indy_cole
Thanks for the feedback on the paid version of the game. This is just something we're considering at the moment. Of course, Starseeds and Coffees would be less scarce in the paid version.
I love the idea of a paid version.
emotion_c8
Personally, I'm much more inclined to spend money on a game than to buy things to make said game enjoyable. On paper, a free game in which you pretty much have to buy items with RL money makes good business sense, but I don't think it's a very effective model IRL. If you download a free game that's pretty enjoyable, but it starts getting to points where you pretty much
have to use your money to get any farther in the game, you're probably going to just delete it unless you have a bunch of money laying around that you have no other use for.
If you pay for a game, however -- and
a lot of teenagers and manchildren probably would, considering it's the closest thing to Poke'mon you're going to get on an iPod -- and game items are easier to come by, you're going to be more inclined to buy an item in that rare case that you really,
really have to.
When you hold an item for five seconds, you begin to form an emotional attachment to that item -- like it's yours. If someone gives you a Playstation that's kinda beat up, you're going to form an attachment to it; if it breaks, however, you're probably going to just get rid of it instead of investing any money into it. If you buy a Playstation, though, you're going to form an emotional attachment to it for sure. Now imagine you just dropped all that money, and you're half an hour away from beating Duke Nukem: Eternity, and your console breaks. You're probably going to spend more money fixing your console than you paid for it in the first place.
Monster Galaxy isn't on the level of a PS3, but when you have an attachment to something, you normally won't discriminate.
Sorry that was kinda long, but I figured I'd tell you what my opinion is since it's more than "this game sucks give me free coffees and starseeds nao
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