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The issue with Match-3 games
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The issue with Match-3 games
The major issue is the life/energy system.

You can only realistically get so far before you hit the paywall. If you're like me and you're not going to spend real money on a mobile game, you practically have to use upwards of ten or more lives just to pass a single level. When it takes half an hour just to refresh one life, knowing that most people have lives outside of casual gaming, it could take days just to pass a single level.

One good thing I am happy to have discovered are those match-3 games that are not reliant on the life/energy system.

Here are three I particularly have enjoyed:

Classic:
Jewel Mash

Bubble:
Bubble Shooter

Cube:
Jewel Blast
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#2
RE: The issue with Match-3 games
I get round that by not being a gamer. It’s amazing the amount of frustration you can avoid.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The issue with Match-3 games
Good games are built around 3 layers of game-loops (or more) around a central story (side-quests do not need apply). What OP is describing is basically a Skinner box.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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RE: The issue with Match-3 games
Meat and 2 veg.

What do I win?
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: The issue with Match-3 games
(August 15, 2020 at 4:41 pm)brewer Wrote: Meat and 2 veg.

What do I win?

A watch and chain. Wink

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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