EDIT: That's like... the perfect metaphor. Show your support on Patreon.com/YongYea or PayPal.me/YongYea! It's completely optional, but even $1 a month contribution will go a long way. Also, follow me on twitter.com/YongYea for the latest updates. TOP PATRONS - Thelionsam (Cipher) - Shawn Duane Cottrell (Cipher) - Willie Houston (Big Boss) - KMille (Boss) - Michael Redmond (Boss) - Alex Moretti (Boss) - Jonathan Ball (Boss) - ComfyHat (Boss) - J Black (Boss) - Steve Colby (Boss) - Justconst (Boss) - Brenton Brown (Boss) - Jamie Alder (Boss) - Christopher Horkey (Boss) - Hiroshi Miyagusuku (Boss) - Andrew Hendricks (Boss) - John A Perez (Boss) - Pawel Dziemian (Legendary) - Jonah Ferguson (Legendary) - Darius Harvey (Legendary) - Jake Betts (Legendary) - Princess Stabbity (Legendary) - Teemu Hattukangas (Legendary) - JMorro (Legendary) - Darien Cunningham (Legendary) - Matthew Riggs (Legendary) - PrismatDragoon (Legendary) - Jade Rose (Legendary) - D Kurtti (Legendary) - Christopher Davis Kildahl (Legendary)
YongYea I so knew this was coming down I play the game I downloaded it to my phone and I played for no more than 45 minutes before they were starting to ask you for money and they didn't even allow you to complete the mission that's why I am mediately got rid of it on my phone and I wrote a message on the bulletin board saying stay away from this game unless you want to spend copious amounts of money to play it. Cuz what I'm talking about is that your character ended up being strangled by these weeds and you need to perform the light wand to remove these Vines and you couldn't remove these Vines until you paid $0.99 are $5 or whatever amount to have the amount of money in order to free yourself and soon as I saw that that's when I got rid of the game. And especially Harry Potter where a lot of kids will be playing this game.
YongYea I do definitely agree I mean the other games that I've played are not any better but at least they allow you to complete the mission before they start nickeling and diming you but this Harry Potter game was great in the midst of a campaign that they wanted to charge you money just to complete the mission. And they're using the Harry Potter brand to basically a dipped kids to pay money to be able to complete missions art even play the game.
You forgot to mention that each mission is on a timer, so if you don't finish the mission before the timer runs out, it resets, so then you have to start the entire mission over. For example, the one you feature here has an 8 hour timer, so if you don't play again for 8 hours, you have to redo it, and reuse the energy again, putting you right back into the stranglehold of the buy-to-continue circle of hate.
Hermione: "It's Devil's Snare. You have to pay gems! If you don't, it'll only kill you faster." Aaah, what a classic moment from the Philosopher's Stone!
I love those scenes of Harry running around asking Dumbledore to borrow his credit card so he could afford to smile. That was a great arc in Prisoner of Azkaban.
Still free to play. Guessing you idiots never played mobile games like this. Quite a lot of games have an energy system for your actions. You're just s bunch of whiney bitches.
Zambletons Actually, you need fire or some kind of light for them to release you. Though the more you struggle the harder they will hold on to you, that's why you need to relax.
You forgot the fact that you have a maximum amount of time where you have to spend the energy. If you take too long the event fails and you have to start again. My girlfriend played it and could literally not overcome some events because she had to work and could obviously not log into the game every 30 minutes or so to spend the energy before it capped. Leading to an impassable wall at some point without real money transactions.
That's disguisting! This absolutely proves without a doubt that this isn't a game, but simply a themed money making scam. I can only hope that some law is passed to punish devs that create these type of rip offs. I'm so sorry that this has happened to her....and indeed to anyone!
kharmachaos667 yes same reason I stopped playing. Few days ago I accidentally It again. After much reluctance, I played it. Well they have made it better than before. But there still 3 hour waiting time to unlock next missions.
worst part is, if you're not careful with your tapping, the moment you're out of energy mid-action, you will hit the "spend gems" button immediatly, which have NO confirmation screen, so you either tap slow and careful or spend gems accidentaly. That can NOT be accidental.
I have to honestly confess I never read the books so I wouldn't know. but the game is evidently based off of the movie. :P and you need energy to watch the movie.
These greedy corporate parasites who influence developers to put predatory MTX in their games, coincidentally also hate sunlight exposing their shady and unethical business practices, just like devils snare.
You know what's funny? You escape the Devil's Snare by not moving, and yet the game forces you to struggle in order to save yourself. It's not only a shitty practice, but also artificially inserted in a lore-breaking scenario.
Keep in mind that I never played this and don't intend to, so if there is an actual logic reason behind that, please, tell someone that cares because I sure as hell don't. It's shitty either way.
Videogames then after beating the game: You unlocked a secret door! Videogames now after beating the game: I finally bought the DLC to unlock that secret door! Seriously, it sucks and A LOT of games now do this. Soon Pokémon will do this. Too bad TLoZ is doing this bs now.
ShinySpiritomb 33, yes, but it should be something EARNED in the game. Instead of making people pay money just to get a little more of the story included into the game.
Looks like you've ran out of energy! Energy recharges every 4 minutes. Wait for your energy to be recharged or buy now! I did my waiting! 12 years! In Azkaban!
Video Games: Press A to struggle out of the monster's grasp Mobile Games: Pay (insert insane amount of money, here) to struggle out of the monster's grasp
@@hanatoro6399 the people who do this dont even earn much money. they release a bad produkt and you dont like it, thats ok, but saying either be successful or go to jail is stupid. some people go hot for pay2win games. you are like those people who believes gore movies are bad and should be forbidden. you are literally arguing against freedom.
This is something you would see out of a parody or something, not an actual game. Holy shit, to think that I used to buy things like this when o was younger.
EA ruined Starwars WB ruined Harry potter Konami ruined MGS Ubisoft ruined (or rather milked) Assassins Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon Microtansactions will be out the door if this keeps up. I'm going to guess the next one on the list to mess with a franchise is a gaming company with an insatiable avarice
Also it's not an RPG. It's barely a game. You just click on things, and wait timers. This is not an RPG. Would it be so hard to release a proper Harry Potter RPG starring our own character for the PC/consoles? Probably not, but then they can't put this energy shit into it.
It's more like a visual novel. I didn't have all this issue y'all are talking about because I've only ever played mobile games and I'm used to this kind of waiting. If they didn't put a timer on it, just imagine how many people would throw it aside after completion. They should probably just put up a paid version with unlimited energy instead of the scam free-to-play. That way they still earn the money and avoid any sort of backlash.
If i remembered it correctly there’s a game years before this similar to what you’re looking for. Visual novel, dueling, potion making, wand-flicking, it has it all. PlayStation did a pretty good job on it.
Sora Jack I think that is the core of the problem. Many people playing on their phones don't know anything but the "clash of clans" - "farmville" - kind of game.
It has 4,4 stars on the appstore. The reviews all say "Why are you all complaining about this being a "cashgrab" game? You just have to wait a little. Don't be so impatient."...
Holy shit, I miss when games where about creating an unique experience. About the power of interactive art. Im sorry but most publishers and corporations ruin games and art.
Woken One Games are still about art, you're just looking in the wrong places. Games released under larger publishers generally lack soul because the design process is industrialized, but there are large numbers of smaller developers that are dedicated to creating immersive, interactive experiences. The biggest shackles that hold the industry back are publishers that exploit both the developers and consumers for profit. Even people who work for the most insidious of companies like EA want to make a good game that people enjoy.
JackOfen yes I'm sure all those games from the Ness era makes any game in this generation crap, I just can't believe I never knew that all this time every game I've played has been nothing but a cash grab, and that no developers make actual games
boomboy b Trying to be sarcastic? Look, I just named the golden age of gaming. That doesn't mean that all games today are corporate, soulless cashgrabs. But the PS3, 360, Wii era was the start of microtransactions, dlcs, unfinished games being released, content that was on the disc but was locked and much MUCH more corporate meddling. Of course you have no idea of the difference, because you never lived it. To you it has become the normal state because thats how you grew up with it and thats terrifying how companies can get away with shit like that Oh and btw, there are TONS of NES, SNES, Mega Drive, PS1, PS2, N64 and Gamecube games that are FAR superior in gameplay and originality then what is called AAA today.
Alright, let's do this... 1. Harry Pother and the Philosophers Scam 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Micro-transactions 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Electronic Arts 4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Pride and Accomplishment 5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Season Pass 6. Harry Potter and the Purely Cosmetic Prince 7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Downloadable Content Feel free to add your own to the mix.
Well in reality we spend aproximetaly 60% of energy with thinking. But there are worse examples in this game like take a break in this game as he mentioned.
Let me get this straight..the entire game is based on whatever you do requires energy? If that were the case, Harry Potter must’ve been loaded with gems.
This can't even be classified as an idle game. Idle games actually have progression which you can look at. This is just waiting to wait more, with nothing in between.
Don't forget there's a timer for the full activity as well. If you don't perform the activity in full it resets, so you get halfway but because you need to wait for energy you forget about the game, the next day you're back at the start of the activity and you have to do it all over again.
This game is literally unplayable. You can only play for 1 min at a time at most before waiting 1+ hours for your Energy to recover. And the clothing items are ridiculously expensive.
This isn't just bullshit business practice. It's also Lore-breaking. The way you get out of Devil's Snare is by doing nothing! It should be Zero energy!
I mean technically you can either do nothing or use lumos to make it let go of you... of course they went with the option that would make people cough up money
Ava Plante but you don’t have to spend any money to use lumos. Just wait until you have more energy. There’s literally no reason to spend money unless you’re so impatient that everything has to be done THAT SECOND
Max Lastra wait what? If this was any other fame How would you like it if you were in the middle of a boss fight and bam you run out of energy to keep playing and the game stops you fom playing for a few minutes like DF. The issue here is they STOP YOU from playing the game unless you pay.
Wakil Ahmed but it’s not stopping you from playing the game. That’s just the game format and mechanism. It’s not like this is an actual video game that’s making you wait, it’s an app. You wait or you pay but no one is making you pay so it’s not that big of a deal. All you have to do is not be an impatient child with the memory span of a goldfish
I agree, but a lot of the games you pay to play have DLC and microtransactions creeping in. What's worse than a cash grabby free game? A cash grabby game that you paid full price for.
sophie m That's been my experience as well. I used to play F2P, but lately I've been dumping out my mobile's library in favor of paid games, 'cause eff this BS.
Wow. That screenshot of the player character being strangled while the game is asking you to pay money to continue is the perfect analogy to what's going on in the game indistry right now.
You do know that WB were the ones that put out Middle Earth Shadow of War, right? The game that basically fucked over its predecessor's signature mechanic, the nemesis system where orcs would remember past encounters with the player, to have a sleazy orc merchant sell them to the player as loot crates.
I hope WB feels good that Roger, the youthful Gryffindor pleb was murdered slowly by asphyxiation because of them. RIP Roger, I’ll always remember him as he was born on my iPad and the precious 30 minutes I spent with him.
@DetectiveBarricade The lootcrates barely gave you an advantage (you can make better orcs just by grinding), weapon drops are crap, and it doesn't make the end grind any faster (the end grind is boring anyway.) Besides they removed them once they learned no one was buying their gold, as you made enough of the earned currency to buy the crates without having to pay a cent. Monolith removed the crates, and not WB by the way.
You know, when I saw this game I was really excited, I thought I would be able to choose my path and feel like a true Hogwarts student. Screw that, said Warner Brothers and they made you watch your own character getting asphixiated because you dont have enough freaking energy to do anything. Well the thing is, every single action you do costs energy which you only have 24 of at the start of the game which is a ridiculously low amount knowing that the game makes you spend energy in things like TAKING A BREAK. I really thought game companies had learned about the topic of making gamers spend money after the disaster that was Star Wars Battlefront 2 but no, it looks as if they keep on doing the same scummy things they did before. Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery will in my opinion go down as one of THE WORST if not the single worst mobile game in the history of games and I know some people will say that almost every mobile game is like that and that is true but the thing is that when you mess with a franchise as big as Harry Potter or Star Wars or anything with enourmous fanbases as is with those two, doing something like that can really maje the franchise look bad and make the fans unhappy so WB I hope you learn about this mistake and make your next game much better than this piece of crap.
Imagine playing a game where you can only die 3 times, then you have to pay a microtransaction before you lose ALL your progress. To make matters seem more urgent, it literally gives you a 10 second countdown timer to pay.
Honestly these things don't need to be referred to as games anymore, it gives them too much credit. I think you should just refer to these type of things as "schemes", a word which adequately captures the dishonesty and unethical nature of these type of products.
Monsieur Jeaques Mobile scheme. Revealing a con job for what it is doesn't mean anybody had faith it. It's good for the community to warn each other about con artists like the people that developed this scheme.
Taxtro Taxtro Taxtro scheme skēm/Submit noun 1. a large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular object or putting a particular idea into effect. "a clever marketing scheme" synonyms: plan, project, plan of action, program, strategy, stratagem, tactic, game plan, course/line of action; More 2. SCOTTISHinformal a public housing complex. "the whole scheme is plunged into darkness, bar the light in Victor's house" verb 1. make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong. "he schemed to bring about the collapse of the government" Google the word "scheme". Each English definition matches my usage.
It's your choice whether or not to pay. Just like it's your choice whether or not to buy pizza over spaghetti or that shirt you saw on clarence. It's not illegal for a business to try and make money, heck, that's ultimately their goal, so stop placing the unnecessary blame on them.
@John Roche I think that was specifically about random loot box style micro-transactions John Roche. Being told to spend money to progress the game is not gambling in any way. I consider this particular Harry Potter game a form of "coercion" micro-transaction, however. It took a while for things like Cigarettes to be properly regulated, and micro-transaction based freemium games are relatively new. Eventually I believe they will be brought under control before they do too much damage. Eve Kopsolias is either a shill or a contrarian. @Purple Team Pyrostrike >Dungeon Keeper What should have been illegal is how EA bribed people into giving it a 5 star review. They wern't even trying to hide it, literally said out in the open for everyone to see that you'd get free in-game currency if you gave it a 5-star review. THAT should have been absolutely illegal.
Its legal if there are no laws written about it. And given that most of the people who write laws think a "Galaxy S6" is four light years west of Canis Major, I don't think we can hope for much.
Any transaction is legal as long as all parties involved agree and neither party is led to believe they're getting something that they're not. I cannot explain to you, however, why there are people who spend money on this. That is why these games exist, because someone somewhere is paying up and making up for the development costs and more. I believe that's a fact that cannot be changed. Just ignore these types of games and move on. It doesn't really have to concern you what some people do with their money, after all, although I suppose you could say it's swaying the gaming industry in a bad direction.
ImAnderZEL Capitalizing on impatience isn't illegal, or else your local quick stop 24/7 gas station wouldn't be charging $3.00 for the same Cola the grocery store charges $1 for. It's a new "convenience fee"
I don’t mind the game, and at first I was stoked when I saw it but then I started playing it and I instantly got irritated at the fact I had to wait forever or fork over cash, it made me even more pissed when I’d come back from waiting only to find out I waited too long and I had to start over. I do actually enjoy the storyline but I just wish they would make a Harry Potter rpg where you could have your own character and make your own choices and relationships for ps4 and other consoles instead of a crappy money hungry mobile game... really disappointing as a Harry Potter fan and if JK Rowling knows about this then that makes me even more disappointed.
you're talking like an addict. As soon as something shakes you out of it, like say the death of a loved one in my case when I was addicted to one, and you can't bring yourself to play a grinder of a "game" and you stop playing, you won't want to play it again. It's not fun, it's a time killer that doesn't do anything for you, it's just there to hook you via brand loyalty. None of these games are fun.
Got GMod? Hogwarts RP. Nah, but really, while the presence of other people can break your immersion and suddenly chaos ensues in the Great Hall when every person is gathered and screaming at the top of their lungs, I've had a good time playing it and getting lost in the massive school looking for my next class where older students got first say in what spell we learned that time. The people who play teachers actually try to give lessons pertaining to the class, overall a random, but fun experience.
Bloodyidit I rarely play games, I like to play the odd game and don’t like mobile games 99% of the time. But I do love Harry Potter and was stoked to hear there was a game.
This is pretty messed up tbh. Could you imagine a kid playing this game and seeing their character getting strangled only to feel helpless, probably panic, and ask their parents for money? Christ, pay to win is always egregious, but for a kid especially, this is mercilessly predatory.
I was a really dumb kid and I wouldn't have freaked out over an in game avatar. Like the kid would have to be so sheltered that would never have watched tv, been on the internet, seen a movie, or played any other game ever, AND had a mental disability to be truly disturbed by this game. Kids really aren't that dumb. And once again I was a really, really dumb kid.
It's also kind of worth noting that the imagery of your avatar (which likely looks a lot like yourself or yourself as a child) being strangled is quite discomforting/disturbing and an image that one would want to get rid of as soon as possible and the only way to do this is pay up. In short, it seems to me that this imagery is quite exploitative, especially when the game is designed to stop you right at that point.
Novarcharesk I didn't mean to imply a full emotional breakdown, I just meant that the image seems manipulative. Like, "if you don't pay us money for energy, your child avatar will be strangled." While I certainly didn't breakdown at that image when I played, it did make me uncomfortable. If I was someone who was more vulnerable to that sort of manipulation or more sensitive to that imagery, perhaps I would have paid for energy
The game,well for me makes me feel like excited,oh i cant wait to beat the devils snare! It kept me occupied while i was waiting because i daydream on what will happen next. Maybe you guys just dont give this game a chance. Just Sayin.
"Major Corporation Strangles Children Unless You Pay Them Money" sounds like a dystopian joke or meme, but that's where the games industry is at right now.
You know... I'm going to install this and reveiw it one star complaining about the energy system without even playing but I have enough experience with EA to rant about this
E3H0 literally played it. Its all shit. The energy system. You choose your house. And the classes you take is shit. Snape will take 50points from you even if you did nothing. Its difficult to get 1st without paying
That's kind of a fraudulent review. Experience it yourself, and if it IS any good, to an extent better than the 1 star kind of good, then you may rate it higher.
That is terrible, it kills me to think of a child seeing this, see their character being strangled to near death unless money is paid. Even not being interested in the series or this game, I would hurt inside to see my little 4yr old brother run up to mom and dad crying that his character is dying and begging for money that they just can't pay up at any given time. This is terrible.
Paladin Boyd They managed to make a port of Lego Harry Potter y1-4 and 5-7 for iOS, years ago when smartphones weren't even that powerful. Edit: Apparently it was also available for Android.
Microtransactions (a brief history): Paying money for cosmetics. Paying money for better weapons. Paying money to skip timers through secondary currency. Buying lootboxes for the chance of getting cosmetics. Buying lootboxes for the chance of better weapons. Buying lootboxes for the chance of getting secondary currency to skip time. >here The game will literally strangle a child until you pay money.
Not only that but if you look at the game reviews on the app store, it is about 100% bot reviews. Every single review posed on April 24, BEFORE THE GAME WAS EVEN LAUNCHED, and every single review is 5*. Talk about predatory practices at its finest.
I was one of the beta testers for the game and I ended up leaving a comment prior to the official release. So, not all reviews from before the official release are bots.
Yong, dont forget they also ask you if youre enjoying yourself and to rate the game literally just before you get to this stupid event. Its like they knew wed be pissed off about this bs so they tried to play nice before showing their teeth. Thats some next level money grabbing
I think you're forgetting the best part of this: The Devil's Snare only lets go of you if you "stop" struggling in the movie/book. You're not supposed to struggle against it, because that makes it grab you tighter. They changed to lore just to strangle money out of you.
Combine this with Star Trek Trexels for a pilelated Hogwarts simulator with premium rooms, micro and macrotransactions, paywalls, exorbitant in game costs, timers that have timers, effing spacepirates that steal your dilithium crystals, 99,99$ premium packs (20%off limited offer buy now) and built in-app permission to record and access conversations, messages, locations, take pictures and films all without user's knowledge. It would be the perfect free-to-play game
I am subbed to both Jim and Yong, and sometimes it feels like Yong pulls a quite lot from Jim tbh. Maybe they have similiar sources, maybe Yong simply decides to cover important topics and have different style/audience etc., but "Oh, new Yong video that I wont watch because I've just watched Jims video on the subject" happens quite often to me. It could happen by proxy etc. (Jim -> Reddit -> Yong etc.), or could be simply cover of Reddit's discovery, but it makes you think how media attention work.
You want to know something infuriating? I bought the original angry birds and angry birds 2 for full price when they first came out, and awhile back they suddenly “updated” to free to play with ads even for people like me who had paid money for them. I deleted the apps and never looked back, which was a shame since I really liked them.
gircakes I just realized how much the “full/lite version” business model has died a quiet death at the hands of in-app purchases and microtransactions. The early iOS App Store was built entirely on that structure.
EDIT: That's like... the perfect metaphor.
Show your support on Patreon.com/YongYea or PayPal.me/YongYea! It's completely optional, but even $1 a month contribution will go a long way. Also, follow me on twitter.com/YongYea for the latest updates.
TOP PATRONS
- Thelionsam (Cipher)
- Shawn Duane Cottrell (Cipher)
- Willie Houston (Big Boss)
- KMille (Boss)
- Michael Redmond (Boss)
- Alex Moretti (Boss)
- Jonathan Ball (Boss)
- ComfyHat (Boss)
- J Black (Boss)
- Steve Colby (Boss)
- Justconst (Boss)
- Brenton Brown (Boss)
- Jamie Alder (Boss)
- Christopher Horkey (Boss)
- Hiroshi Miyagusuku (Boss)
- Andrew Hendricks (Boss)
- John A Perez (Boss)
- Pawel Dziemian (Legendary)
- Jonah Ferguson (Legendary)
- Darius Harvey (Legendary)
- Jake Betts (Legendary)
- Princess Stabbity (Legendary)
- Teemu Hattukangas (Legendary)
- JMorro (Legendary)
- Darien Cunningham (Legendary)
- Matthew Riggs (Legendary)
- PrismatDragoon (Legendary)
- Jade Rose (Legendary)
- D Kurtti (Legendary)
- Christopher Davis Kildahl (Legendary)
YongYea I so knew this was coming down I play the game I downloaded it to my phone and I played for no more than 45 minutes before they were starting to ask you for money and they didn't even allow you to complete the mission that's why I am mediately got rid of it on my phone and I wrote a message on the bulletin board saying stay away from this game unless you want to spend copious amounts of money to play it. Cuz what I'm talking about is that your character ended up being strangled by these weeds and you need to perform the light wand to remove these Vines and you couldn't remove these Vines until you paid $0.99 are $5 or whatever amount to have the amount of money in order to free yourself and soon as I saw that that's when I got rid of the game. And especially Harry Potter where a lot of kids will be playing this game.
10/10 Best visualization of corporate greed since Shadow of War's hand-wringing shopkeep.
You've gon full SJW now yong....
YongYea I do definitely agree I mean the other games that I've played are not any better but at least they allow you to complete the mission before they start nickeling and diming you but this Harry Potter game was great in the midst of a campaign that they wanted to charge you money just to complete the mission. And they're using the Harry Potter brand to basically a dipped kids to pay money to be able to complete missions art even play the game.
You forgot to mention that each mission is on a timer, so if you don't finish the mission before the timer runs out, it resets, so then you have to start the entire mission over. For example, the one you feature here has an 8 hour timer, so if you don't play again for 8 hours, you have to redo it, and reuse the energy again, putting you right back into the stranglehold of the buy-to-continue circle of hate.
For just 3 easy payments of $19.95, you too could be a wizard, Harry.
Digital Unity *Harry Potter theme and credits here*
But I'm just Harry.
I'm dead
The sad part is that $60 wouldn't even get you halfway through your first year..
Digital Unity more like a million
Hermione: "It's Devil's Snare. You have to pay gems! If you don't, it'll only kill you faster."
Aaah, what a classic moment from the Philosopher's Stone!
I love those scenes of Harry running around asking Dumbledore to borrow his credit card so he could afford to smile. That was a great arc in Prisoner of Azkaban.
Marc Shanahan No wonder Ron was nervous cause he didn't have gems lol
! BigBossSnakeCorn ! Holy shit it’s why the slug spell backfired, didn’t pay the mafias.
Lmao this is an EXCELLENT thread. I’m screenshotting it.
Takes a break
-5 energy
Breathes
-15 energy
Daydreams
-90 energy
Exists
-1000000000000 energy
ToastedCakes :D loool
MatixPolska If you buy 30 energy you can go over the limit and when I played I suddendly could get 25 max energy instead of 24.
MatixPolska That's true. Sadly..
Lol
That's too realistic... I play games to escape reality, not re-live it
*Attempts to uninstall the game.* "Out of energy."
Amber *you cannot escape*
I'll just use ES File Explorer then…
*Please wait 45 minutes for 1 energy*
@@vitotheo 2 hours*
@Amber even I wanted to write that
Harry potter and the energy crisis
🤣🤣🤣
Yote
🏆
So this is the name of the sequel to "The Cursed Child".
😭😭
Free to play, then pay to free.
Fan William this needs to be pinned
Take a damn like from me😂😂
Niceeeee
Oooo.. Nice one there.
Still free to play. Guessing you idiots never played mobile games like this. Quite a lot of games have an energy system for your actions. You're just s bunch of whiney bitches.
Not to mention that fact that relaxing and doing nothing is how you actually escape the devil's snare.
Zambletons true Harry Potter fan right here
My gosh Tiffany you're such a fucking nerd.
Zambletons Actually, you need fire or some kind of light for them to release you. Though the more you struggle the harder they will hold on to you, that's why you need to relax.
Jenny Li hermione and Harry get out without using light, hermione is forced to use light to rescue ron when he refuses to stop struggling
James Siggss, someone's watched the movies.
You forgot the fact that you have a maximum amount of time where you have to spend the energy. If you take too long the event fails and you have to start again.
My girlfriend played it and could literally not overcome some events because she had to work and could obviously not log into the game every 30 minutes or so to spend the energy before it capped. Leading to an impassable wall at some point without real money transactions.
This. Once I reached once of these, i stopped playing the game altogether.
I wondered what that timer was at the top.
That's disguisting!
This absolutely proves without a doubt that this isn't a game, but simply a themed money making scam.
I can only hope that some law is passed to punish devs that create these type of rip offs.
I'm so sorry that this has happened to her....and indeed to anyone!
@Ryan Yarnevich So you prefer to stay like this or even worse? Ok whale
kharmachaos667 yes same reason I stopped playing. Few days ago I accidentally It again. After much reluctance, I played it. Well they have made it better than before. But there still 3 hour waiting time to unlock next missions.
worst part is, if you're not careful with your tapping, the moment you're out of energy mid-action, you will hit the "spend gems" button immediatly, which have NO confirmation screen, so you either tap slow and careful or spend gems accidentaly. That can NOT be accidental.
BREAKING NEWS...
This is by design of course. Dont think it just coincidentally pops up right where you would normally tap
Shame on them
Learn to control your tapping urges.:D
you have your bank card registred without a pin/fingerprint block before making a transaction.
The dumest thing ever heard.
and the fun thing... the devil's snare is supposed to let you go if you stay still...
。Spirit・狼 but you need energy to stay still
Which means you have to relax...
and you need fucking energy to *relax*
Pretty sure that was only the movie fire is how they defeat it in the book
I have to honestly confess I never read the books so I wouldn't know.
but the game is evidently based off of the movie. :P
and you need energy to watch the movie.
。Spirit・狼 and if light attracts the devilsnare, why was he constantly casting Lumos?
This is not a game.
Sideswipe like it’s not worthy to be a game or do you think it’s not a game and this is made up? Cause it’s definitely a game bro
Modvenger Mott
He meant this as if games shouldn't be extremely pay to win *(pay with your real money to win the game)*
all you do is tap
all you do in any game is press buttons....
OsamaBinObama
Whose side are you on? Do you guys seriously support this?
We should start calling the unethical use of microtransactions “the devil’s snare.”
Yep, this is canon now.
I am on board with the idea. It is appropriate enough to one day be a trope namer.
These greedy corporate parasites who influence developers to put predatory MTX in their games, coincidentally also hate sunlight exposing their shady and unethical business practices, just like devils snare.
You know what's funny? You escape the Devil's Snare by not moving, and yet the game forces you to struggle in order to save yourself. It's not only a shitty practice, but also artificially inserted in a lore-breaking scenario.
Keep in mind that I never played this and don't intend to, so if there is an actual logic reason behind that, please, tell someone that cares because I sure as hell don't. It's shitty either way.
Lab Matt *insert edgy insult towards bronies here"
Lab Matt It’s a subspecies (Banker’s Snare). You have to bribe it to leave you alone.
In the book, it was light that freed you. The movie changed it.
No, you're just expending energy to relax so you escape the Devil's Snare.
Taking a break requires energy. Literally what you use to regain energy costs energy. Does your character have diabetes or something?
He’s trying ok?
He has Type 3 Die-abetes.
Caused by being born in a shitty freemium games.
Whoops. You need 999 energy to breakdown one grain of sugar.
I have type 1 diabetes and don't get the joke
666 likes!
Videogames before: "Press A to save the kid"
Videogames now: "Pay or the kid dies"
KaiserOfSteaks *Bad Videogames Now. Remember not all games are predatorial money-grabbing schemes, only EA does this so shamelessly
But this Harry Potter game isn't from EA. There are other predatory developers out there.
Videogames then after beating the game: You unlocked a secret door!
Videogames now after beating the game: I finally bought the DLC to unlock that secret door!
Seriously, it sucks and A LOT of games now do this. Soon Pokémon will do this. Too bad TLoZ is doing this bs now.
﴾-'*The Hero Of The Twilight, Rachel*'-﴿ isnt zelda just doing optional dlc?
ShinySpiritomb 33, yes, but it should be something EARNED in the game. Instead of making people pay money just to get a little more of the story included into the game.
I wasted 100 energy laughing at this, now i'm all out, and I can't continue.
That will be $2.50
You mean 24 energies then spent gems to continue laughing until you were out 🤔
Fool
@@garrenstevison9005 r/wooooosh
@@shoutotodoroki5012 r/fool
Looks like you've ran out of energy! Energy recharges every 4 minutes. Wait for your energy to be recharged or buy now!
I did my waiting! 12 years! In Azkaban!
Haha
Why so SERIOUS
nightowl 12 years of it*
I've watched the movies too much
Zeleros71324 It really doesn't matter though.
Sora it does to me
Video Games: Press A to struggle out of the monster's grasp
Mobile Games: Pay (insert insane amount of money, here) to struggle out of the monster's grasp
Pay 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000$
If it was generous then it would be Tap 1M times or pay
Dude that is a great analogy.
That One Guy Afaic EA doesn't make videogames anymore. They are dead to me.
Yeah, typical Glu games
"You're broke, Harry"
"I'm wot"
@@thefoxoftimeandspace794 "broke"
"But I'm just harry!"
@@theappleeaters6844 "Well then Just Harry your broke"
You're a lizard devs
Holy shit this should be illegal.
JK193765 The Cursed Child should be illegal.
it's worse. it's for kids
yeah the mobile industry did this for years and yet only now people are realizing this should be illegal
I love your current Profile photo.
@@hanatoro6399 the people who do this dont even earn much money. they release a bad produkt and you dont like it, thats ok, but saying either be successful or go to jail is stupid. some people go hot for pay2win games. you are like those people who believes gore movies are bad and should be forbidden. you are literally arguing against freedom.
**breathes**
_-8 energy_
**Walks**
-10 energy
*Exists*
-24 energy
*farts*
-12 energy
*-1 energy*
_-10 energy_
*Out of energy*
[chokes to death]
Now what?
whoops I ran out of energy cause I looked at somebody
Yes of course, that is indeed quite a exercise
eugh thats how i got all this muscle
nan . . . Hahha
eugh they must have been breathtaking
Whoops i ran out of Energy by sleeping
This is something you would see out of a parody or something, not an actual game. Holy shit, to think that I used to buy things like this when o was younger.
Kellen Bluestein
thank God I was poor and buyed cheap pirated games instead
whom is this, "o"?
When o was younger
Thank you, I laughed.
Thank god cellphones barely had colour screens when i was young.
Kellen Bluestein It’s a game now
I thought the way to beat devil's snare was to NOT struggle? Did the makers of this game watch the movie?
Sailor Sedna damn Harry Potter encyclopedia
Kiflaam that's was I was thinking when I played the game
@Sailor Sedna knowing myself I would relax to the point of farting
No, of course they didn't, they were to busy thinking of how to add a the most microtransactions possible!
Not struggle
-5 energy
“Spend energy to imagine”
Wtf.
"I see you are spending energy to gain more energy, buy energy to gain more energy."
"Spend energy to sleep and regain all of your energy"
"Spend energy to open app"
"Spend energy to breathe"
Knight Boulegard To TAKE A BREAK lmao energy to take a fcking break
Oh Boy! I’m Gonna Have A Good Night Sleep!
**You Need More Energy To Sleep!**
The Great Papyrus Wait 20 minutes to sleep, or buy the ability to sleep for 55 gems now!
Unnamed dammit, my eWallet is emptied from my previous purchase to keep my character from being strangled.
Pay 19.99 for the "basic functions of a human being" dlc to continue breathing
Have fun waiting!
*you need more energy to wait pay 99.99 dollars or pay 999.99 coins to wait!*
Your profile picture fits it perfectly
This is actually even worse than Battlefront 2. Strangling your neck for more money.
Zerodrag Literally...
Zerodrag or even smiling,
You literally listened too hard that you've ranout of energy to effing smile
At least this game is honest and transparent about its narcisism.
Choke me harder, I'm still not buying🤔
EA ruined Starwars
WB ruined Harry potter
Konami ruined MGS
Ubisoft ruined (or rather milked) Assassins Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon
Microtansactions will be out the door if this keeps up. I'm going to guess the next one on the list to mess with a franchise is a gaming company with an insatiable avarice
Harry Potter and the mysterious tentacles in Hermione's room
Harry Potter and the wand under the bed
Harry Potter and Ron's secret stash
Harry Potter and Snape's sticky cauldron
I spit out my drink, thanks.
Inb4 Shadman makes a picture from the fucking thumbnail
"... takes your child character and violates and strangles them"
*Shadbase begins to sweat*
mmmmmmmmmmmmm.....tbh I don't mind this...hentai makes serious things better...sometimes...
He he
Hawkman true dat
Hawkman How long do you have to wait for a piece of art to come to age?
Hawkman pictures of fiction characters which not exist in real life - not pedo.
Also it's not an RPG. It's barely a game. You just click on things, and wait timers. This is not an RPG. Would it be so hard to release a proper Harry Potter RPG starring our own character for the PC/consoles? Probably not, but then they can't put this energy shit into it.
It's more like a visual novel.
I didn't have all this issue y'all are talking about because I've only ever played mobile games and I'm used to this kind of waiting. If they didn't put a timer on it, just imagine how many people would throw it aside after completion. They should probably just put up a paid version with unlimited energy instead of the scam free-to-play. That way they still earn the money and avoid any sort of backlash.
+Sora Jack Yeah
Remember all the time spent waiting in games like Temple Rush, Doodle Jump, Jetpack Joyride, etc.?
OH WAIT
If i remembered it correctly there’s a game years before this similar to what you’re looking for. Visual novel, dueling, potion making, wand-flicking, it has it all. PlayStation did a pretty good job on it.
Sora Jack
I think that is the core of the problem.
Many people playing on their phones don't know anything but the "clash of clans" - "farmville" - kind of game.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Microtransactions
Hahahahahaha
Plagiarism of RESTART russian channel!
It has 4,4 stars on the appstore. The reviews all say "Why are you all complaining about this being a "cashgrab" game? You just have to wait a little. Don't be so impatient."...
The F.B.I. Omg ikr
You have to wait an hour to complete a lesson which otherwise should take 2 minutes
The F.B.I. Yeah, this game is so far the worst game I have ever fucking played. Unbelievable.
So true 😂
they are all game devs with alts.
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Donations
Og01Letsplay [RR] more like DON'Tations!
More like Harry Potter: Pay to Play
harry potter and the chamber of scams
Harry potter and the chamber or microtransactions
TK Prime harry potter and the lootbox of secrets
Holy shit, I miss when games where about creating an unique experience. About the power of interactive art. Im sorry but most publishers and corporations ruin games and art.
Woken One Games are still about art, you're just looking in the wrong places. Games released under larger publishers generally lack soul because the design process is industrialized, but there are large numbers of smaller developers that are dedicated to creating immersive, interactive experiences. The biggest shackles that hold the industry back are publishers that exploit both the developers and consumers for profit. Even people who work for the most insidious of companies like EA want to make a good game that people enjoy.
Archagent Everlasting
From the release of the NES until the start of the PS3, 360, Wii era.
JackOfen yes I'm sure all those games from the Ness era makes any game in this generation crap, I just can't believe I never knew that all this time every game I've played has been nothing but a cash grab, and that no developers make actual games
boomboy b
Trying to be sarcastic? Look, I just named the golden age of gaming. That doesn't mean that all games today are corporate, soulless cashgrabs. But the PS3, 360, Wii era was the start of microtransactions, dlcs, unfinished games being released, content that was on the disc but was locked and much MUCH more corporate meddling. Of course you have no idea of the difference, because you never lived it. To you it has become the normal state because thats how you grew up with it and thats terrifying how companies can get away with shit like that
Oh and btw, there are TONS of NES, SNES, Mega Drive, PS1, PS2, N64 and Gamecube games that are FAR superior in gameplay and originality then what is called AAA today.
Archagent Everlasting how much shovelware is actually popular? Not so much so.
It's more about how beloved franchises are turned into cash generators
Alright, let's do this...
1. Harry Pother and the Philosophers Scam
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Micro-transactions
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Electronic Arts
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Pride and Accomplishment
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Season Pass
6. Harry Potter and the Purely Cosmetic Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Downloadable Content
Feel free to add your own to the mix.
TheShadowCookie lol man you cracked me up
Noice
Fucking great mate made me laugh.
How can I, a mere man, add to this art
Harry Potter and the Microtransactions of Azkaban.
The act of strangling the character couldn't be more adequate about getting money out of the player.
5:15 Spend energy to imagine. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!? DID THE DEVELOPERS BASE THIS ON THEMSELVES?! GOOD GOD!
Blay Blay The Nugget Well sometimes it does actually take you "energy" to imagine. I just can't understand why you would need energy to relax...
What can we do? The developers are nothing but a bunch of greedy imbeciles
Well in reality we spend aproximetaly 60% of energy with thinking. But there are worse examples in this game like take a break in this game as he mentioned.
Luka Papež Well then it should take 14.4/24 energy
This is more an owner driven concept than developer driven
*Breathes air*
You're out of energy.
W-what? *chokes to death*
You need energy to even speak
You need energy to get energy
Harry Potter and the Overdraft Bank Charges
need this film
😂😂😂
Starring bank trolls!
I'll never understand phone game people
finally book 9 and 10
5:15 wait it takes energy to imagine
WTF LMAO
It also takes energy to rest
Lmao
What a nice child avatar you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it.
Someone give this man more likes!!!
I love references like these.
Don't let Shadman hear about this.
A brazzers logo keeps popping up...
Fitzgerald Krox Welcome to the FBI watch list. May I take your hat sir?
*gets an ad for Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery on this video*
Wow
Shitty Professor McGonagall voice actor- "We will be awaiting your arrival"
Fuck me, I got it too. Damn EA, you're cold
Nice
I’m sure I saw this on Pornhub. “Hot Hogwarts Boy Gets Strangled by Tentacles for Money”
Wild Tiger
😂 Which one? (This is really weird but I decided to join in because it seemed like a good idea when I first started writing this comment.)
This comment is hilarious!! 😂😂
Lmao
Wild Tiger Oh God no pls
Ngl thought this was me from the pic and was really confused
Let me get this straight..the entire game is based on whatever you do requires energy? If that were the case, Harry Potter must’ve been loaded with gems.
He was loaded with gold galleons in the films . . .
Youseph Karouni In the books too
Taking a glance literally costs 12 energy...along with flipping pages, talking, etc.
And breathing f****g airs
This can't even be classified as an idle game. Idle games actually have progression which you can look at. This is just waiting to wait more, with nothing in between.
ThoesAssasinBasterds Hey there fellow Paragon
Kokichi Ouma ultimate supreme leader
Three Kokichi on the same Comment section....
AWESOME !!
LOL, this isn't a game. This is a scam.
The fight between KSI and Logan Paul was a scam
"Uh... Mr. Devil's Snare? Could you slack your vines a bit? I need to wait for a few hours to recharge my energy before I can keep fighting back."
1 Day Later...
Wow, that's a lot of likes..
"Sure no worries man." - Mr. Devil's Snare
Me with Devil’s Snare
If you knew the lore... Relaxing is how you DON'T get strangled by Devil's Snare.
I remember playing this game on my phone I got tired of the energy shit so I got a modded version with unlimited energy and gems.
Gaben
Is the game even fun though? What is the purpose of playing a mobile Harry Potter game?
@@callmeviper7723 it's meh
@@lowercase_g341 shhhh, we don't talk about that.
@@halo48189 Damn You Gaben!!!
@@halo48189 where's L4D3 gaben?
Don't forget there's a timer for the full activity as well. If you don't perform the activity in full it resets, so you get halfway but because you need to wait for energy you forget about the game, the next day you're back at the start of the activity and you have to do it all over again.
Holy shit that's so fucking stupid
Adriaan Sluijs I'd just uninstall the "game" and be done with it. But that's me though.
"But that's me though."
*BUT THAT'S EVERYBODY THOUGH.*
Adriaan Sluijs YES. This is one of the main reasons I just stopped playing.
Adriaan Sluijs you are fully capable of finishing anything within the time limit given you don’t start with 0 energy,
It's a metaphor for EA and it's customers.
Dr . Wub Yikes...
The scary thing? Even EA put out better Harry Potter games than this.
Dr . Wub except its warner brothers and they are equally as scummy, as seen here
*its
or rather, *their
its*
This game is literally unplayable. You can only play for 1 min at a time at most before waiting 1+ hours for your Energy to recover. And the clothing items are ridiculously expensive.
I mean, I like this game and all. But god it is annoying that I can't buy new hair styles and clothes and shit.
미셜비 The clothes are also ridiculously ugly
Why I hate mobile gaming
@Nugget games are still games
Wow! I just flipped a page of my book..... I am SO EXHAUSTED!!
Hannah Johnson lmao
Wow.... I just wasted half my energy typing this comment!
I spent all my energy reading your comment.
Welp... I'm gonna be here a while. I have to let my energy recharge so I can exit RUclips. Shit, I just used all my energy again!!!
I already used up all my energy to reply this comment, now i have to pay $99.99 to recharge my energy!
Even a slot machine has more gameplay.
literally.
F$@king slot machines have more gamplay hell staring at a brick wall or watching a beautifull green valley has more gamplay
This isn't just bullshit business practice. It's also Lore-breaking. The way you get out of Devil's Snare is by doing nothing! It should be Zero energy!
Sarvis The Buck in the game you use lumos to make it let go of you. Which is accurate
I mean technically you can either do nothing or use lumos to make it let go of you... of course they went with the option that would make people cough up money
Ava Plante but you don’t have to spend any money to use lumos. Just wait until you have more energy. There’s literally no reason to spend money unless you’re so impatient that everything has to be done THAT SECOND
Max Lastra wait what? If this was any other fame How would you like it if you were in the middle of a boss fight and bam you run out of energy to keep playing and the game stops you fom playing for a few minutes like DF. The issue here is they STOP YOU from playing the game unless you pay.
Wakil Ahmed but it’s not stopping you from playing the game. That’s just the game format and mechanism. It’s not like this is an actual video game that’s making you wait, it’s an app. You wait or you pay but no one is making you pay so it’s not that big of a deal. All you have to do is not be an impatient child with the memory span of a goldfish
45 energy to buy 20 energy
Stonks
When I heard this game, I expected nothing, and I'm still dissapointed.
I'd rather pay $30-60 one time for a game that is decent than play a "free" game for hours and get nothing from it
who wouldn't?
I agree, but a lot of the games you pay to play have DLC and microtransactions creeping in. What's worse than a cash grabby free game? A cash grabby game that you paid full price for.
+random stuff not the games I play that are $30-$60
(more specifically factorio and other indie games)
Get god of war
sophie m That's been my experience as well. I used to play F2P, but lately I've been dumping out my mobile's library in favor of paid games, 'cause eff this BS.
Ah yes, the classic energy, coins, and gems of the Harry Potter franchise.
"The Patronus Charm is a very advanced spell, Harry. It costs 20 energy."
eugh Yeesh, guess I’ll have to buy the membership value spell pack.
And the Time Turner only costs a measly payment of $2.99 a minute!
Wingardium Leviosa is a very simple spell. All you've got to remember is, "swish and enter-your-mum's-credit-card-details".
cheat engine bois be like
yeet
Unspeci Right lmao
Server sided coins be like
Yeet
SmilingMoos3 Lucky Patcher be like
YEET!
@@sheriffaboubakar9720 Nah m8 its *YEET*
Wow. That screenshot of the player character being strangled while the game is asking you to pay money to continue is the perfect analogy to what's going on in the game indistry right now.
They literally made a visual representation of the analogy we've all been saying for years
It’s almost like they did it intentionally
I laughed at the "take a break" that COSTS energy.
GalloViking taking a dump costs energy
Speedysparrow55 well I mean yeah you gotta push that poop out :D
Please! You know that kind of sh*t doesn't exist in video games XD
GalloViking was that a pun?
Totally.
The irony that Warner brother Games are now on Origin. Maybe this was one of the requirements for WB to be EA-worthy and get approved for Origin.
You do know that WB were the ones that put out Middle Earth Shadow of War, right? The game that basically fucked over its predecessor's signature mechanic, the nemesis system where orcs would remember past encounters with the player, to have a sleazy orc merchant sell them to the player as loot crates.
I hope WB feels good that Roger, the youthful Gryffindor pleb was murdered slowly by asphyxiation because of them. RIP Roger, I’ll always remember him as he was born on my iPad and the precious 30 minutes I spent with him.
Games4Kickz This wouldn't be unsurprising. EA did publish the non-Lego Harry Potter games.
@DetectiveBarricade The lootcrates barely gave you an advantage (you can make better orcs just by grinding), weapon drops are crap, and it doesn't make the end grind any faster (the end grind is boring anyway.)
Besides they removed them once they learned no one was buying their gold, as you made enough of the earned currency to buy the crates without having to pay a cent. Monolith removed the crates, and not WB by the way.
Chuck Nv RIP Rodger. F.
You know, when I saw this game I was really excited, I thought I would be able to choose my path and feel like a true Hogwarts student. Screw that, said Warner Brothers and they made you watch your own character getting asphixiated because you dont have enough freaking energy to do anything. Well the thing is, every single action you do costs energy which you only have 24 of at the start of the game which is a ridiculously low amount knowing that the game makes you spend energy in things like TAKING A BREAK. I really thought game companies had learned about the topic of making gamers spend money after the disaster that was Star Wars Battlefront 2 but no, it looks as if they keep on doing the same scummy things they did before. Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery will in my opinion go down as one of THE WORST if not the single worst mobile game in the history of games and I know some people will say that almost every mobile game is like that and that is true but the thing is that when you mess with a franchise as big as Harry Potter or Star Wars or anything with enourmous fanbases as is with those two, doing something like that can really maje the franchise look bad and make the fans unhappy so WB I hope you learn about this mistake and make your next game much better than this piece of crap.
a game that cost money is better than a game that forces micro transactions
Agreed
Legomonster33 because? I can install a game without buying for Internet and i can download a hack for the game with Infinite energy
Legomonster33 true
Until that game that costs money also decides to force micro-transactions
I mean sure if you want viruses.
Imagine playing a game where you can only die 3 times, then you have to pay a microtransaction before you lose ALL your progress. To make matters seem more urgent, it literally gives you a 10 second countdown timer to pay.
Like an arcade cabinet.
looksintolasers STOP, greedy game developers might read your comment
Don't give konami any ideas.
USS Prinz Eugen Congratulations you got the joke
At least it had gameplay
It takes 3 energy to nudge someone. NUDGE. SOMEONE.
Wink wink nudge (sorry you need more energy to nudge)
Would you like to breathe?
Breathe: 71727 energy
Suffocate: free :3
5:16 You need energy to imagine bruh!
Caleb Henning aww damn at least you have energy to sleep, right?
Ikr you even need energy to rest in some scenarios 😂😂😂
That's why I'm so bad at school
xD
And to discuss sunlight (i.e. be told not to look into the sun)
Honestly these things don't need to be referred to as games anymore, it gives them too much credit. I think you should just refer to these type of things as "schemes", a word which adequately captures the dishonesty and unethical nature of these type of products.
Really? People had hopes for a mobile game? :D How delusional can people be^^
Monsieur Jeaques Mobile scheme. Revealing a con job for what it is doesn't mean anybody had faith it. It's good for the community to warn each other about con artists like the people that developed this scheme.
manrightchea absolutely agree, especially when franchises for kids are involved. Just thought it was funny that people didnt expect this to happen.^^
That's not what scheme means. You may say it's an instance of a money making scheme.
Taxtro Taxtro Taxtro scheme
skēm/Submit
noun
1.
a large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular object or putting a particular idea into effect.
"a clever marketing scheme"
synonyms: plan, project, plan of action, program, strategy, stratagem, tactic, game plan, course/line of action; More
2.
SCOTTISHinformal
a public housing complex.
"the whole scheme is plunged into darkness, bar the light in Victor's house"
verb
1.
make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong.
"he schemed to bring about the collapse of the government"
Google the word "scheme". Each English definition matches my usage.
These kind of predatory micro-transaction games should be made illegal.
Lord Proteus dungeon keeper almost sparced controversy
It's your choice whether or not to pay. Just like it's your choice whether or not to buy pizza over spaghetti or that shirt you saw on clarence. It's not illegal for a business to try and make money, heck, that's ultimately their goal, so stop placing the unnecessary blame on them.
Eve Kopsolias that doesn’t mean they get to squeeze money from people if they want to make money they can sell the game on the App Store
There are people making moves towards that goal. Its being argued weather or not micro transactions can be considered underage gambling
@John Roche
I think that was specifically about random loot box style micro-transactions John Roche. Being told to spend money to progress the game is not gambling in any way. I consider this particular Harry Potter game a form of "coercion" micro-transaction, however.
It took a while for things like Cigarettes to be properly regulated, and micro-transaction based freemium games are relatively new. Eventually I believe they will be brought under control before they do too much damage.
Eve Kopsolias is either a shill or a contrarian.
@Purple Team Pyrostrike
>Dungeon Keeper
What should have been illegal is how EA bribed people into giving it a 5 star review. They wern't even trying to hide it, literally said out in the open for everyone to see that you'd get free in-game currency if you gave it a 5-star review. THAT should have been absolutely illegal.
"Do you want to quit this game? You need 20 Energy to click YES"
This sure is a new low how can this be legal? Is it legal?
ImAnderZEL probably not
Its legal if there are no laws written about it. And given that most of the people who write laws think a "Galaxy S6" is four light years west of Canis Major, I don't think we can hope for much.
Any transaction is legal as long as all parties involved agree and neither party is led to believe they're getting something that they're not.
I cannot explain to you, however, why there are people who spend money on this. That is why these games exist, because someone somewhere is paying up and making up for the development costs and more. I believe that's a fact that cannot be changed. Just ignore these types of games and move on. It doesn't really have to concern you what some people do with their money, after all, although I suppose you could say it's swaying the gaming industry in a bad direction.
ImAnderZEL Capitalizing on impatience isn't illegal, or else your local quick stop 24/7 gas station wouldn't be charging $3.00 for the same Cola the grocery store charges $1 for. It's a new "convenience fee"
They can't do that! Shoot him or something
I don’t mind the game, and at first I was stoked when I saw it but then I started playing it and I instantly got irritated at the fact I had to wait forever or fork over cash, it made me even more pissed when I’d come back from waiting only to find out I waited too long and I had to start over. I do actually enjoy the storyline but I just wish they would make a Harry Potter rpg where you could have your own character and make your own choices and relationships for ps4 and other consoles instead of a crappy money hungry mobile game... really disappointing as a Harry Potter fan and if JK Rowling knows about this then that makes me even more disappointed.
a Harry Potter rpg for consoles/pc would be so hype
Annie rowling doesnt give a shit about harry potter, she only cares about getting money from it
you're talking like an addict. As soon as something shakes you out of it, like say the death of a loved one in my case when I was addicted to one, and you can't bring yourself to play a grinder of a "game" and you stop playing, you won't want to play it again. It's not fun, it's a time killer that doesn't do anything for you, it's just there to hook you via brand loyalty. None of these games are fun.
Got GMod? Hogwarts RP. Nah, but really, while the presence of other people can break your immersion and suddenly chaos ensues in the Great Hall when every person is gathered and screaming at the top of their lungs, I've had a good time playing it and getting lost in the massive school looking for my next class where older students got first say in what spell we learned that time. The people who play teachers actually try to give lessons pertaining to the class, overall a random, but fun experience.
Bloodyidit I rarely play games, I like to play the odd game and don’t like mobile games 99% of the time. But I do love Harry Potter and was stoked to hear there was a game.
"Harry Potter Themed Casino Rapes Your Child And Makes You Watch Unless You Pay Them"
I can see the headlines now...
Casino?
Rather than casino, this one is more like psychological extortion.
Harry potter and the tentacle hentai
Casino implies you can win. There's no winning with this type of shit.
Dogman_35 The entire fucking casino is rigged, then. No win there.
After seeing this video
"Boy i cant wait for diablo immortal"
This is pretty messed up tbh. Could you imagine a kid playing this game and seeing their character getting strangled only to feel helpless, probably panic, and ask their parents for money? Christ, pay to win is always egregious, but for a kid especially, this is mercilessly predatory.
Captain Casual I find thst pertty funny actually. "What the hell are you playing, son?!"
A child panicking over that is probably stupid
I was a really dumb kid and I wouldn't have freaked out over an in game avatar.
Like the kid would have to be so sheltered that would never have watched tv, been on the internet, seen a movie, or played any other game ever, AND had a mental disability to be truly disturbed by this game.
Kids really aren't that dumb. And once again I was a really, really dumb kid.
I completely agree this is redicilous!! What does tbh mean though??
Jake Drake To be honest..
It's also kind of worth noting that the imagery of your avatar (which likely looks a lot like yourself or yourself as a child) being strangled is quite discomforting/disturbing and an image that one would want to get rid of as soon as possible and the only way to do this is pay up. In short, it seems to me that this imagery is quite exploitative, especially when the game is designed to stop you right at that point.
Maybe for a kid, but if an adult is really gonna have an emotional meltdown over this, then damn. Grow up.
Jeremy Clements Its still not that graphic. This is just crying over spilled milk.
Novarcharesk I didn't mean to imply a full emotional breakdown, I just meant that the image seems manipulative. Like, "if you don't pay us money for energy, your child avatar will be strangled." While I certainly didn't breakdown at that image when I played, it did make me uncomfortable. If I was someone who was more vulnerable to that sort of manipulation or more sensitive to that imagery, perhaps I would have paid for energy
The game,well for me makes me feel like excited,oh i cant wait to beat the devils snare! It kept me occupied while i was waiting because i daydream on what will happen next. Maybe you guys just dont give this game a chance. Just Sayin.
The title of this video is so ridiculous I'm surprised it's actually accurate.
"Major Corporation Strangles Children Unless You Pay Them Money" sounds like a dystopian joke or meme, but that's where the games industry is at right now.
This game had one thing that confused me. Lol
Snape Taking points from Slytherin.
That's not how he works.
Free in name only.
Nate Rivers Free To Pay
Hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge...... give us money!
Dimitri Lerner "Free to Play"
Amen
“Free to start”
-Not the Nintendo E-Shop
*blinks* -10 energy
Breathes -10 energy
Santiago monreal perez welcome*
Also he's right.
What?
Catdragon 101 You use energy from brain to do everything.
Steps -10000000 engery
Yeah... I think I’ll just go back to running around in my backyard yelling “AVADA KEDAVRA!”
firework guns are even better, because they shoot sparks of light out.
@@alexceous and they can actually kill people. Win-win!
Have fun and all, but that'll cost you 50 energy per minute.
W8 w8 w8, that is 250 energy
@warystatue33 Expecto Grenado!
This got recommended for me 3+ years later, yet I HAD to click on it because of the headline alone...
You know... I'm going to install this and reveiw it one star complaining about the energy system without even playing but I have enough experience with EA to rant about this
E3H0 literally played it. Its all shit.
The energy system. You choose your house. And the classes you take is shit. Snape will take 50points from you even if you did nothing. Its difficult to get 1st without paying
That's kind of a fraudulent review. Experience it yourself, and if it IS any good, to an extent better than the 1 star kind of good, then you may rate it higher.
Mahmoud ahmad if it has necessary micro transactions it’s automatically a shit game.
It isn't necessary, but it's annoying.
Don’t worry, they couldn’t give two shits
That is terrible, it kills me to think of a child seeing this, see their character being strangled to near death unless money is paid. Even not being interested in the series or this game, I would hurt inside to see my little 4yr old brother run up to mom and dad crying that his character is dying and begging for money that they just can't pay up at any given time. This is terrible.
Why would you give a 4 year old a phone in the first place?
@@nernguan1210 ikr
That One Unicorn no he doesn’t
I'm 100 percent sure that no 4 year old would own and manage a phone. It's either a siblings or parents phone
Your 4 year old shouldn't be using a phone or tablet anyway...
This would actually be the best part of the game for anyone with a tentacle fetish.
Spengbab :^)
Spengbab calm down bro, this is a child.
And energy fetish
No publisher is getting away with monitising my favourite fetish
*HENTAI*
Whoever made mobile games with aggresive monetization "the norm" should be beheaded on a global livestream.
Gotta thank candy crush for that
Well, some hardcore fetishes in Hogwarts may have started from this.
“I t s f o r k I d s”
The only people who'd like this game are those who are in to findom.
I know, right?! Why didn't the vine near his face stick itself into his mouth, that would've been perfect!
Anthony Bias what's wrong with findom?
Bandamani What's wrong with being a Harry Potter game's pay pig?
Can you really call this a game? It’s a barebones joke of an interactive slideshow.
TheWitness, It’s a mobile game what do you expect?
Paladin Boyd let’s be honest - we don’t consider mobile gamers as actual gamers.
TheWitness, True.
You get to duel later on in the game. I'm currently in year 2 half way and I've been playing for a week *shrugs*
Paladin Boyd They managed to make a port of Lego Harry Potter y1-4 and 5-7 for iOS, years ago when smartphones weren't even that powerful.
Edit: Apparently it was also available for Android.
They are actually strangling you to spend money in the game I'm weak 😂😂😂
Too fitting to not be intentional, I swear! Also, nice avatar. FFXV was a damn good game!
Totally lost it at the "defies logic by wasting energy to take a break"
Microtransactions (a brief history):
Paying money for cosmetics.
Paying money for better weapons.
Paying money to skip timers through secondary currency.
Buying lootboxes for the chance of getting cosmetics.
Buying lootboxes for the chance of better weapons.
Buying lootboxes for the chance of getting secondary currency to skip time.
>here The game will literally strangle a child until you pay money.
TheAlmightyLoli
_what an interesting history i bet jesus will disown the warner brothers for not _*_warning_*_ their employees ludicrous greed_
MT should at worst be cosmetics only.
Beyond that its not worth getting the game at all.
Not only that but if you look at the game reviews on the app store, it is about 100% bot reviews. Every single review posed on April 24, BEFORE THE GAME WAS EVEN LAUNCHED, and every single review is 5*. Talk about predatory practices at its finest.
ongon68 ikr I saw that
I was one of the beta testers for the game and I ended up leaving a comment prior to the official release. So, not all reviews from before the official release are bots.
Those aren’t 100% bots some where beta testers but yeah mostly bots
Berry thief So wait... you left a review on a game before it was finished, before it came out in a "complete" state? Hm.
Charge Have you played a Beta game?
Yong, dont forget they also ask you if youre enjoying yourself and to rate the game literally just before you get to this stupid event. Its like they knew wed be pissed off about this bs so they tried to play nice before showing their teeth. Thats some next level money grabbing
I wondered why it had such good reviews on the app store
I think you're forgetting the best part of this: The Devil's Snare only lets go of you if you "stop" struggling in the movie/book. You're not supposed to struggle against it, because that makes it grab you tighter. They changed to lore just to strangle money out of you.
Sorry, you need 25 energy to rate this game 1 star. Better spend 10 gems to get energy, and only use one of it!
rate this game 5 stars and earn 25 energy!
Nealen the Nerd maybe it is
But then again I don’t really care about this game
This is absolutely disgusting even by phone game standards.
PS: Jim Sterling's video on this was hilarious.
Fwazangalang Entertainment whats the title?
Combine this with Star Trek Trexels for a pilelated Hogwarts simulator with premium rooms, micro and macrotransactions, paywalls, exorbitant in game costs, timers that have timers, effing spacepirates that steal your dilithium crystals, 99,99$ premium packs (20%off limited offer buy now) and built in-app permission to record and access conversations, messages, locations, take pictures and films all without user's knowledge.
It would be the perfect free-to-play game
I am subbed to both Jim and Yong, and sometimes it feels like Yong pulls a quite lot from Jim tbh.
Maybe they have similiar sources, maybe Yong simply decides to cover important topics and have different style/audience etc., but "Oh, new Yong video that I wont watch because I've just watched Jims video on the subject" happens quite often to me.
It could happen by proxy etc. (Jim -> Reddit -> Yong etc.), or could be simply cover of Reddit's discovery, but it makes you think how media attention work.
Fwazangalang Entertainment Thank God for him.
Harry Potter And The Crock Of Shit (The Jimquisition)
I miss the old mobile games like Paper Toss and original Angry Birds. No one makes games like them anymore.
You want to know something infuriating? I bought the original angry birds and angry birds 2 for full price when they first came out, and awhile back they suddenly “updated” to free to play with ads even for people like me who had paid money for them. I deleted the apps and never looked back, which was a shame since I really liked them.
Dan D I thought the original was ALWAYS free to play. Never knew you ever had to buy them.
gircakes I remember having the LITE version of Sonic 4 episode 2. It had 2 levels and some phone wallpapers.
gircakes I just realized how much the “full/lite version” business model has died a quiet death at the hands of in-app purchases and microtransactions. The early iOS App Store was built entirely on that structure.
Rei Tachibana ah yes the good old days