Another Android Sucks Article

[HarryBalls]

from an app developer named Matt Gemmell.

http://mattgemmell.com/2012/07/23/closed-for-business/

[BantamCityGames]

Interesting... do you think this is pretty standard? I have a friend that is thinking about going into the free+ad supported model in android. I thought I had heard (previously on this forum) that some people had pretty good results with this model so I'd be interested in getting that confirmed/rejected.

[lennard]

He had me for awhile there but personally, I like an open device. The marketplace will sort itself out in the long run - short term, continued pain for a lot of dev's but it might simply be that there are more dev's in the pool than the marketplace needs. It's a great time to be a game player though.

[EddieX]

Too many people pushing out crap and driving down quality. Sooner or later people will have to start putting out quality warez.
Or maybe not...but you hope they do.

[electronicStar]

It would be more interesting if it didn't come from a rabid apple fan

[James Coote]

The strategy for my own soon-to-be-released android game is to simply target directly those that I think are willing to pay, charge a higher price for the game, and expect that 99% of people who pirate what is a very niche game to begin with are probably not going to play it more than 5 minutes anyway. Taking it from there, I could do paid-for expansions or "freeLC" / fund new content by kickstarter and donations.

The problem is in growing the business from small indie team to something larger, as the medium-sized games that should be the stepping stones are uneconomical

[HarryBalls]

The strategy for my own soon-to-be-released android game is to simply target directly those that I think are willing to pay, charge a higher price for the game, and expect that 99% of people who pirate what is a very niche game to begin with are probably not going to play it more than 5 minutes anyway. Taking it from there, I could do paid-for expansions or "freeLC" / fund new content by kickstarter and donations.

The problem is in growing the business from small indie team to something larger, as the medium-sized games that should be the stepping stones are uneconomical

are you only planning to release this game on android?