Why do people hate on mobile games, call them "not real games" and mock them, when some mobile-exclusive games are the best games I've played? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by PlogLod@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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The Infinity Blade or Minigore series, for example, or anything made by Illusion Labs. These games are genius and most consoles don't even have a touch screen or utilise it well like some smartphone games do.

Also why do people look at me weirdly 👀 when I play games on my phone in public while waiting for something?

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[-] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Well, the mobile game industry has very successfully set a precedent that mobile games are cheap, which is basically the problem. It’s hard to break into a market at ten times the cost of existing products… regardless of how reasonable it is.

Though to be honest I’d love to see a future where buying a license to play a game grants that license everywhere. I’ve bought too many games multiple times to play it on different consoles for whatever reason. Maybe that’s part of the complaint here.

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