Studio takes fair mobile game off the market – the reasoning outrages many gamers

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For many gamers, it’s a message symptomatic of why they reject mobile games. The company “Rovio Entertainment” has launched a mobile game without microtransactions: Rovio Classics: Angry Bird costs only one euro. The remake of the 2009 hit is hugely successful on Google Play – but it’s now being pulled from the market because it “impacts the broader portfolio.”

What kind of game is this?

  • Rovio is the Finnish developer studio that created the Angry Birds game in 2009. The aim of the game is to use a slingshot to shoot birds at pigs’ hiding places. Points are awarded for each destroyed object.
  • The game in question is called Rovio Classics: AB. It costs €0.99 on the Google Play Store and is a remake of the original game, completely devoid of microtransactions.
  • The game has 36,500 reviews on Google Play with 4.7 stars out of 5. People say: It almost feels like before. The great thing is that for the price of 1 € you get a lot, plus no advertising and no in-app purchases.

    • An update from Angry Birds is one of the most successful gaming trailers on YouTube:

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    Rovio analyzes “business case”, says to take the game off the market in 2 days

    This is the decision now: On February 21, Rovio announced that they had looked at the game’s “business case” and what influence the game has on the wider “games portfolio”. Therefore, the decision was taken to remove the game from the store on February 23rd.

    For now, the game will remain playable on devices it was downloaded on, but will be delisted.

    One understands that this decision upsets people and hopes that they will then play Angry Birds 2, for example.

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    What do they mean? One of the developers says: “It has a negative effect on our other games.” This endangers the future of the company.

    This clearly means:

  • Because this game is so popular but lacks microtransactions, people play the “classic” buying game and not the microtransaction games
  • This makes the company less money than if the game didn’t exist and people were forced to play one of the versions with in-game purchases

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    What are people so upset about? The topic is number one in the general Games Reddit, which is unheard of for a mobile game. Hard PC gamers are usually at home in reddit/Games, for whom it is already a sacrilege when Bethesda turns the sacred role-playing game Fallout into a survival MMO.

    People are saying, “The far superior game is being pulled from digital stores to favor crappy, microtransaction-infested versions” – examples where this has been the case include games like Peggles or Plant vs. Zombies

    For outraged gamers, the example is paradigmatic for the mobile market, which they dismiss as “slot”-infested:

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