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Partshade
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A more profitable demographic, sadly. I don’t agree with what they did, but I understand why. Kids love those games because they’re colorful and, quite honestly, thoughtless. Literally anybody can be good at them, and feeling successful keeps you coming back. When you’re not, there’s the enticement to spend some cash on boosts.

The reason why I believe the original Angry Birds games weren’t profitable is because we simply didn’t need the Power-Ups. Some of the levels of the bubble and match-3 games are unpredictable and actually required PUs, but Angry Birds always had some kind of strategy behind it, defeating the purpose of PUs for those who really cared to learn it.

And sadly, Rovio wants the old games off the app stores. I only learned this just recently, but Google Play doesn’t allow you to delete your own apps, only unlist them from being visible to those who don’t have it yet. Apple does allow it, and now there’s not even a trace of the old games over there. If they were possible to get rid of on Google, I bet they’d be gone in a heartbeat.