Great, Now You Can Pay A Subscription To Play Tetris

7 responses to “Great, Now You Can Pay A Subscription To Play Tetris”

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   Awnshegh

   December 2, 2011 at 4:55 pm

   Er – This sounds like a scam. They may try and sell it as a ligitimate service but in the end it looks like a scam.

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   1. 

      Mic

      December 2, 2011 at 7:25 pm

      Well it IS EA.

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   pimento

   December 2, 2011 at 7:09 pm

   I like Tetris too much to be a part of such rubbish.

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   bc

   December 3, 2011 at 12:19 am

   this is what mobile games is degenerating into… i can imagine dev teams ending up 50% psychology, 40% marketing/telemetry analysis, 10% art and code…

   how can we trick them into giving us their money? how many whale users per hundred?

   how can we give them the cheapest product and trick the most possible money out of them? are people still pressing the blue “purchase” button or are red buttons trending now?

   PLEASE SOMEBODY COME UP WITH A BUSINESS MODEL WHERE WE CAN BE PAID TO TRY AND MAKE GOOD GAMES AGAIN NOT THIS STUPID TRICKERY!!!!!

   i feel like we are being made into carneys, trying to come up with a sneakier ring-toss game to fleece the rubes… but the sad truth is this kind of wank is making money, and crafted asset-heavy games are just too expensive, nice and risky

   🙁

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      Lobo

      December 3, 2011 at 12:26 am

      I’m going to try to incorporate ‘fleece the rubes’ into my speech from now on.

      But yeah. This is up there on my list of outrageous money grabs.

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      Thom

      December 3, 2011 at 9:31 am

      I’ve met some of the people on the team for this. Your ratios are on the right track, but a little off: its about 90% psychology, 5% marketing and 5% dev. They try to do as little direct marketing as possible and tetris was developed like 20 years ago.

      To the critical: the thing to keep in kind, is that by coming to a blog like this, you’ve excluded yourself from their target market.

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   ed

   December 3, 2011 at 12:44 am

   Tetris Friends is free and has addictive multiplayer modes, a leveling system and FREE.

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