Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Pros and Difficulties of Boom Beach

Boom Beach has many pros clearly, I mean it is one of the biggest communities worldwide, one of the top sold games on App Store, and one of the top grossing free download games on iTunes! I think that the facts speak for themselves when your hear stats like that, obviously people love the game and the way it plays. I would say the biggest pros about the game are how much it relates back to common life, people can start even with only a basic knowledge of military terms and be able to relate to what is going on. The terms used for troops and defenses and weapons are easy and only get more developed as the game goes on. Another big pro of this game for the person and creator, Supercell, is the fact that it starts out as a free download, but then allows you to excel as fast as you want based on how much money you are willing to spend. This is good for Supercell because people are inherently competitive and want to be the best around, so it encourages them to spend money which keeps the staff payed and allows for frequent updates, never allowing the costumer to get board. The positive for the player is similar. The player can chose to either just play for fun and excel at their own pace, or if they have extra money laying around and are really committed, they can get going as fast as they want, depending on how much they are willing to spend. The only negative that can be conceived comes from the same idea surrounding the pay to get better idea. If the best players are all just rich people who can pour tons of money into their island and buy everything new with every update, then it creates an unfair advantage for those who are rich and people who can't pour tons of money in are at a disadvantage to getting on the leaderboards.
This is a perfect example of someone who can just spend tons of money to get as good as possible. 

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