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I played for a while on my phone but gave up because it's too much hassle to remember and enter things like phone numbers and passwords.

I know that's kind of the point, but I think it would be much more playable and still get the point across if you made text fields automatic.

As it is, I expect 99% of players will get to the create account screen on the phone and bail.

It would also help give the game some personality: when I have to create phone account, let me choose from 3 personas: one male, one female, and one clearly fake.



Not saying you're wrong, but I don't really understand people's aversion to creating an account. It's like quitting an RPG once they reach the create a character screen.

Also, it seems like ~60% of people give up before creating an account.


You should use this as a sign that people don't understand "creating an account" as part of the game.


I guess if they can't figure that out then they probably wouldn't have a very good time with the rest of the game.


> As it is, I expect 99% of players will get to the create account screen on the phone and bail.

That's what I did, sorry. Didn't want to write down the generated user name and loong password etc.


You're missing the point.




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