Snail Games enters the mobile wars, Free To Play gaming is found extremely profitable on consoles, Zombie Studios closes their doors, all that and more, I'm Zach Sharpes, and this is Free to play weekly!...
Free to Play Cast: Return of the Brim! Ep. 124
This week we welcome a new host. Well, an old host making a return! We move from catching up to chatting about Snail Games' effort to crack into the console/smartphone market, start up the F2P Hall of Fame, and cap it off with Producer's Letters breakdown for DDO and LOTRO. All that and much more on this week's episode of the Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
02:10 Snail Games Consoles
12:03 F2P Hall of Fame
20:15 DDO/LOTRO Producer's Letters
29:18 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
34:20 Questions and Answers of the Week
If you have submissions for the show's Weekly Bombs, have questions for the panel (nothing is off limits!), or just ideas for what you want covered you can now send them to magicman@mmobomb.com. You can also be a guest in the show, just send us why you want to host, and what topic or game you would like to cover.
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Question of the week, android gaming...never really interested, if i want to game on the big screen i'll get a bigger cable for the PC to connect it to the TV
When I'm at home I have a million better games to play on my PC or PS3 (or roommates PS4, now). I have zero interest in sitting on a couch to play my Android games or spending any money on a dedicated system to play them, they're already on my bloody phone and a bigger screen isn't going to make them any more enjoyable (given the quality of visuals and mechanics of the games).
I never once got the hype behind the Ouya or Android consoles in general (seriously, how the Ouya got so much hype/funding truly baffles me as a "core" gamer), and after its extremely lackluster performance and how quickly all the hype for the follow-up Android consoles died I'm surprised to see anyone else deciding that it's a market that they want to enter in.
Then again it's Snail Games and I haven't quite put a bead on what's going on with them as of yet.
Question of the week:
for me it depends on the cost of the console. I buy hardware to gain access to things I don't have access to. to buy an additional item to play something I can already play the price becomes the deciding factor for me. being able to play something on a larger screen has some value to me, but that value is pretty limited.