It's like 60 maps I think they said. Maybe 70? I forget but they do say the number in the preview video.
Also Ark didn't say this bit but I felt the need to correct it: Clash has way more than one map lol. The maps change as you climb rating. They're more like map skins though, lanes are the same I think.
I've played other time waster games like the Torchlight mobile game. Simple no brainer 'ARPG' that cycles through maps and just gets progressively harder, with some daily 'Raid boss' fight which you solo but contribute overall damage on the server to defeating. It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either and I had fun for what it was worth.
I'm playing some Galaga mobile phone F2P garbage right now, and it's totally P2W style game bogged with ads, but it's mindless fun that I can kill some time with. I actually found Hearthstone too involved to be a time-waster, it's really much more of a sit down and game game than a time-waster. I think this would be much more accessible.
I don't really care too much about people thinking this needs to appeal to the WoW crowd or not. I don't think Blizz even cares considering they embraced the cringe with their whole announcement.
I just really fundamentally disagree with you on most of these things. I dont think you have any grounds to say that Blizzard has an especially nefarious business model compared to other companies - you just assume the worst imo.
Ive never heard Greg Street say anything of the sort - it seems like an odd thing to say.
I've met some of my best RL friends though wow - and today i play wow with 4 people who live within 30 minutes of my home. I think its a strawman and demeaning to try and belittle friendships just because they have started online.Yet, socially week people could get addicted by those weak social bonds,
WoW is not even the worst mmo - by far - when it comes to its monitization model. I honestly dont think you have done the research to be able to say that.
As for the last few quotes you just lost me. I honestly dont really know how to argue against your consipracy theory about blizzard hiring guilds. I dont know where this comes from - there is literally no evidence of this.
As for items and AH and gold and so forth i just generally disagree aswell.
There is a major difference.
A company you buy/lease a product from is not your friend. There is a reason why being betrayed by a friend is one of the worst things - as that is someone you are supposed to be able to trust. A 12 year old is a kid - he has no financial accountability - it is you as the parent that has that accountability.
Its like going down to a grocery store with a billboard displaying icecream for sale. Then giving your son your wallet, covering your eyes and ears and just standing still for 5 minutes. Then being angry at the store for your son going in and buying icecream.
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Also let me add this.
Blizzard does not make popups linking to other gatcha games or popus linking directly to instant pay services in the middle of playing their mobile games. Most other mobile games do that. And thats literally the worst offender when it comes to children because if you have a card attached they can unknowingly spend money on, as an example, an ipad or iphone. THAT is despicable. And MOST mobile game companies do it.
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The game does not do so, the game right out says if you are underage you should not make any urchases without parent permission. If the parent just freely gives their kid the phone and credit card then it's their fault if anything happens. Phone have parental features built in to stop kids from being able to make purchases. Or limit the amount of money that can be spent per Day, week, month. And year. So if you givenyour kid your phone and card and they spend 500$ they it your fault not theirs. Cause they could do the exact same on literally any game on any console not just mobile.
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It's 79 maps so far from what they said and from what towellie showed us in his gameplay coverage. With many more to come as dungeons and raids were not playable.
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Nope they are varrying layouts and varrrying setups of nodes and items placed across the maps, each map is unique in some way to another. But yeah true I forgot clash does have map skins, but that's it. No actual layout changes.
i mean we have literally seen gameplay my dude from a couple streamers, and its accurate, but sure go off i guess.
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nah he wants us to be forced to take pictures of our face and our ID to send to the government in order to check, before we can boot up our games.
man people complain about queue times, just wait till they find the government ID check queue.
Fucking what?
Instead of parents not being pieces of shit and being responsible for their child he wants the government to set up a system that has to keep track and verify every... single...person that uses a phone?
Like that dude is usually so delusional and zero clue what reality is but holy hell this is a new low.
i mean yeah they dont show all fucking 70, this is just getting sad, but towlie and others have videos on it, and have showed a fair few maps, with none of them being repeats my dude. all of them are unique layouts, of course some are similiar to others, but turret locations, gold locations, treasure chest locations, meeting stone locations, and of course how many of each exist are all different per map, so there is yes 70+ maps that all play differently, its not "the same like 5 maps with just a different skin" All the ones i could find, best shots i could get of each.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/140632...hild-payments/
lol apple honorable?
also wanna point out why you think blizzard would not do the same thing when they literally have a record of freely refunding people