Posts by RyokuMas

Re: downvotes.

nothing or no-one can beat Eadon of the past though.

I can think of a contender for that particular crown... except their bile is more for "anything non-google" rather than "anything Microsoft"...

Re: RyokuMas

@Big Van Vader

Great use of selective reading there! Yup, I'll admit that if look up Blade Force Rescue on the UK store, of the ten reviews that are displayed, five are one-star... and the others are five-star. But then I never said that my games are everyone's cup of tea... Similarly, I was not making a statement about the state of the WP app store - or did you miss the bit about my one iPhone game making a better return than all my Android games put together?

My observation is that you probably did make more on WP as they have very few apps and WP users are more likely to try your game

I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. When was the last time you scrolled more than a couple of pages down through any search results or app store listing - unless you were looking for a specific result? The fact is that you have to scroll through several pages of games to reach mine on any platform, and believe me, I have no false illusions about the games I make for a bit of fun - I do not expect anyone to be searching for them specifically.

Yes, Android may have more AAA games than Windows phone. But in my experience as a hobbyist game developer, what Android has a lot more of is poorly-made clones attempting to make a quick buck out of the latest craze - even the latest version of Android is joining in with a built-in Flappy Bird clone. It also has a lot more piracy and, by their own admission users who are not willing to pay for stuff.

Simply put - my original post was merely a statement of my experiences. Someone then accused me of being something I am not and asked me to back up my claims, so I did. And I'm afraid your response to that reads like that of someone who cannot accept that someone else's experiences do not marry up with their ideals.

"Windows Phone 7 - Ok, you'll need to rewrite all your apps for Windows Phone 8"

At the risk of someone branding me a shill again, the games I built in XNA for Windows Phone 7 ran perfectly happily for WP8 with no modification. Just speaking from my experience.

Of course, with minimal modification, they also ran on Android and iOS, thanks to Xamarin and Monogame, which feels a bit ironic: if this does happen, I'll still be writing in C# for Windows Phone, but using the Android build to deploy...

Re: @LDS - A question

But it looks Google is very good at brainwash people, the word "free" helps a lot, it looks.

And this brings me back to the point I made some time ago about predatory pricing. When something - especially a package of services - is offered for free, you have to look beyond a simple price tag and look at the total value of what is being offered. And then consider whether or not it is possible for a competitor to offer an alternative with a similar value.

The fact is that when you consider the entire package that Google offers "for free" - search, analytics, maps, mobile OS, web browser, gmail, youtube, Google Plus (for what it's worth) and god knows what else, it becomes very clear that only a handful of companies have the finances to offer a competing package - and then they face a stiff uphill battle to gain traction against Google's dominance, especially when so many elements of this package cross-sell each other.

This effectively stifles competition and innovation, which is not good for the IT industry as a whole.

Re: Another good reason for Windows Phone

Well, if the simple little Galaxian-inspired game that I wrote can do it with almost zero promotion, then I guess there are plenty of others...

Re: Be careful of what you ask for!

... but at the same time, it would prove their monopoly beyond any reasonable doubt.

Re: Google reminds of Microsoft of old

Been saying this (and getting downvoted) for months, but it's so true, even down to the astroturfers and the anticompetitive practices case...

Re: article misses out the most important information...

who won?

The Windows Phone users who got the whole thing on camera...

Re: Tut tut tut

Way to go on reading before posting.

Of course, the fact that this is a technical preview build - install at your own risk - and the models that are getting bricked have only just been added doesn't matter...

"Me see windowz fone article... me must post..."

Of course, this does not for one moment excuse Microsoft for dropping a bollock (again!), but please, El Reg, please, please can we have a mechanism for hiding or auto-withdrawing posts that get enough downvotes?

Re: Don't be evil

Too bad they've now become the very thing they were supposed to be standing against...

Re: Competition Violation?

Don't use them

Ok, find me the links for websites that provide the internet services I want to use that do not include Google Analytics or any other link to Google's products, and I'll use those instead.

Re: Roadmap

Android's roadmap is to have better integration with your car, watch and entire digital life

... and send all that information to Google for profiling and sale to the highest bidder.

TFTFY

Re: You have a LUMIA???

I asked for that functionality over two years ago.

The sad truth is some people just can't let things go... we can only hope that they eventually go postal enough to get themselves banned, a la Eadon

Re: How much extortion tax is due?

Oooh look, a comment that takes an article about mobile and then uses a point completely irrelevant to the actual context of the article as a vehicle to post oh-so-predictable opinions about an organisation that the poster of said comment has a grudge against that was not even mentioned in said article.

All that's missing is a capitalised "wah wah wah fail" closing line and I would have said this was classic Eadon (before he lost the plot completely).

Back under your bridge...

Re: No @ Trevor Potts

Holy shit, that was probably one of the best counter-rants I have ever read! What a fantastic start to a post-Easter weekend!

Eadon could have done it in one... along with a few others on here...

Re: Unwanted ad injectors aren't part of a healthy ads ecosystem

"Not just web - happening in gaming too with "free to play" - people just don't like paying for software."

Another case for the +100 button! And what makes it worse is that the same people who refuse to pay for stuff then start ranting about how good games do make money and if you're not making any return then your game must be shit...

Pint for you, Pete_H!

Re: Not SkyNet, but...

Any company with the word "ethic" in their name should have to rename themselves following signing up with Google - false advertising otherwise!

Re: "Google turns creepy" !?

"They haven't suddenly become creepy overnight, their entire business model involves spying on you"

Ah, but it's only recently that people have started waking up to this fact and ignoring the Google faithful who keep trying to reassure them that "everything's fine, no, no, you can always choose not to use Google, it's all in your best interest, blame Apple, blame Microsoft, blame the NSA..." etc., etc.

Re: It's not the hardware, stoopid

"so they're not really going to tempt any Android users just by supporting Android devices."

I don't know... I mean, how often do we hear of the "latest, greatest" update to Android, that will only reach the phones if/when the carriers see fit? I'd much rather have "Patch Tuesday" than "Patch-by-new-handset"...

Re: As far as this article is concerned I have no problems with the general tone........

Yeah, better told "it's fugly" now, rather than a rerun of Win 8: launch only to get told "it's fugly"...

If only...

5) Get loads of bad reviews from kiddie gamers who have never played the original versions, stating "costs too much", "crap controls", "needs a tutorial", etc., etc....

TFTFY

Mobile gaming space is rapidly becoming a very horrible place... more's the pity.

"Anthill inside"

Ah Hex... full of ants and still faster than my mother-in-law's old Vista box...

Re: My advice would be never to start using any Google service other than basic search...

"How long before that morphs into something undesirable?"

It already has. Disregarding any allegations that Google search results are biased, the first [n] search results are usually not the best results, but adverts!

Unfortunately, it'll take some kind of major shake-up to break Google's monopoly over hearts and minds (in common parlance, "Google" has become to "search the internet" what "Hoover" is to "vacuum-clean") - something on an even bigger scale than the MS IE bundling fiasco (there are people out there still using IE).

Re: Secret documents?

No difficult to keep things secret if you control the de facto search facility...

Re: $deity

The correct response in this situation is "tout est pardonne, mon ami, tot est pardonne"...

Re: El Reg Exclusive!

Ah, always there with the same tired old FUD, eh Bob? Why not go chat to the Google high ups some more and see if they can give you some new ideas?