Do you think HA suffers from this as ...
Food for thought.
Apple's Favorite Strategy Game is a Financial Disaster.
Outwitters is a free to play iOS game with in-app purchases for additional teams. According to the developers, this model was a financial flop.
Does HA suffer from this as well? How will it affect RE's attitude and commitment towards this game?
I wouldn't be surprised if the avatar packs made all the difference in HA's profitability over Outwitters.
Outwitters was just too dull for me. The different "races" barely felt different. And I hated, HATED the fog of war.
I think it's the FOW that really broke that game for me - I'm used to games where the entire board is visible, and having a FOW like an RTS just didn't feel right.
For what it's worth, Outwitters says they have about 500,000 users, and the iOS leaderboards says that HA has about 350,000 users, so maybe it's down to monetisation per user. I guess the samey races just meant that people didn't feel like splashing out.
[offtopic-flame] just because someone of apple 'love' outtwitters, doesnt mean apple does. I tested outtwitters and well.. I would like to say in a cliche way. its a chinese clone of weewars and hero academy together, lol.
It contains 3 Teams, which are all the same, just cosmetic is different and they have each one unit different. The maps are not really balanced (not a bit) and 5 HP for the castle are too low for how easy you can make dmg. Building fast speeded units and let them make one damage, makes the opponent already worry how to defend. The fog of war, doesnt really make the game better, more difficult for player, who never played the map than for the insiders.Yes it has some nice features, but it makes for me not better [/offtopic-flame]
lol, now enough spaming about how I like it. I dont think Hero academy has the same problems like Outtwitters. I have no idea, if they are doing good or bad, but when they are on steam and in the chinese market. I think they could make some good some pillars for Hero academy.
PS:
Weewars is an old browser turnbased strategy game, which is in the same genre as the old games of Battle Island or Advance Wars. You have a set of unit and some buildings, which you can capture and build units, the end of the game is the total annihilation of the opposite. (Its quite balanced as long the fan-made maps are balanced)
I really hate this forum construct, the features it contains are not as they should be and it misses many good things..
Personally I don't like outwitters at all.not enough differences in the teams for me.i much prefer HAs style,gameplay,teams just everything about it.and ha gives more stuff to purchace for fans so i don't think it had suffered the same.
feel free to send me a game on HA,username is ubkrandy.i play mainly tribe :)