Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays?

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• popcar2@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Has it ever been better?

  Actually, yes, by a big margin. Back in ~2011 mobile games were actually trying to be great. Games like Edge Extended, World of Goo, Bounce Boing Voyage, Zenonia 2 & 3, etc.

  I remember early Humble Bundles being full of exciting games for mobile, now you’ll be lucky to find just one of them that isn’t filled to the brim with MTX

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  • DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember buying Bioshock on my iPhone way back in the mists of time, before decent controller support existed for iOS. The on screen controls weren’t great, so I didn’t spend much time playing it, always planning to come back at some point.

    Then it got removed from the App Store so completely that it disappeared from my purchased list, and that was that.

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  • erwan@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Survival of the fittest. As is, the type of game that makes the more money.

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i mean its not like you cant go onto the mobile store and buy games like stardew valley or terraria. its just that pay to play games have taken a back seat due to the profitability of free to play games.

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