Mainly OSRS on Mobile. Cause it’s the full game and I can play it during downtime at work.
All other phones games, no. Most are just predatory cash grabs with either tons of ads/no ads but content that gets severely gated if you don’t spend money. Now a lot have adopted the season pass nonsense aswell.
Edit: Forgot about Pokemon Go until Haugs mentioned it. Sometime this year the Pokemon TCG Pocket game that’s coming out aswell. (Those are also fine.)
Not into them myself. But globally speaking they make more money than PC AND console game sales COMBINED.
The first time I learned that I couldn’t believe it. but then I guess it makes sense if you think about – you always have your phone with you, and world wide we gamers are far outnumbered by the non gamer that just wants to kill time on their bus/train ride to work or whatever calls for just killing 30 minutes or so.
Don’t know if this link will work I rarely post links…but its just a google link to show 2023 game revenue to back what I wrote above.
It’s cringe, but not as cringe as the people whom of it partake and lay claim to the mantle of gamer.
Not a fan of it. I tried honestly several times and just never found it engaging. I also don’t like the idea of gaming following me everywhere. It’s already my primary pass time when I get some downtime. Doesn’t need to be in my pocket too.
That’s what the forums are for lol.
Think the cringiest thing I’ve ever seen is someone trying to gatekeep being a gamer 
Sounds like they are the leaders of the industry then. That’s the direction it’s all going.
Reality is, people follow the money. The gaming industry isn’t to blame.
It’s every single person who forks out money on a bad product.
If game developers can make less money on a damn good product because the consumer base doesn’t care about quality any more, there’s zero incentive to invest all that extra effort, time, and money.
But people don’t want to blame themselves. It’s much easier to blame a broad category like “gaming”
A murloc costume costs more money than a monthly sub 
Oh I think the blame is shared fairly equally across the board but I do agree. If people weren’t willing to fork over money on murloc onesies we wouldn’t be plagued by horrible murloc onesies. 
I have one game that I play. It is free with no ads, akin to candy crush but was more optimized with game modes and specific boosters and other cool trinkets to help you climb your score.
It has solo mode, pvp, and other game modes too. I love it and have been playing it for several years. Good puzzle aspect for the brain too.
Other than that… no. I don’t play phone games very often at all. Most are a scam. My one game though… I love it and would suggest it to anyone looking for a quality game to try.
Until mobile gaming involves neuralink it’s just a scaled-down repeat of something that has fewer barriers for marketers to abuse customers.
It’s a fair point; two sides of the same coin.
The murloc costume is a great example to use, though, because it costs more than a single month of access to the entire game.
If I’m a game developer, and the customer is responding to that favorably, that’s gonna destroy decision-making. Finance is gonna light up like a Christmas tree
People had the same reaction to google glass but they made camera glasses anyways.
i hate mobile games and their gacha stuff to make stuff more easy and to collect
Also I genuinely think pokemon go is a good game.
First and foremost, I think it’s a good game because only a mobile phone can play it. You gotta walk around. It encourages you to go outside and interact with a community. You couldn’t get anywhere in the game if you tried to use a device that isn’t a cell phone.
If I made an effort to try to encapsulate the very best of what (mobile) gaming should provide to the customer, I think pokemon go nails it.
Monetization seems really healthy too, particularly because the game doesn’t require you to be better than other players to see meaningful progression.
Categorically, though, the “problem” with mobile gaming is that every single person has access to the hardware required to play it. They’re incredibly cost effective and accessible. So, they have a much higher chance to infiltrate the market.
Then there’s the reality that game developers get a massive handicap in terms of the effort required to get the game in peoples’ hands. When quality isn’t as much of a concern, it’s easier for competitors to enter the market.
Mobile gaming is always going to win. It’s just the reality. But very, very few games are actually good enough to justify the money they make. Pokémon go is one of those games imo
I think it has potential. Potential that will never be reached because the vast majority of mobile game companies would rather make games that are little more than glorified gambling for kids instead of actual good portable gaming experiences.
With that said, I can’t play those games on my phone for extended periods of time since my right thumb fixed wrong when I displaced it back when I was a kid, hell, last time I installed a mobile game was when Wild Rift came out and I only played like 2 matches before uninstalling.
Put this on a poster and frame it
use to be true but not anymore with a remote raid pass and you are friends with someone that is near the gyms and they raised the price on these passes also after the pandemic.
I have no problem with it.
I play Hearthstone when I cannot play WoW. I started playing Diablo Immortal o mobile for the same reason. Yet, I don’t buy anything on Hearthstone and only once I bought the Battle Pass on Diablo.
Trying to pvp on Diablo Immortal made me see that pvp on WoW is not so bad as people tell (me included haha). Here you can enjoy it playing casually, on Diablo you can’t, it’s impossible.
Weird, it’s true for me! I live on a park and I’ve met and seen a lot of people playing Pokémon go. Even scored some free beers at a restaurant cause the barista plays pokemon go and I gave them a few pointers 