Why do mobile games suck nowadays?

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sleepybisexual@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

In the last 5-7 years I’ve noticed that mobile games have devolved info always online p2w shit

What the fuck happened?

The only good games on phone are now emulators and a few Foss games

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stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Best mobile games are Nintendo DS games that are completely touch based, which end up feeling like native experiences such as Kirby Mass Attack.

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frog@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You get what you pay for. If you download a free game, then of course it’s going to be full of pay-to-win microtransactions. Although there are issues with greed in some larger games run by big companies, the reality is that game devs deserve to earn a living too, and that means at some point a game needs to be paid for.

There are still plenty of good quality mobile games out there, they just don’t tend to be free to download. Back when I had more free time, I actually got good usage out of the Play Pass on Android, which was £5 a month and gave me access to a catalogue of excellent mobile games with no microtransactions at all, the vast majority of which were single-player, offline games. Literally the only reason I’m not still subscribed is I just don’t have time to play mobile games at the moment - the chances of me subscribing again over the summer when I’m not at uni is high.

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- stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You also don’t get what you pay for when it comes to mobile. Had some games get delisted so it’s not even downloadable anymore and even though I kept it on my phone I can’t run it because it fails the license check. Mobile game isn’t worth spending money on.
  
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realitista@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because everything sucks now.

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infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shatter…

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grimdev…

They are out there but I struggle to find good ones.

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- tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There was someone in reddit awhile back that started a community review site because there were so many bad games to sort through. I’ve found some good ones through there
  
  minireview.io
  
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- Bazz@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Threes: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vo.threes.e…
  
  You must build a boat: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eightye…
  
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quenpwn@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Gacha games

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redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The good ones are mostly pc ports (dead cells, stardew vally)

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Turmbaumeister@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Have they ever been good? The sad thing I can tell you as a mobile dev(not game though) is that people on Android don’t want to pay for apps or games, on iOS it’s a bit better but still way worse than PC or PlayStation. There’s also rampant piracy on Android, both from users but even more so from shady app clones Google ignores. As a result free to play, always online with microtransactions is basically the only way to make money

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goatbeard@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Super Auto Pets

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boomer@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What you call rigamarole is the standard way to map button presses to tge screen. It only looks like rigamarole to a PC user who is coming to gripa with how a controller interfaces with a screen. A third party mapping utility is STANDARD use case because you’re mapping button presses to the screen. That’s litterally how it works and it works well. When we mobile game players play games THIS is how we play and this IS THE reason why what you call “mobile games” TsumTsum candy crush etc are losing popularity because people be playing more intense games on mobile these days. Because of controller support.

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- sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you game on controller on android I think you’d love an android gaming handheld. Tho I don’t get the whole clip on controller thing
  
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  - boomer@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s what we do. Xbox controller comes with a clip on. This is mobile gaming. Been this way for about 5 years now. Popularized by pubg at first but then more of this controller style games came along and the button mapper apps got a lot better. Right now the best are Octopus and Mantis. I prefer mantis.
    
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kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
At least in Android you can install old games yet, I just installed Nimble Quest and had a blast as of recently.

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Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The only good new mobile games are on Apple Arcade, which is behind a paywall. It sucks but what can ya do.

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Blxter@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not gonna lie I’m still hitting clash of clans… Paid for maybe 5 months of gold pass but no longer

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