"Erpe;c-16441374" wrote:
"king_of_simcity7;c-16441342" wrote:
"@alan650111;c-16441221" wrote:
Same here! What the plum is EA's insistence that every game be online or mobile? They destroyed the Simcity franchise by making it online required. The Sims games are SINGLE PLAYER experiences! They've made millions and millions off of Will Wright's creative franchise and for some reason keep wanting to mutate it to be like the thousands of horrible to average mobile games saturating the market! The Sims series is near and dear to my heart. There truly is nothing else like it out there! They had easy access to people's wallets if they just kept releasing quality packs that dig into great ways to play. THAT IS ALL THEY HAD TO DO! The Sims was a phenomenon that EA is illogicaly slicing and dicing into some plum mobile product that will be nothing but a shadow of the game's original genius premise.
I was thinking about Will Wright as well. This game started out as a PC game as did the Sim City games and spinoffs before it. There was no mobile games in 1990, 1995 or 2000 and not in 2004 or 2009 either so why now? Who said that this is the 'step forward' considering that game play wise an mobile game will still be a step backwards
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Because everybody now owns a smartphone, because mobile games generated about $46 billion in 2017 and because the market for mobile games is exploding especially in China. See http://www.pocketgamer.biz/asia/comment-and-opinion/67626/h2-2017-china-mobile-games-market/
It's not just smartphones now either -- the rise of the mini-tablets (like the iPad mini series or some of the smaller Android tablets like the LG tablets) have opened up markets to mobile gaming. A game that might be hard to play on a smartphone (especially for folks with fat fingers) could work perfectly well on a tablet.
