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DaBoid
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I have no objection to spending real money for a game that I enjoy. I gladly bought both the iPhone and PC versions of the various AB games and paid for the Mighty Eagle update. No problem.

Some levels are challenging. Others are easy. That’s part of the gameplay. Experienced players need a challenge, while new players need early success. I get that.

My objection to in-app purchases is when Rovio has a financial incentive to make a level very difficult, just so compulsive “completers” will spend and spend and spend real money to get characters (ie Space Eagles) for game completion. It ceases to be a fun pasttime and becomes an expensive exercise in frustration.

I used all the free Space Eagles I could get, then lost interest in ABSpace with many unfeathered levels left. For a while, you could get a Space Eagle every day, without fail, by merely opening the game, but then they switched to this lottery-type thing that returns a Space Eagle only occasionally. That’s when I abandoned AB Space for good.

I am a programmer and a database administrator. I expect to get paid for my work, and I fully expect to pay other programmers for their work, game programmers included. However, I do not deliberately write bugs and slow-downs into my own programs, then expect to get additional payment to find and fix my own bugs.