Re:Why I don't play mobile games on my smartphone
by beatgammit on Sunday May 19, 2019 @10:32AM
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They'd probably lose a ton of money if they allowed you to filter those out. People seem to pay more with in-app purchases than up front purchases, so it makes little sense for them to offer such a feature.
And in-app purchases can be done well (e.g. pay to remove ads functions basically like a free trial for me), but they've become predatory since they've started influencing game design.
Re:Why I don't play mobile games on my smartphone
by arkades on Sunday May 19, 2019 @09:17PM
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> They'd probably lose a ton of money if they allowed you to filter those out.
Oh, I agree - which is why I don’t buy the idea that the App Store editors try to highlight “premium” games. Making them easily discoverable would be trivial - but cuts against their profit motive.
That’s funny, because I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the App Store.
The one function I’ve been waiting for, both directly as a customer and as a parental control, is to be able to have the app store search filter out results with in-app purchases.
Right now there is no way to effectively -find- real premium games, let alone purchase them. Of course they’re going to die under the flood of freemium garbage.