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Great idea. I really enjoyed Angry Birds when it first came out and when my children asked about to install it on their devices I said this was fine. I couldn't find the original Angry Birds so installed Angry Birds 2. What an awful convoluted mess it was. Instead of a simple, fun physics-based game it's full of lives, spells, bad level design and in-app purchases.

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I played the original to death "back in the day" so I'm really sad to hear that they went down this route. Probably also explains why nobody talks about Angry Birds anymore.

There was an Angry Birds movie released within the last couple of years. It's still extremely popular.

it was legitimately a good movie. I would've gone to see the sequel despite never having played any of their games.

Maybe the IP. But not the game.

How many other video games from 2009 are people talking about today? It's just the nature of the beast.

counterstrike! ..But it too has now been corrupted by DLC/IAP/etc.

I beg to differ. I am not aware of any DLCs. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is free to play. There are cosmetics like gun skins you can purchase, but nothing gives you competitive advantage in the game.

Minecraft :)

Good point. I guess it's the exception though. Interesting that it probably had similar user numbers for the first few years as Angry Birds but just had a lot deeper and more "creator"-type gameplay.

And it flat out refuses to run without an internet connection to fetch ads!

When the recent Sonic the Hedgehog re-release from SEGA did this I just deleted it off my phone. shrugs

Same! Instant delete. I hope game publishers start to get the message

Oops, is it any of these? https://nobsgames.stavros.io/ios/?name=sonic

I was told they only contain DLC.

The issue is that there is no offline play until you purchase - furthermore SEGA still advertises their own games if you're connected to the internet.

Any app, IMHO, that requires to be connected to the internet to play so it can deliver you ads doesn't belong on this list.

Sonic 1, 2 and CD at least behave like this atm.

Does it require you to be connected to the internet? Or does it show you an ad if you are? Also, it shows an ad even if you pay? That doesn't sound great...

I really respect your effort, but something tells me that the list is going to be very short indeed if you don't allow any toxicity at all

It looks like you have a "DLC" flag, maybe add "Online Only" to the list as well..

I was disappointed to find out Pro Evolution Soccer, by far the best and most realistic soccer game on Android, has this always-online requirement as well. Makes the game completely unusable when on the subway.

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