Not GTA, not Star Citizen, not any game with actual gameplay, story, or anything like that.
Just a freaking Niantic reskin for freaking Monopoly.
I live in the wrong timeline.
I’m more of a board game connoisseur and seeing people play monopoly when there is a whole ecosystem of much better designed board games out there that either already have dedicated apps or good online implementations absolutely enrages me :<
Monopoly, stripped of it’s context as a political statement, is a very mean and cruel work of art.
Most stupid game ever created. Downloaded it and played for 15 minutes then Uninstalled. What a waste of 15 minutes.
And all marketing budget at that, we don’t even know what it cost to develop.
Aka money laundering.
Who the fuck audits a “gaming” company??
No one
Apparently it earned this dubious honor purely from marketing… It has a marketing budget of 1 billion dollars. But it’s allegedly made 5 billion, so… guess it was worth it to someone.
I’ve never even heard of it. Is that successful marketing?
Well you wouldn’t have spent any money on it and they’re raking in the dough, so yes actually.
Funny, this is the first I’ve heard of it.
inb4 OP is on the marketing team
Me too. My guess is that the marketing was targeted mostly towards kids.
Its marketing is 99% on shitty mobile games that have adds everywhere. If you don’t play shitty mobile games or have a DNS level add block you won’t see it.
Definitely not. Other way around. Millennial/Gen X +
I’m not sure I see that either, those generations know how dangerous and damaging monopoly is. You’re not a monopoly fan and still have friends or family…
6 consecutive wins, and 1 draw in the latest game against my father in law. We each claim it was a charity call but he’s the sweetest guy in the world so I know I woulda taken him in the end.
My sister’s boy, though, he plays it cold. It’s a nail biter from the first roll if he’s in. We only played once and he stonewalled me so hard we both agree it was pure dumb luck he landed on one of the yellows and I was prepared with my hail-mary setup despite the fact he practically lives at the power station for how often he misses the yellows. Then I turned the screws hard and hit up the chest for a ride to St James for the pain and me hooting like a bastard.
We are a mean bunch. Last family game they all ganged up to knock me out early but I hung on like a cockroach until they got bored and fell to infighting. Soon as they had to start mortgaging their crap to fund the chrome I could breathe. How I crowed when my sister gave up. I try to be a good winner (or loser) but being an absolute dick is important for monopoly so they don’t play that game with me leat I lose next time.
Hate that game. Wanna play?
Seriously, Monopoly is one of the worst games in existence.
But that’s expected, since the game it cloned was actually two games, the one was like the current Monopoly, the other one had a property tax system and that one was so balanced that the game never ended. Both games were not made to be played for fun, but to show how different taxation systems lead to different outcomes. They were serious, non-fun games on purpose.
Sorry to make this seem even worse, this isn’t even what you think it is. Not a Niantic gps game.
It’s literally like any other mobile board game. You hit the dice roll button and the piece bounces around the board and your cash goes up. That’s about it. It’s interactive because sometimes where you land takes money away from other players (those you have friended or randos)
There is nothing novel here.
source: my children forced me to play with them when it was super trendy. All of their friends (and their friends parents) were playing. So. Many. Popups. It was CONSTANTLY trying to get you to spend. We did not, but know people who poured money in to keep the dice rolling
edit: also thank you for this, I always like my kids to be aware of why they or their friends are doing something. They’re hyper aware of trends and marketing (but also don’t want to be left behind when their friends are doing something new).
Damn, thanks for the insight. I just read the wiki article and the source claiming the marketing budget of that game, because I couldn’t believe it, and the name Niantic was somewhere in there, so I figured Niantic did what Niantic does. Apparently, it’s not even that.
It’s ridiculous, seriously. Monopoly is a horrible game in it self, and I thought everyone and their dog was already sick of it, but I guess I’m just projecting.
Or pumping the equivalent of the GDP of Samoa into the marketing of some stupid mobile game version of this really bad board game really does something.
Literally every big store that sells boardgames constantly have like 10+ different versions of it. I don’t know who the hell all these Monopoly fans are that are apparently not just buying Monopoly, but buying enough different versions to make it viable to keep offering them, but someone is keeping them in business.
I can only assume new parents of young kids just getting something they remember from when they were a kid. But that can only be half the story. I don’t believe that these people are becoming Monopoly collectors buying up every alternate version that comes out.
I got way too many versions of Monopoly gifted over the years and all of them ended up on our local second hand app.
I don’t know why you’d gift anyone Monopoly. I mean, everyone who wanted to have a copy already has one, but apparently people with no creativity still gift them.
Even funnier, I told my kids it was the most expensive video game and they said, “oh because of Chris Pratt?”
Apparently the ads all featured Chris Pratt.
That’s just nuts.
Oh, that’s it? Fuck it, I’m making Monopoly next, I already made Catan. 😂
But see, you forgot to spend a billion dollars marketing it. That was where you messed up.
May I borrow a billion dollars, pretty please? I have this bag of nickels and a rubber ducky for collateral.
This is extra funny because not only is the gameplay shit on purpose, it’s shit on purpose as a criticism of capitalism.
Monopoly is supposed to be frustrating as a reflection of how frustrating life is under capitalism, and here comes capitalism to sell an even more annoying version full of popups and money grabs.
The death of satire is a well with no end.
Why was it so expensive?
Literally all marketing. $1B in marketing.
I honestly feel kind of proud that I’ve never heard of it. Off the grid and shit.
I’m hardly “off the grid”, but I’ve managed to get enough distance between my eyeballs and the fire hose of ads not to see it more than tangentially, while pocking around the Google Play store.
I do pity anyone who doesn’t have the kind of tech-friendly elders willing/able to scrub all the bloatware off their retail devices, though. Had to spent an hour de-contaminating my mom’s new Samsung because of all the random extra adware packed into it. And with newer mainline devices, it feels like a constant struggle. Heaven help anyone on Windows 11.
I’m the one who my friends turn to for tech advice and omg I am so horrified that some of them never installed an adblocker before. Or just leave preinstalled garbage like mcafee around…
A lot of the modern devices make uninstalling a pain in the ass. Especially if its native bloatware that’s been bundled with the OS.
Ads. $1 Billion marketing budget.
Imagine what a gaming company with a $1billion budget for the game itself (and execs who stay the fuck out of the way instead of repeatedly changing direction…cough…EA…cough) and a marketing budget for whatever they actually spent on the game. We could have had Cyberpunk 4154 with a bit left over.
To be honest, I think there is diminishing returns on more money (look at star citizen for example).
I feel like it would end up a live service game (where the extra money results in content over a long period of time) or just become bloated.
Go on now, git! Didn’t nobody ask you 'bout no logic!
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