• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wild. I remember Angry Birds was everywhere, almost Pokemon-levels of public appeal and generating wheelbarrows of money.

    And then poof, like beanie babies and tamogatchis.

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      1 year ago

      They went from ‘1 dollar to get the full game’, with starwars deals and so on to ‘generic p2w for whales’. The innovation wasn’t here anymore and they shot themselves in the foot with dumb pricing/gameplay.

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      1 year ago

      It’s still popular with some young kids, my son still plays the series and loves the movies. You just don’t see everyone and their grandma playing it anymore.