the whole lot for icons time
is actually these days
if you look at the top grossing aP's on the App Store
all of them of three which means they are making a shed load of money
of in app purchases actually I
don't mind developers making money they need to make money if they didn't make
money they could make up so we couldn't use them all play them
or whatever they need to make money that's not my problem
my problem is when they take advantage of the customer
and actually leave you in a position where you almost caught resist but to
spend your money on something ultimately fruitless
let's go to the biggest culprits he is straight of quit talking about games
like antique Russian while
in app purchases a relatively small individual purchases
the way the game is made it makes you want to carry on it taps into that
popular human psyche
way you kinda progress to a certain level you almost get somewhere when you
almost complete and find a solution
only to find that you calm play in the mall because you need I'm go any
jewels left or whatever stupid currency uses
so in order to carry on what you absolutely must do at this point because
you are so close
noon then need to purchase an in app purchase
of high-powered dollar or two dollars I'm if you get addicted to the game
which it is a very addictive game and that you carry on and keep
having these tokens you keep spending money and before you know it you spend
dollars in dollars in dollars in dollars and dollars ago money on a game
that was initially free it just doesn't make any sense you're paying for
something them
but that's nothing and the same can be said of EA Games
and this is kinda sad story for me because in the olden days of console and
PC games before iPhones and iPods existed
EA was one of those names that everyone you
Electronic Arts is one of the biggest names and gangs
making to the reputation before in app purchases in all this premium stuff
thousand relatively good
over the past few years the ball a lot of really talented
and small games developers the people who initially made real racing made a
fantastic racing game you'd spend quite a lot to download the game in the first
place
but it was a fantastic game and then EA took over an real racing 3 came out and
the Gannet
is a brilliant game but it's been brewing by
in up purchases and all these extra options a I think mechanics and I think
all this stuff
real racing 3 isn't my biggest problem because
you don't need the in app purchases so when Hans the games
nights at a level where it should be you can play the game free
you can work your way up you can make gold where I do have an issue
is and other games where the core experience so what you think should be
the core experiences
only attainable if you buying something within the app using your real money
danes like fee for fourteen another one of the A's games where you car even
Access Manager Mode
which is to me the only mode with playing
ok do I believe that and that person should go absolutely no I think they're
really useful I just think that some developers need to stop being evil
they just need to Stop let's just have game where you don't have to have
in app purchases in order to carry on this is ridiculous
let me pay for my game and leave me alone these game developers are more
evil
and skeletal or Emperor Palpatine
all capital S now there's a reason why developers go with
the premium of freemium version where they give you the game for free
and then of EU in app purchases like I said the top-grossing aP's
in the App Store all freemium games I'm there was a
statistic released recently West 76 percent
of the US's revenue in the App Store comes from free games
with in app purchases not just tells you everything you need to know more than
three-quarters
all the money generated by the App Store is generated through
premium in up purchases and topping the list is candy crush
maybe this epidemic is kinda down to us
we complain we grumble about the fact that somebody might want to charges
upfront so
the only way to get to use an app is to have it for free but then
us the same people that grumble and complain about having to pay something
up front quite happy to drop a hundred dollars on a virtual
Kalona frosted pink donuts let me know in the comments
a view are just as frustrated as me about freemium
Napster they ruin the App Store love you think that everyone should have a limit
on the number of in app purchases one customer come by the fall they're not
allowed to use it anymore
is not the solution I stip and as goal.com on Twitter if you have any
questions or comments you can get me on that i no me responde
fairly promptly trout
all the even more evil a then the guys you make those corn beef chains where
you have to kinda
turn into internet you forget to take the paper of
and keep going all the way around the edge and you realize that the Pens the
pin is no longer strong enough
to break the 10 because the papers they're making the coil 26 and then
you've ruined your call beef