Always wondered what it's like to be one of the artists working on these cynical mobile ripoffs. I hope they at least get paid
Shittiness levels deep.
Pokemon is designed from the start to be low-creative-effort, addictive entertainment: endless stream of repetitive cute/awesome monsters and you have to "catch them all" via repetitive actions that occasionally yield a dopamine reward. You might catch a new one by - 1) watching episodes where [characters] have [adventure] in [biome], 2) walking in the grass/cave on your console, 3) buying another pack of cards or food item that comes with a pack of cards. And then you try again and again and again.
It's a neverending reusable formula. You just need to occasionally pay artists to update the graphics.
I'm the pirate in the third row because I usually get cracked apks
Stuff like this reminds me of one of my favorite Onion headlines of all time: Pope Francis Reverses Position On Capitalism After Seeing Wide Variety Of American Oreos
"Only a truly exceptional and powerful economic system would be capable of producing so many limited-edition and holiday-themed flavors of a single cookie brand."
Can we really call ourselves a community if we don't have a Chapo Clan on CoC?
the mobile game industry is what every industry would be like in an ancap dystopia
