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by vhgyu75e6u 1481 days ago
I found most of your complains either false or non issue:

1. Ok, maybe a bug.

2. Given that is a mobile game and most people will no have the volume up, it is ok to have subtitles. Not to mention that games that start with subtitles are more accessible and the majority of players actually don't mind them and find them useful.

3. Fair, but given that this is a mobile game, V-sync can be a problem for lower end devices too.

4. False? I cleared the first mission and had no prompt for that and has not requested tracking at all. Android.

5. The hell you talking about? When you start you get a small cut scene and are given full control when they drop you off the ship.

6. The game is mostly online for what I can tell so updates are a given (and you can download areas separately)

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5. The hell you talking about?

The game literally removes the controls while you're being told how they work. They vanish. You can't do anything but sit there patiently while a game character lectures you about how a joystick works.

What next? "To use a key on your keyboard, apply sufficient downwards pressure that you hear a 'click'. Do this now!"

It's patronising to a level that I feel insulted and leave the game immediately.

Compare to the height of the PC game era -- which Blizzard games used to be the epitome of -- you get "dropped" into the game and you learn through discovery instead of an unskippable presentation.

The intro of Half Life is a classic example of how to do this well. This is the opposite of that.

Perhaps permission was not asked because permission was previously granted.

Example: every time I use Google maps it asks me to turn on location tracking, many people never encounter this because they leave location tracking on.