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So I guess you are saying that there is no free to play game that you are content with. Yeah, I agree that Hearthstone has its issues with the way it monetizes, but its a step forward for a game of that caliber. Premium prices games are always what you can play if you want it to seem "fairest"...
Hey Kinneas, thanks for replying to my thread on the future of monster capture games. The reason I have been asking, is we've been designing a free to play monster capture/collection game that hopes to do free to play right. Would love for you to test our current alpha build if you are down for...
Hearthstone is setup in a way, in which you start with a large number of cards to form a deck of 30 cards. Then, you fight other players in turn based combat in order to obtain additional gold to purchase cards. The key to hearthstone's non "pay to win" strategy, is that from the cards you get...
Hey guys,
So Pokemon defined the monster capture sub-genre within the RPG genre.
Since then, there have been numerous other monster capture games, most of them clones of Pokemon in one form or another. Particularly on mobile and facebook which have been commonly viewed as money grabs.
While...