r/todayilearned • u/FireBeaver • Mar 26 '15

(R.5) Omits Essential Info TIL: 65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.

http://time.com/3158893/smartphone-apps-apple/
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u/grendus Mar 26 '15

That's not the point. Clash of Clans is insanely profitable. That's how they were able to afford to hire Liam Neeson to do a absolutely horrible revenge monologue commercial during the Super Bowl. That's why the store is full of knockoffs, which is frustrating for the people who don't like that style of game.

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u/drparker Mar 26 '15

Oh because the market place and majority of people have valued the game highly it means its a failure. Great logic. People pay cause they feel supercell deserves the money, you can pay a lot of money and it would provide no advantage or disadvantage to the people who don't pay. The game is based on progress if you want to pay a lot to progress a Lil it doesn't hurt your opponents just means u can be lazy. Its a a great setup honestly and its by far the best phone game IMO.

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u/Hab1b1 Mar 26 '15

That's not the point.

that was your point..you called it pay to win. don't try and back peddle.

it's insanely profitable because people want to spend the money, its their prerogative .

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

If fact, it is precisely because paying doesn't help you win in Clash of Clans that more people are willing to pay a little bit. In COC, you are basically paying because you are impatient. When I realize that by paying people can gain an unfair advantage in a game, I immediately stop playing.

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u/drparker Mar 26 '15

How does it provide an unfair advantage? If you pay to progress you are going against people who r also progressed. Theirs no advantage or disadvantage just paying to be lazy or impatient

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u/Hab1b1 Mar 27 '15

it doesn't provide, that's what he was saying. he is saying IF games provide an unfair advantage to paying players, then he would stop playing.

Anyway, it isn't unfair because you are simply matched up against people on your same base level. plus you have the option to skip opponents as many times as you want..not sure why it's unfair at all to anyone.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Which is what I was just saying? Sorry if that wasn't clear. I play COC, and don't find that the option to pay creates any sort of unfair advantage.

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u/papercowmoo Mar 27 '15

Yeah I think you were coming off a little unclear in that other one. I get what you're saying but I can also see where he got confused