Geoguessr free mode
You just completely ruined the game for free users, it's almost unplayable if you are not a pro user.
-you get 1 free high quality game every 24hrs which is just ridiculous
-the free mode is just horrible, to the point that it's actually frustrating to play
- quality is so bad you can't even read signs
-most locations don't even have a 360 degrees view
-you can't move with your mouse cursor, you have to use those dumb arrows
-You should revert it back to it's original phase, it almost looks like you're actually trying to kill the game as fast as possible
-you get 1 free high quality game every 24hrs which is just ridiculous
-the free mode is just horrible, to the point that it's actually frustrating to play
- quality is so bad you can't even read signs
-most locations don't even have a 360 degrees view
-you can't move with your mouse cursor, you have to use those dumb arrows
-You should revert it back to it's original phase, it almost looks like you're actually trying to kill the game as fast as possible
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If payment is so important I think a good idea is to make some maps free (world and continents) they would be as good as pro maps.
That means you can play casual stuff for free but if you want to play other maps and special countries etc you must pay the pro subscription.
Game was getting popular but then this pro stuff killed it completely and I understand why. What casual player who doesn't know much about geography would pay for a few rounds. I mean a kid (lets call him Mark), so Mark sees a nice youtube video on GeoGuessr theme and wants to give it a try, he types URL, enters and plays one round. He isn't satisfied with his score but he had fun so he decides to get the subscription and his parents let him have it. After a few rounds daily for a week he gets bored and never plays it again because he needs to pay for a few rounds as he doesn't play that much.
Game isn't killed, it's always played a lot. I can clearly see it on my map statistics, they even increased in the past months, and even more now with the lockdown in many countries.
Free maps using Google services will ruin the devs, no matter which maps you make: they load Google data? They will be expensive for devs. Make one single map free, people will just play it too much to not pay and ruin the devs by increasing the Google fees too much. They already make efforts with a daily free game + free daily challenge + introduction game that cost them money with no return (and I'm not even talking about free challenges and leagues!).
The free map is garbage? Indeed it is. Why? Because Google is expensive. Why is Google expensive? Because they multiplied their prices by 14 in the past. Why they could do that? Because nobody else can compete with Google. Mapillary, used for the free map, is the best competitor to Google Street View so you can have an idea of the power of Google in this domain.
To be clear: the only way to have a game like GeoGuessr free is either pushing Google to reduce their prices a lot (which requires some big business to make their own Street View service good enough to break Google's monopoly) or finding someone extra-rich (like billionaires) ready to give thousands of dollars per month to fund the game... Not easy, right?
Anyways if you want to complain about the situation, Google is who you're looking at, they're entirely responsible of this. But you'll just complain to a wall.
this is not fun anymore if have to pay money to play.
one map every 24 h is stupid when i played the daily challenges someone had 5000 points for every location. that person is either a bot or a creator of the game
It's freaking two or three bucks a month... people pay more for their coffee everyday but complain about this? If it keeps free for all then there will be annoying ads but it wont cover the costs probably so they might have to shut it down altogether.
- hint points, that could be bought
- merchandise that you already have
- interesting challenges for paying members only
and these are only a couple off the top of my mortal head.
Oh, they require more development time? Still beats coming up with a crappy marketing strategy and losing a lot of players. Shame
I created an account because I really enjoyed the game last I played a couple of years back. Instantly deleted it.
Everyone wants to get rich real fast.
Please elaborate, so I can become as enlightened as you
And the game doesn't need tons of players to live, it needs pro players because each time a player (free or pro) loads the game screen, the devs have to pay Google. So free players were pure loss for them, pro players pay for the costs they generates.
All of this was explained tens of times everywhere so next time just make a bit of search, it won't hurt anyone and avoid endless spam of messages like this that don't contribute to anything.
I discovered this game a lot of years ago and was amazing. But now, after a long time, I decided to play again. Now is just gargabe! Only one free play per day? Really? You should just delete your site!! I will not play again.
Second, if you took a bit of time to look around and educate yourself before throwing another useless rant, you would learn than you can play more than one free game per day.
Last, if you were to work hard to create a game that costs you money every time someone else plays it, would you be ok to pay those costs yourself? Pretty sure your answer will be no.
You're like the others, just an selfish person not thinking further than your own interests...
you're pathetic... that entitlement by some of you people is incredible. How do you expect the creator of the site to keep up with the costs? Server and the google api for the maps. They can't make it free forever. It's really cheap at only 2 bucks a month but no that's outrageous somehow
We all know it sucks but the origin of this is Google and both devs and us (the players) are helpless against it. The devs already take risks allowing a free daily game + free daily challenge + unlimited free playable challenge links and leagues so instead of complaining just use those possibilities.
Of course the completely free maps are trash, too often you can't even move and it's just an image, this is a no-go. The free game every 24 hours is more than enough for my way of playing the game.
But if you're that much into the game, want to improve, compete, etc, then the pro version is totally accessible ! What is 2 euros per month ? Really nothing when you are a dedicated player. If you fit into that definition, purchase it and live your best life, mate.