Paywall timers in other iOS games.

I seem to remember having a similar content payment discussion a long time back, although I think I suggested new worlds plus content, eras would be an ideal way to go (for mobile cash-in anyway). I bet (and it has been said before) they could even make money in these games by charging for the colour palette.

Additional/Freemium Content are still generally more acceptable than Pay-To-Wait or some other microtransaction models.



One such asset marketing would be to offer purchasable holiday theme packs to be used year-round, especially when it came to the Eggquinox theme. It was cute in a way, but seeing pastel pavement pizza across the landscape...I could see how many could have issue with it that would turn them off from playing it completely.

I had suggested before that they have such holiday themes be allowed to be toggled on/off at the user's leisure, because some like to use SPAZ's holiday themes year-round, some fiddle with the computer clock in Terraria and other games to trigger seasonal/time-themed events in-game, and being able to have customisable goodies like that allows a player a more a la carte experience - which is sometimes more profitable than a flat rate, but less abusive towards the addictive and codependent than the current model of pay-to-wait.

If simon22cans and colin22cans wish to discuss business and marketing aspects of Godus and how they may be improved, we'll gladly help along.

Right now, on a financial level, it appears that Godus is hardly doing as well for 22cans as folks pretend it might be even on their mobile sales, and the figures might not be quite representative of actual sales...once folks figure out how this design eventually turns into "Hey, you made it to the end of Island 2. Game Over. Aren't you glad you spent money to speed this up?" Heh, you don't even get that courtesy kiss after being screwed...

Otherwise...why would they shift most of the company to another game - and keep them there - BEFORE the big payoff that was to become the paying "God of Gods" reason for this entire fucking thing to exist as a conclusion to Curiosity? THAT kind of multiplayer arena is where Clash of Clans and others, including Dungeon Keeper Mobile (which Peter trashed and then made something worse), make their big sales pressures.

22cans are trying to establish a new working IP before this one gets to the point of not being able to even remotely keep the company solvent, BEFORE it reaches the point of maximum profit potential.

After all, just like the creator of Five Nights at Freddy's had learned from criticism about Chipper & Son's Lumber Co. - there are ways to use someone's talents.  I have ideas for this for a post in another thread where this might be able to offer the most elegant and pragmatic solution for Godus.  At least redeem it a little bit.

Think about the design of Five Nights at Freddy's if you watch this, but there's a comment that sums it up nicely below:



"Fuck me...I ain't sleepin' tonight..."

cyanmanta:
The irony of the commenters dismissing Jim as an "asshole" for this video, is that if Scott Cawthon had taken your advice and just told Jim and the rest of the critics to go fuck themselves, he'd still be failing at game design to this day. He succeeded with FNaF because he took the critics seriously when they told him that his ostensibly cute designs were actually terrifying and decided to go with it instead of being dismissive.

That results in awesome videos like this, which could be described as total fanservice: