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Re:I hate what video games have become by shusaku on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:10PM (#30826714)
The other option is to apparently blanket your game with advertisements. I spent some time yesterday looking for word games in the iOS store, and it seems like everything was “free”, but had non stop, unskippable ads. One offered to remove ads for a fee, but even after paying they remained in various parts of the game.
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Re:I hate what video games have become by samatman on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:01AM (#30827553)
Some of that is that Apple's App Store search remains the worst search engine I'm forced to use, but some of it is evaporative cooling from Apple Arcade.

Most of the decent games have migrated there. I barely use it, but I think it works out to two bucks with the other iStuff I'm happy to pay for, and having a few games on my tablet or phone can be nice when I'm traveling.

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Re:I hate what video games have become by temp8964 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:35PM (#30826886)
Almost all top iOS games are like this now, iPhone App Store is an extremely toxic market for games.
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Re:I hate what video games have become by rstupek on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:07PM (#30832002)
what type of word game were you looking for?
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