IAP Inspector: Marvel Avengers Academy

hello and welcome to poker game on up busy's in up inspector feature where we look at monetization of free-to-play games from the player's perspective so this week we're looking at tiny ko's marvel avengers academy the setup of which is superheroes marvel super heroes such as tony stark iron man and hulk wasp if you've heard of her i haven't um in a sort of high school setting as teenagers or interacting with one another and yeah that's that's essentially the promise it's um it's kind of a I guess you'd describe it as a management title it's hard to know how to place it and as you'll see here there's not a great deal of interaction these are people have sent off on missions earlier and which consists of

or quests are suppose or you send the one actions a certain number of actions in order to fulfill quests so here they're testing out at the blasting range it takes we're going to take black window 51 minutes and Iron Man's also there he's only got two minutes left okay so let's get that one so I can show you what looks like they get a little little something for that and okay let's go get some fresh air and you see him whizzing about the place but this is essentially it use just so busy work you you drag em actions on to them tell them what to keep them doing something and then essentially you leave it it's the sort of game it's not the sort of game you can sit and play for hours on end it's more very much designed around multiple small sessions per day sort of check in and see what's going on you

guys free now once it gets below 30 seconds it's free to skip so let's have a look at some of the currency so credits are the soft currency even though you know compared to a lot of free to play games you'd consider them relatively hard as in they're not doled out especially well their daughter regularly but in quite small numbers as rewards for quests and you can also buy them with real money as you can see there and shards are there the real hard currency which are in much higher demand as you've already seen mainly through and skipping wait timers but for other things which we're gonna look at in a minute so here's here's our quest log so let's see us go on with Professor pin the old films lab 416 credits so I can't

afford that as you can see and that's quite often a theme as I've said even though you can get those through normal play and you don't get that many of them so I'm going to need to do a lot more of the sort of tedious actions he's not doing anything right now siness send in to make some special modifications and skip that's while just to show you where you go that way and there you go so we're just essentially collecting these trying to gather coins so we can complete quests etc and already you mean there's not a great deal to show as you as you'll quickly see which is one of my main issues with it but in the full enough inspector article which I wrote on her game lab is the biggest problem was just the length of the wait timers

and the sense that there's nothing to do in between so say let's send something out a nice long one to talk to Jarvis two hours 16 16 shots together I don't have 16 shots and wasp is out for nearly four hours loki is out for nearly two hours and Black Widow still looks lasting range for the best part of an hour so what do you do in this situation essentially nothing unless you're willing to pay money to skip minions paradise was again that's broadly similar to this but at least that had some minigames to play in between this is there's a really quite a harsh um gay almost where non players are just told ya there's no mean

non-payers I just told you there's nothing you can do here so you know you might as well leave until leave for like an hour or so which seems to me quite a quite harsh way of doing things but as I said it is designed around those short play sessions but um just because it's designed around it I don't think it should necessarily mean that it's the player is forced into doing that into playing in that way when it should be a little more flexible I would argue that here's some of the other things you can spend money on so upgrade your heroes upgrade Iron Man 2 Rank 3 which gives him plus twenty percent of credits which would be quite useful actually but in order to do it requires 596 credits and also 10 of these science trophies which you get for completing missions I haven't completed many missions lately

so I'm very lacking on them so I can't afford that at all but you can also pay money to summon some of these are the characters some stage or another here we go so if you want to buy vision now then you can pay a thousand shards which is roughly yeah roughly around 16 16 pounds or more about twenty twenty dollars so that there are things to do but I the majority of them to too many of them I would argue requires yards and if you're not willing to spend money then essentially there's very little here for you include just all too much waiting and not enough to do in the interim essentially too much too much pressure

on spending wait timers incredibly long some of them with them quite high cost to just skip them and your shards even if you spent money which I did will be depleted quite quickly and as you can see not much progress to show for it so I think people even if they do spend will quickly realize all but the most die-hard Marvel fans will quickly realize that there is little value here and not worth sticking with I mean no matter how much you love quick played and dialogue and you know sort of fancy ever see interaction between characters it's only so much you can stomach I think so yeah and thanks for watching and see you next week