And they’re doled out for free at a pretty generous pace to begin with. I climbed to the top of my friends’ weekly tourney without ever using a power-up. Note that these iFrames still require flash so they won’t work on many mobile devices.Īngry Birds Friends feels great and doesn’t have that nagging feeling of being “free to play” only in the loosest sense, only to drop the monetization hammer later on. So you don’t need to hear our impressions of how Angry Birds Friends controls with a mouse instead of a touch screen – you can just check it out for yourself. One very cool detail is that after clearing any of the standard stages players can actually embed it on their blog, Facebook wall or anywhere else on the web using a handy iFrame, like the one above. Several props are also available for free. Zynga has been known to charge more than $5 for a single virtual Farmville building, for example. Some will insist that paying any amount of money for virtual goods is a little crazy, but compared to many social games these prices are fairly inexpensive.
Prices vary, but most props range between $1.00 - $3.00. That power-up will start to look a lot more attractive…Īngry Birds Friends also makes money by letting gamers customize their bird avatar. You might tell yourself that you’d never resort to spending cash to climb a virtual leaderboard, but let’s see how you feel when you’re just a few points away from climbing to number one. Players can buy power-ups like a bird super-sizer or a super-powered slingshot to help give them an edge. The catch is that everyone wants to beat their friends on the leaderboards – it’s human nature.
“So what’s the catch?” you’re undoubtedly asking yourself.
Angry Birds Friends is completely free-to-play.
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