I have a phone, I wanted games to play on it on the bus or whatever. But the more I get to see of mobile gaming, the less I want to have to do with it.

You can get awesome single player games on the phone, no microtransactions, no online bullshit. Some of them free, some of them paid. Some board games, games like Civilisation Rev, Game Dev Story, Adventure Bar, Star Traders etc come to mind. I even have Bard's Tale and Max Payne.

And yeah I only play while waiting for the bus or train. Or just waiting in general.

Here, play an actual game: ER3G-ZW6U-H2H3-YWB4

I didn't take it but +1. :-)

Or King of Dragon Pass (one of my "10 favorite games of all times'") if you're on an apple device

heh

Very devious of Electronic Arts! They make a new free-to-pay Dungeon Keeper just to irritate players, which makes the miffed players rush to buy EA's earlier games in the series (Dungeon Keeper Gold + DK2), from e.g. GOG! Can you say "ka-ching!"?

Anyway, I vote with my wallet, just like I do when I support DRM-free. I might load and try the new Dungeon Keeper on Android just to test it out, but I am not going to pay a dime for the micro-transactions, just like I haven't for Plants vs Zombies 2. I rather just stop playing the game if I find it is expecting me to pay money in order to proceed.

Then again, if these micro-transactions prove to be a similar money-making machine to EA as Clash of Clans is for SuperCell... what can I say? If some people really enjoy that stuff and are ready to pay for it, all the power to them I guess.

Come to think of it, a bit similar problem was already with old arcade coin op games. After all, their main point was to attract people to play the game, and keep inserting coins. So it normally meant very low learning curve, getting quite hard soon so that you just couldn't help but dying every now and then, etc.

There were some exceptions like the Nintendo arcade games (like Super Mario Bros), but I think in those you paid for playtime, ie. there was a timer after which the game would end, unless you inserted more coins? Or how in Gauntlet 1-2 you would insert more coins just to keep your health up in tight situations.

I asked for some a few months ago, but nothing really stuck. I actually played a Carmageddon port from one of the humble bundles, and a not particularly interesting FTL wannabe, however I've not gotten into any mobile game since.

Given that they probably need a publisher agreement for a sale, that's probably not likely. Unless someone at EA really appreciates self irony.

I'm impatiently waiting for the ASUS VivoTab Note 8 to be released here, so I'll finally be able to play Windows games on the go, instead of getting this kind of crappy treatment.

Yes, but I think gamers that support microtransactions should be even more ashamed. You know the old rule: no demand, no supply. Apparently there are a lot of people willing to pay and then companies like EA just exploits it. I'm not trying to excuse EA, this game is a disgrace but unfortunately it's also gamers' fault that we have to witness this travesty

Dan Hardcastle (NerdCubed) posted a nice rant about DKm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpdoBwezFVA
He's even recommending buying the originals on GOG. (It's telling when a Steam-fan does something like this...)
So, thank you, EA, I suppose.

Good, people feel way about that game. It's pretty much just a childish dungeon keeper with the same design of Clash of Clans + slow gameplay to make you use gem which are a part of micro-transactions... And it has 5 star rating on the App Store!! (People have no logic nowadays)