Then use a game pad. AppleTV has allowed developers to require game pads for a while now.
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Apple Announces 'Apple Arcade' Cross-Platform Subscription Games Service With Access to Over 100 Titles
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I hate the future now. It's all subscription services.
Yeah, if the developers decide to support those gamepads...
Maybe that 1 billion+ of these apple devices are already out in the hands of customers who are looking for ways to spend their money. Yep. That's definitely what they are thinking.
No doubt WWDC announcement. Note they didn’t give price and said they have more to share soon. I for one am amped! I love playing rocket league, apex and Forza atm but sometimes I do chill and play simple games on my iPad. I’ll give arcade a go.
Yep, soon they figure out how to take the payments directly out of our paychecks so when we get paid each week we'll just have the 73 cents left over after covering all our subscriptions... probably with an ad that reads something like "For just 73 cents per week you can now have coffee delivered directly to your cubical at the office - tap below to sign up!"
Taking whatever I save a year on not signing up for this and using that to partially subsidize a Nintendo Switch and some Switch games is a much better deal IMO. I definitely won't be using it, but good luck Apple.
Unless something changed, World of Warcraft is available on Mac.
And if you want to start in the graveyard, simply pick Undead for your character race.
I don't think they did a very good job on explaining how this is going to accomplish anything.
The goal here has to be put an end, or at least a major dent, into the freemium model. When people aren't willing to pony up a mere $1.99 for a game, let alone $9.99, what is going to convince them to pay $9.99 a month (guessing at the unannounced price) instead?
Apple has still done nothing to enable or encourage the simple strategy that used to sell games without issue: FREE. DEMO.
Let people download the full game and play the first level. Or better yet, give them early access to a demo before the game is even released. Once someone knows that the game is worth it, they will pay for it.
The goal here has to be put an end, or at least a major dent, into the freemium model. When people aren't willing to pony up a mere $1.99 for a game, let alone $9.99, what is going to convince them to pay $9.99 a month (guessing at the unannounced price) instead?
Apple has still done nothing to enable or encourage the simple strategy that used to sell games without issue: FREE. DEMO.
Let people download the full game and play the first level. Or better yet, give them early access to a demo before the game is even released. Once someone knows that the game is worth it, they will pay for it.
Ooh a snappy and passive aggressive apple defender, my favourite.
There are two types of people. Those that play free phone games to pass time while waiting for a bus or an appointment or whatnot, and those who are actual gamers willing to pay for games. You know what the latter have? PCs, PS4s, and Xboxes.
one more nod! Unfortunately this is all lost on fresh meat...
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This is all true on the assumption that all people who play mobile games would be interested in "real" games. The thing is that not everyone has the desire to play more involved games. Casual gaming is widely more accessible for those who are not into something more involved.
For us, who grew up with old games, casual gaming wasn't really available, so you had to put effort regardless and those of us who stuck at it, like involved games till to this day. I think this in the end is way more complicated issue. There is more than just one factor at play.
Too many subscriptions. You're not allowed to own anything anymore...rent rent rent.
A couple of my most favorite games are on AppleTV.
But there seems to be nothing in *years* since ATV4 came out as far as games.
I guess many publishers don't want to make their games ATV compatible because monitization on it is sort of difficult.
I hope this "arcade" changes things...
if it doesn't, then there's no use...
But there seems to be nothing in *years* since ATV4 came out as far as games.
I guess many publishers don't want to make their games ATV compatible because monitization on it is sort of difficult.
I hope this "arcade" changes things...
if it doesn't, then there's no use...
Lets just say you got it wrong. It would be less painful than trying to defend Apple for anything gaming related. It's not like the Pippin changed the world and they've been on a roll ever since.
I’m very interested in this. I hope this brings more indie like quality games to iOS devices. Currently it’s saturated with freemium *****. Being able to continue gaming on the Mac is a big plus. But I want more from Game Center. Make it a Xbox live arcade variant across devices.
At risk of gatekeeping...this is a poor justification response that only sounds good to people who aren't into gaming.
There's almost no AAA titles available on the Mac. The games you listed are all low budget indie titles or very old. The Mac just gets "fast food" games that are low production cost or ported many years later.
It's like a movie theater that only shows Hallmark and Disney Channel originals, with fans that point out the large volume of content as proof that they have a good selection.
This is what it sounds like to a gamer:
"What do you mean by 'there's no good restaurants in this town'? There are hundreds of restaurants in this city, including super popular restaurants like Burger King and Taco Bell. Plus, with McDonalds, one of the most popular restaurants in the world at the moment is available in this town."
With a push to mobile levels of software, so the hardware will follow. Honestly this is a death nail for decent hardware in the Mac line up. If you have been FINALLY hanging out for an iMac or MBP thats not an under-clocked, over-priced, intel-graphics dominated exercise in mediocrity, then I have some bad news. It will never happen. We are chasing the casual consumer market baby!
The whole point is to give an alternative to those AAA games and instead expose indie games that can't survive on freemium.
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Play those Xbox games on a bus or plane, or in another room..... or the yard.....or the back seat of a car.....
There is a third group that will pay for premium games on IOS ($10 for Ember, $6 for Warhammer Quest 2 + $10 for additional DLC quests, $15-20 for some Square Enix titles, etc.), but when you look at how websites like TouchArcade are faring, we're becoming a dying breed.
Freemium has mostly killed premium gaming on IOS.