One of the novelties in apps on Android, especially in games for this mobile operating system, are called micropayments, a payment method included in the game that allows you to get improvements or new elements to advance in the game.
A Pair of micropayments that sometimes have little micro and become Macropayments as is the case with the latest version of the game Angry Birds in the version Angry Birds Go!.
To start this personal opinion piece, I want to say that Angry Birds Go! It seems to me an amazing game in which I see perfect the option of micropayments to get improvements for our vehicles or even buy new ones. A very valid option for game developers in which they can find financial means to continue developing new versions and games as amazing as the one already mentioned in Angry Bird Go!.
The reason for this article is to reflect on this new concept of micropayment, and in this case that concerns us today, that of Angry Bird Go!, more than micropayments I consider what they are Macropayments.
Let me explain a bit and attach the scandalous screenshots about the vehicles available in this new version of the crazy and hungry little birds:
In the option to buy the best equipped vehicles in this game we have three options to select from, all of them within the concept of micropayments and even cost of 2,69 Euros, 9 Euros y 45,04 Euros respectively. And my question is,45,04 Euros o 9 Euros by an improved vehicle may be included within this modality of micropayments?.
In my humble opinion, I think that these Rovio They have gone completely crazy to tie if they think someone is going to spend a whopping 45,04 Euros for acquiring one of these vehicles, if already the first option of 2,69 Euros It seems to me a real armed robbery, I don't even want to tell you what I think about the other two vehicle purchase options.
Hopefully they reflect on these abusive prices, or are simply a programming error, because if I do not predict little sales success in this of the macropayments within Angry Birds Go!.
Would you be willing to buy some of the aforementioned vehicles to improve your gaming experience with Angry Birds Go!? How much would you see reasonable to pay for these vehicles?
More information - You can now race in Angry Birds GO!
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The worst of all is that surely there are people who will buy
Hahaha! Francisco, the world of micropayments is an armed crime, but optional. It hit me when I played Real Racing 3, up to $ 100 for a vehicle.
They are getting out of hand in some things, and although they value the effort of their work… they see us as stupid faces and as Jose says, there are people who pay for it. = /
"Every day an asshole goes out into the street, whoever catches him keeps him"
The point is that I am clear that this is done in bad faith. It happened to me with my daughter's tablet and still being aware of this. The fact is that in the play there is no way to know which apps allow this. I downloaded about 10 games for my daughter and went into each of them to see if there were inappropriate things for her or payments. However, the rovio pigs slipped away. 10 euros blown in my face. Ok, I could have taken the precaution of activating the password for purchases, but I honestly did not expect that a game like Rovio's pigs would propose a payment of 10 euros in the middle of the game, without indicating anything at all or on the play nor at the start of the game.
Either take action on Google, or the issue will turn against you.
My children (5 and 7 years old) were playing Angry Birds go when I saw that I had received three emails from Google Play. They thanked me for three purchases, two for € 45 and one for € 2 and a bit. I immediately took the tablet out of their hands, activated the password (I didn't know it was deactivated by default) and contacted Rovio through Google Play. I requested a refund for unauthorized purchase and within a few hours they confirmed the cancellation of the orders.
In the answer they say that the password is a good measure but you have to take into account that during the 30 min after a purchase you can buy again without a password ...
A nonsense about the € 45 per at least they have behaved ...
Nobody has played the Simpsons Springfield game? I installed it to see how it was and I was very amused by the Homer parodies including the game itself as the Simpsons are accustomed to us, but when you start to advance and see that there are things that you can only acquire by more than 150 dollars I uninstalled it right away to avoid addiction and frustration for not being able to make full use of the game without paying
The more expensive, the more you improve your car, the more difficult it will get to the point that it is impossible to win if you go, unlike the others, without turbo or target - also it is not entirely online - it is noticeable by the waiting time different with sponsors.
How different would it be if the races were actually online playing with your friends as "poor" as you) - in itself it is not poverty, only that it seems ridiculous to spend money on rush cars and turbos if the level will be even more and higher and you will always have that feeling of getting better and putting in more and more money - silly.