Fail Arcade? You don't follow Apple's earnings reports do you? It was only a few days ago.
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More quality control for some of the games when running on macOS is needed. More graphics options would in many cases be nice and some games doesn't even have a quit button inside them, requiring one to press Cmd Q to quit or exiting full screen and then closing the game window and some doesn't hide the arrow cursor for the mouse/track pad in appropriate situations. On iOS and tvOS devices this isn't really a problem of course.
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Most of these games don't have a ton of replay value - they're not MMO or anything like that or endless runners, etc - so once you've played it, you're probably not going to play it again (for better or worse). Thus, if you stop playing, and loose access to the games, it's really not a huge deal. And, you can always cancel the subscription, and reactivate and still have access to all of your saved games.
same kind of person that pays to play internet based games toplay online to compete with others ... ON TOP of paying a subscription or monthly internet service plan for internet
Sadly Apple Arcade is not great at the moment. A nice idea but definitely not worth a subscription in its current state. The games are not that many and most of them are quite bad. Hopefully quality will improve, I might consider subscribing if they add a few actually nice games.
Ah yes. I'm sure that's why they run iPhone ads every year.
It’s funny to see people who play games on console or PC exclusively dog Apple Arcade. I game on every platform and I respect a platform that has no in app purchases or ads. Real gamers respect games of all forms.
You can disagree with whether or not Apple Arcade is a failure. You can't take the success of Apple the company and transfer it Arcade as a rebuttal. Well, you can but that logic doesn't make any sense.
That would be like saying Google is successful at selling ads therefore their Pixel line is successful too.
Why, are the games bad or something?
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This is all reasonable, but it's even better for them not to play video games.
– someone who played video games as a kid in the 2000s-2010s
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I'm just curious. why did you respond to a post without even reading it?
The discussion was about who would subscribe to a mobile gaming service. There was no discussion at all between me and the other posters about the quality of the games. We were only discussing the merits of the way the service itself functions. So can you please answer my question and explain why you thought it was worth asking a question that was completely irrelevant to what you were replying to?
Pretty simple thing to answer:
1) Apple Fans
2) People who are tired of ads and/or in-app purchases in 99% of the games out there.
3) Families who don't want games that push in=app purchases or ads to push through content.
4) Families with children who would rather pay 5 bucks a month and have no in-app popups pushing your child to spend money.
5) People who see some of the games as quality games and would play them on multiple devices.
6) People who want to support a market moving towards less in-app purchases and ads.
So even when he says you’re wrong, you hear that you’re right. He first said the games were good, but you were deaf to that. And the ability to play on the platform the games are *ON* doesn’t make him a blind faN. If someone was drawn to the Switch’s ability to play mobile or connected to a TV, that would *not* give you license to say “Gotcha. Just a Nintendo fan.” That’s a real plus, and so is the multiplatform nature of Apple Arcade. Now me, I’m paying not because the games are good (yet, hopefully) but because I hate the freemium model with a passion. I’m willing to pay a frankly near-trivial sum of money in the hopes that it moves the dial toward content. To be fair, I’m not convinced it has yet, and some of that is because I think Apple and I don’t entirely see eye to eye about what makes a good game. But I’ll give it some more time. And in the meantime, my subscription doesn’t stop me from buying new games on the App Store. And I still spend less money than any of the whales currently ruining ”free” iOS games.
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The Warcraft III Reforged disaster is 90% an example over how computer gamers have histrionic meltdowns over issues that are fairly minor to everybody but a very small number. Blizzard‘s new rules effectively hose the person who was going to make the next DOTA. One person deserves to be pissed about that, and that’s the guy who would have been making the next DOTA. Everybody else is engaging in fantasy just so they can get wound up. There were indeed some issues with the game but the meta critic score of 1.5 out of 10 is such a hilarious over-reaction to what is, frankly, a pretty damned good (and good-looking) game. The WC3R “disaster” is just childish over-reaction. You might want to pause and think a moment before you start waving the banner of childish over-reaction as “yet another reason why” you do what you do.
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Someone who plays them a bit and tries different ones? If Apple can keep adding new appealing games I can see why someone would subscribe.
Ofc for casual games liker Arcade is a no-brainer. For hardcore players, still nothing to look for here...
I've tried.
I've tried.
I replied to your post that was replying to one starting with this:
What's so bad about $5/mo then if it's not the quality of the games? Whatever, what's not worthwhile is talking to someone so dismissive. Might as well be sending to the real /dev/null.
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When the kids get older I will do this. At the moment I play once in a while so its not worth it for me. The kids however can be spared of the IAP scam. The gameplay of most free games nowadays is built around making you progress slowly and having just the basic layout and luring you into paying to progress faster and have a nicer and prettier layout. Not something I want the kids to play.
Great ads, and that second one... I wonder if it's a suggestion of full-body memoji support coming?
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So you never played any other game, and you deemed them uninteresting for you? Got it.
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So you never played any other game, and you deemed them uninteresting for you? Got it.
Cat Quest II, Lava, Oceanhorn 2 were all good at launch. Hardcore gamers play any good game on any platform. That’s what makes you hardcore. Most people who mock casual gamers turn out to be casual gamers who stick to games on the only system they own and only play them because of hype/other people. Nothing hardcore about that.
I didn't try Lava, but after playing Cat Quest 2 and Oceanhorn 2, both great games, that was it. I tried Baba Yaga, didn't like it, and tried that much hyped musical game (I forget the name of it, but it was made for a phone and I play on my ipad mini), so that was it, I cancelled my subscription. If they get more RPGs going, I'll subscribe again.