I’m not following the hate train on mobile games. I don’t get it: with games like Honky Star Rail and Pokemon GO, which people obviously love and spend money playing, it doesn’t make sense. If the objective measure is financial success or just popularity, phone games win; if you disagree that these are the measures of a good game, tell that to the industry because they don’t care about your subjectivity.
Is this just a case of old gamers being jealous and gate keeping their time-waster hobbies?
Ive been interested in mobile gaming since I got my iPod touch as a teen and I’ve never given it up. Sure you have to play 20 game to find one good one but thats true for many of the retro systems I play as well. Games like Planet Life, Part Time UFO, Brawl Quest (not Stars!) make it worth it. I think its just easier for people to dismiss the whole category than to dig through the muck and while that’s fine it doesn’t excuse the hate towards the communities that do engage with it.