App: Panini Virtual Stickers

by Matt on 14 June 2010

http://en.stickeralbum.fifa.com/

The future of football stickers! Just like you remember – except you can't touch them.

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Pros

Hat-trick

They’ve actually done this quite well. The ripping of the packets with the movement of your mouse is a lovely little touch. And the idea of doing swaps with other users is another good addition.

Of course there’s all the teams from the world cup there (though luckily you just have to complete the first team rather than the whole squad). There’s badges to unlock. Clicking on the flags will jump you to that team’s page although you can do page-turns one at a time if you get particular joy out of that.

One lovely feature (on top of the player’s qualifying stats) is that you can see their old stickers and hair cuts from previous world cups. Someone has a sense of humour.

Cons

Missed chance

Well it’s not really stickers is it? There’s no real sense of achievement and nothing to take home after you’ve completed it. And harder to beat kids up over. Maybe you could have a go at them on Facebook?

The biggest issue is you just have to wait for new stickers to arrive and you can only do it bit at a time. So you have to remember to keep logging back in to get it completed. Which is kinda realistic but not really a rival to more exciting online games.

It also makes the leader board kinda pointless. As you can’t cheat time.

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