Got Final Fantasy ATB yesterday. It's actually quite a nice little retro FF nostalgia game. It's basically a collection of SNES-era sprites of enemies, character classes, items and attacks. An encyclopaedia of sorts. You have your characters line up on the right (I have 22 lined up so far, there's probably a few more). You touch them and they attack, after you attack, the enemies attack back, if you don't attack, neither do they.
It's be a fun little game were it not such a horrible, cynical attempt to extract as much cash through microtransactions as possible. I hate this. I can excuse an indie developer for doing it when a higher price would damage their sales, but S-E don't need to be doing it. You pay £2.50 for the game, and there's plenty to go on from there. After the main game, you can pay £2.50 for Midgar, £2.50 for Zanarkand, £2.50 for a FFXII level. There are also 35 FF heroes which you can purchase for 69p each. I don't know if you can unlock these through gameplay but I assume not. If you buy everything it's going to run you £30, for what is essentially a game where you rub your finger over the right side of the screen until you run out of guys. They could have made this £4.99 and made all the aforementioned stuff unlockable like a proper game should. I doubt it even entered their minds, it looks designed as a cash grab right from the off. But now you either get half a game, or you pay through the nose for something that has virtually no gameplay and no new content, just reused SNES sprites.
It's be a fun little game were it not such a horrible, cynical attempt to extract as much cash through microtransactions as possible. I hate this. I can excuse an indie developer for doing it when a higher price would damage their sales, but S-E don't need to be doing it. You pay £2.50 for the game, and there's plenty to go on from there. After the main game, you can pay £2.50 for Midgar, £2.50 for Zanarkand, £2.50 for a FFXII level. There are also 35 FF heroes which you can purchase for 69p each. I don't know if you can unlock these through gameplay but I assume not. If you buy everything it's going to run you £30, for what is essentially a game where you rub your finger over the right side of the screen until you run out of guys. They could have made this £4.99 and made all the aforementioned stuff unlockable like a proper game should. I doubt it even entered their minds, it looks designed as a cash grab right from the off. But now you either get half a game, or you pay through the nose for something that has virtually no gameplay and no new content, just reused SNES sprites.
