mobile gaming is ******ed and the market continues to prove it like this

its so stupid and a huge waste of time

 

Mobile gaming is a great platform. I probably spend more time playing iOS games than actual console or handheld games. It's only these micro-transaction pay-to-win bullshit imitation "games" that developers like DeNA churn out that are garbage.

 

Tactics was at least a little enjoyable, I play it. But, Mobbage or Dena or whatever they call themselves are the definition of a stupid greedy company

 

I loved this game, and I even spent money on it (the $2.99 for 50 dollars worth of currency over the course of a month using Google Rewards money wasn't too bad). But it quickly went to trash when the rewards for doing the event became non-existent and the pay to win became more prominent with the battle chips. Doesn't surprise me that it's dead.

 

Here's the thing about mobile gaming - the vast majority of players never spend a dime on the game. A fraction, maybe 20%, throw some money at it when the game is fresh or if there's a big update.

Then there's the whales. 0.15% of mobile gamers bring in 50% of the transactions. Without commenting on the morality or the ethics of this model, it's the reality of the situation. When you've got a license like TF that has to be renegotiated every couple years (and can eventually just go away forever), of course you're going to milk it for every last cent.

In this case, we all know that Earth Wars is coming (from a different publisher and studio) so it's not surprising to see Battle Tactics being taken down now. I'd imagine DeNa/Mobage/whoever's license expires sometime around May/June.

 

Good riddance.

The only people I feel bad for are the people that spent real money to make sure they got the characters they wanted (and they would have had to spend a LOT based on the requirements to get certain characters)

Because come May, that game and all your characters are going to become worthless.

This just goes to show you, never and I mean NEVER invest real money into a mobile game.

 

Loved the game at first......but I lost touch with it in the past month. It was really getting boring when they put back pvp ( I kept losing!) Not to sad it is ending (cause I don't care) but I spent no money so no regrets! There is going to be new tf games so look out Dena. You are getting off the boat. 

 

I can't say I'll miss the game. It's been quite a while since I played.

But, I will say that the first 5-6 months of the game's life was actually pretty fun. I was part of a great league that worked hard (and was a mix of free and paid), and we did pretty well for ourselves. If you put the time and effort into it, you could carve out a decent niche in the mid to upper tier.

However, as DeNA started messing with the formula and reduced the rewards while taking away any possible advantages that the free players had (mostly through nerfing the Stronghold events), any interest in continuing the game dissipated for me.

I still have it installed on my tablet, and I will see what the Grand Finale event is all about, but I'll be quite pleased to uninstall it - and go through the same cycle again when Earth Wars is given a wide release.

 

They should be relieved because of the thousands they'll save. (and TONS of hours) But they'll find another addiction elsewhere.

 

This is because of Earth Wars, right? If so, I'm not surprised. DeNA is not working on the next game, so maybe everyone will be optimistic about Earth Wars as such. It was time for them to lose the license anyway.
Battle Tactics irritated me with their chibi designs for characters. Doesn't work for Transformers.

 

I liked Battle Tactics well enough, but I'm not surprised since they won't be making the Transformers games going forward. Didn't see Hasbro letting them run this forever with new stuff on the way, haha.

Earth Wars should be good - here's to hoping.

 

Annnnd thats what happens with shit phone apps.

Nothing new here.

Salty that this kind of "free to play" garbage has destroyed a big chunk of "real" gaming.

Couldn't the casuals be happy with a magazine on the toilet whilst their Mario Bro's was on pause in the living room? Narp. Gotta have that flappy bird whilst you shit and that candy crush whilst you're drooling watching the latest episode of "The View."

 

....

Well, at least the first word is accurate.

(Do you legitimately think that mobile gaming has actually damaged the console/PC business?)

 

My son is going to be devastated by this, he's got a lot invested timewise and character-wise to this game.

 

Played it for several months...but saw that, if you didn't spend money or didn't have a group of friends who played it religiously in a league with you, you were SOL. Pretty much killed my enthusiasm so I quit the game. Glad I didn't spend any money.

 

Well, wasn't Hasbro going to start doing in-house games anyhow? Probably part of the agreement.

Yeah, large companies haven't learned that they can make a game grindy and then sell items to unlock stuff quickly from mobile games or anything.  

 

And sadly I don't care.

I can never get into mobile gaming.

I absolutely love this.

Did you actually make this?

 

My only take-away from this is... is "sunset" an industry term now?