Flappy Bird General Verdict
A Flappy future for games
Where one meme arrives others are sure to follow. There’s a lot of concern in the games industry about the effect of app stores on gaming. It’s proved fairly impossible to command a traditionally high price any more to enable the kind of high quality development that gamers are used to; and in-app purchases are notorious among parents and deeply unpopular among customers. We can’t imagine the hatred spawned by microtransactions leading to a good long-term business plan. But meme-based gaming is hardly the resolution we were looking for. While we enjoy memes we’re not comfortable with the App Store being swamped in them.
Apple vets and rejects many apps, but it is actually far more freewheeling than other games publishers. You’re not going to see Flappy Bird on the Xbox Store or sporting an Official Nintendo Seal any time soon. Mind you, you might not see the Official Nintendo Seal anywhere in the near future given the way the Wii U is selling. While Apple’s open approach to developers has allowed a million apps and endless variation, we don’t want the App Store to become the gaming equivalent of Meme Generator. We doubt Apple would let it come to that, but the question still remains: what is the games industry turning into?
At the end of the day Flappy Bird is still a one-star game.
OUR VERDICT
Flappy Bird is a terrible game, but it’s harmless fun. It’s got a high profile because of a so-bad-it’s-good quality, social media humour and is free. And it's nice to see a free game rather than one that pretends to be free then shakes you down for in-app purchases. Flappy Bird is ruthlessly hard to play though, and each game is mercifully short. It’s nice when the video games industry occasionally throws these curveballs, and we're sure some executives are cranking through numbers to see if this is the start of a new trend of "Tappy Flappy" games. We wouldn't bank on it though. We think the meme here is more important than the game. For now it's a meaningless diversion but in the long run we’d rather Apple’s App Store didn’t start to resemble a gaming equivalent of Meme Generator.
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