So the app randomly chooses wich invasion plan (out of five) it will use, right?
What if it ends up using the same one 2 or 3 games in a row? Can we opt to choose a diferent mission manualy?
Also if you need an app to run part of the game i start wondering how complex and convoluted the rules might be. Look at Ghost stories: that game plays itself against 4 players, using only cards and dice and it's streamlined and hard as nails. I'm sure FF could make something good without imediatly jumping to the app!
I'm definatly in the camp of people who don't like the requirement of the app.
a board game should be a board game, There's something ironic about having to use an xcom boardgame app on the same laptop i have the xcom pc game! Also, people's concern over wether this thing will still be playable in 5 years are valid.
Perhaps i'm being a bit unfair here but ingame apps seem about as succesfull as those atmosfear vhs games. And we all know we play these games once, and then we grow tired of them.
- be honest!