I watched dozens of ads to get a pilot license in the game. This is sick

I watched 29 ads yesterday just to get two pilot licenses in the iPad game.

The iPad and iPhone are my main platforms for playing. This is mainly because I do not have time for longer meetings and I play in the so-called In the meantime, and these two devices are usually at hand. On Sunday in yours I sat down to the Airline Commander game. It's a simulator with the manager's features. The player's role is primarily flying. Among the tasks we find mainly takeoffs and landings varied from time to time with engine failures, bad weather, heart attacks of passengers etc. At the appropriate level, we can also carry out flights in real time, lasting an hour or one and a half.

Of course, it is difficult to talk about a realistic simulator. Airline Commander is simply fun in civil aviation. So nice that in recent weeks I reach for it often.

In-app purchases kill the spirit of the game

I do not belong to those who avoid paying for applications. On the contrary, when it is possible, I pay even for removing ads from mobile software. For a few or a dozen zlotys I can enjoy peace without banners and cutscenes. Of course, I also use numerous subscriptions. I pay without hesitation when I'm sure that I will get a good application.

An important tool for earning develeoperów is shopping in applications. Let's look at the mentioned Airline Commander. By acquiring subsequent licenses and aircraft, virtual dollars are needed. In theory, we acquire them by completing subsequent missions. In practice, we are very fast in front of the alternative: wait or pay, and even before the choice: if I do not pay, I will not go further.

To get another license for piloting an ATR 72, I can choose to pay 24.56k virtual dollars or get it without an exam, paying with special loans. The second variant kills the sense of getting more levels, what a pleasure to buy a driver's license? The first option makes it unnecessary to play at all.

Why? Because after paying 24.56k of virtual dollars I will not stand in front of the examination board, but I will launch a timer, thanks to which I will be able to get a license in 1.5 hours. The mechanism is clever. To pay 24.56k of virtual currency I have to use the real one, the state of my account in the game is 10k, even though I have just made a few flights, on which I made some money.

The cheapest loan package that I can exchange for the currency costs 8.99 PLN. Suppose I decided to use cash. After purchasing the package, I start the timer. If I am patient, I will take the exam in one and a half hours. As a last resort, I can shorten the time by 5 minutes by watching commercials. Yesterday, in this way, I watched 29 ads to get two licenses.

There is nothing to hide that the mechanism is idiotic. For 14 spots for one exam, the ads were repeated 3-4 times. Clips lasting about 30 seconds were devoted to the weakest market titles, which I would not even look at in the App Stora.

To make matters worse, I have to pay to start the countdown, to finance the missing amount of virtual dollars. The logic is simple: pay and cry.

In fact, you should uninstall the game and show the middle finger to the creators.

In Airline Commander, I scored level 8, 7 aircraft and launched 64 directions. The latter bring a symbolic profit of 241 virtual dollars a day. Additional missions, plus opening new directions, allow you to earn tens of thousands of virtual dollars. The game is structured to pay for subsequent licenses and airplanes. For example, the Airbus A320 costs over 573k of virtual dollars. It's a bajon sum.

So what's the reason that the game is fun, since the achievements gained in its course allow for a relatively short game? If we want to keep the dynamics of playing or just do not waste time, we have to pay. In truth, it depends on whether we pay the sense of further entertainment.

I do not mind shopping in applications, if they do not determine whether we will continue playing. In the case of air games, I can imagine that for some amount we unlock an additional plane (eg Boeing 747-8) or a mission. Addictive gameplay from spending more sums of real money kills the joy of playing. I can not calculate how much money would end up getting to the title of the title Airline Commander, without exaggeration I can write that it would not be a common-sense approach. Certainly, for the money spent, a collector's edition of a console or a masterpiece could be purchased. In this juxtaposition, investing in a mobile game seems irrational.

The Airline Commander's example is just a drop in the ocean. That is why I prefer to pay tens of zlotys for playing without disturbing the necessity of shopping. Thanks to this game, for example, in the Playdead game, Inside was an undisturbed pleasure.

I do not delude myself. I know that micro-transactions are a vein of gold, which, discovered by the developers of the software, will be used to flush the last clot. Already today, on the market of large games intended for consoles and PCs, micropayments generate higher revenues than digital copies of games , and yet in the mobile games market, in-app purchases are one of the main methods of generating revenues.

I watched dozens of ads to get a pilot license in the game. This is sick