The answer can't be "so write a different type of application".
Certainly these are good strategies, but not suited to every kind of
game; seeing that type of game disappear from the market is not a
forward-thinking solution. Some people WANT these simple little games.

On Feb 23, 9:36 am, Steve Barr <barr8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/23/09, Stoyan Damov <stoyan.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  So if I'm a customer, I could buy, say[1], a game on Friday, play all
> >  weekend and return it on Monday.
>
> >  Google has got to be joking.
>
> >  [1] Arcade games are more vulnerable to this WTF because you can
> >  literally play the entire game in 1 weekend unless it's *very* hard.
>
> So design games with replay value.   Randomize things, periodically release
> downloadable levels, whatever.
>
> Once Google gets its act together and stops being the laughing stock
> of the mobile world, there is the potential for games and other
> software to be better on the Android platform because a) they can be
> due to a better programming/runtime environment and b) they have to be
> because of the Market policies.
>
> Steve
> --
> Yes, Chinese is easy if people speak slowly to you, in proper tones
> and without an accent. But this is not how Chinese is spoken. --
> renzhe
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