There are two possible legitimate arguments for piracy and both of them are arguable. Second off, you emulator people are part of the problem and for some reason, don't even get that you are! Let me spell it out for you: You are stealing. First off, you're missing the point because you got caught up in FF6.
If you're going to keep asking developers to make real games for the mobile platform and charge you full game price for them and then not buy it while millions of people will pay 100 dollars to build an army faster, the developers are going to charge people 100 dollars to build an army faster because people complaining on the internet ain't worth shit.Įdit: So I keep getting replies because people are so focused on my choice of the FF6 example and people mentioning emulators. You think you'd make a living off 20 cents for programming a game? People wouldn't even pay 20 fuckin cents for Thomas Was Alone. Or even Game of War that people make fun of for last year's Super Bowl boob ads. That's the de facto IAP game most people think of when it comes to the mobile platform. It's frequently mentioned as the best Final Fantasy game.Īnd no one is buying it. You could buy FF6 for 16 dollars and play it on your phone. The problem is that the mobile gaming platform suffers from a fairly vicious cycle.įor example, Square Enix has made the effort to port many of some of their old school favorites to the mobile platform but they do exactly what people asked for: Charge me full price for a game and give me the full game with no IAP. I think everyone's expectations of mobiles games are pretty low as it is.