Sell me a service, or a product, not a gimmick. That's what I'm saying. Im talking about IAP.
The value is in scarcity, but it's artificially scarce. It's contrived.
Seriously? On a forum dedicated to startups and development, many who like me do app and game development or lead app and game development teams; you can't figure out who I'm talking to? Seriously?
Here is the deal, we simply haven't had the time to determine if this is safe. And anyone who says it is is lying, because that's simply impossible to tell at this point. We know that with our best intentions and cutting edge science, we created margarine, something to save the arteries of the world. Only to find out that we didn't understand the science well enough, and margarine was essentially the stuff causing the problem. So, am I willing to use people as an experiment so they don't have a vitamin deficiency? Not yet. I want to see far more evidence, and I want to see a lot more studies conducted over at least 10-20 years.
That's amusing, because I looked at the thermometer, and thought, oh that's good, I can use that. But a chilli pepper, do we really need a character for a chilli pepper? So to answer your question, unicode is trying to bridge the gap in communication that offers a language independent set of recognizable glyphs that can be used to communicate. And one mans chilli pepper is another mans thermometer.
Bread is a heavily processed food, and it's essentially sugar, and it's so easily broken down into glucose, this process is so easy, it first starts in your mouth as amalayse (sp?) begins digestion while you masticate. A common intro bio lesson is to chew a soda cracker until it begins to get sweet. Whole wheat breads are sugar with soluble and insoluble materials that aids in moving food material through the gut because we evolved eating a lot of crap that we couldn't digest. So to suggest that I've evolved in 7000 years to digest milk, but not evolved to no longer require fibre requires genetic proof, and I've not seen that study. Evolution doesn't work that way regardless, and certainly not over as little as 200 generations that were geographically locked genetically for all but the last few hundred years. That said, just because it's processed, doesn't immediately make it bad for us. Olive oil, yoghurt, etc... all have some observable health benefits. And products like cheeses and bacon are absolutely processed, and show little to no health benefit, but if you took them out of my diet, I may suffer depression, so I unscientifically say they cure depression (in me).
Can you cite the claims you make, like the original EULA, and correspondence which said it was okay to monetize gameplay? Otherwise, I have to disregard this comment. You may be right, but without those pieces of information, I have to defer to the post by the founder which could have legal ramifications if proved false.
I'd much rather people pay for stability. Tricking people to pay for 64 bytes of code and a new color pallet for a diamond encrusted pixel sword in order to offer stability was a mistake. Education needed to happen, this shit is hard, and it's a lot of work. When I go to a store, I don't see a sign "Pizza is free" only to walk over and find that if I want to put toppings on the pizza, well those cost $0.99 per single slice of pepperoni on the pizza. In order to get a full pizza experience, including peppers, cheese, and sauce, I'm not paying $30 for the free pizza. It's dishonest, and we're the ones allowing it to happen.
The value is in scarcity, but it's artificially scarce. It's contrived.
Seriously? On a forum dedicated to startups and development, many who like me do app and game development or lead app and game development teams; you can't figure out who I'm talking to? Seriously?