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GameClub Launches With Access to Dozens of Classic Games on iPhone and iPad for $4.99 Per Month
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I beta tested gameclub and quite honestly, I'd of rather just paid $3 a game title for the games I wanted. I appreciated the revitalizing of more than a few games I really liked. At the same time I really am not in the mood for another $5 a month service.
I'll be curious if these guys make it as they did great work by resurrecting a bunch of iOS games.
I'll be curious if these guys make it as they did great work by resurrecting a bunch of iOS games.
I discovered this by accident last week when browsing through my old purchases. One of them, Grimm, had been updated for the first time in years. It had been a good game but abandoned with the 32-to-64-bit transition. When I downloaded it, I discovered it was now part of this Game Club venture.
To my surprise, rather than asking me to pay for a subscription, it was already unlocked because I had purchased the app in the past. That’s classy.
To my surprise, rather than asking me to pay for a subscription, it was already unlocked because I had purchased the app in the past. That’s classy.
Wait, so someone is attempting to compete with Apple inside of their own space? Yeah, that’s not going to last for long.
How so?
App developers are allowed to make money. "Supply & Demand" will sort things out, personally I don't see this Game Cube subscription staying around long. I assume they're counting on the subscribers to forget charges hitting credit cards each month and never cancelling.
While I wish this company success, I've never heard of any of these "Classic" titles... Good luck.
He must be one of the 3 guys who watch porn on the internet if my in person street survey numbers were correct.
Maybe Apple is working on their own emulator via licensing deals? Prob not but would be interesting.
Just like Apple Arcade, all the games suck.
Why does it seem that as the hardware has gotten better, the games have gotten worse?
You can't tell me that the frigging A13 is not capable of running a PS4, or even PS3 game. I'm sure as shirt certain that it is capable.
Why does it seem that as the hardware has gotten better, the games have gotten worse?
You can't tell me that the frigging A13 is not capable of running a PS4, or even PS3 game. I'm sure as shirt certain that it is capable.
The whole point of this is to preserve classic games that aren't worth maintaining due to declining sales to new users … so of course it's a subscription. Makes a lot of sense to me: Keep maintaining games as long as someone wants to pay for it.
This was already deep in development at that point. They've been doing Test Flight betas for it since before Arcade was even announced.
Based on what? Apple approved all not only the Game Club app itself, which is mostly just a catalog of the games available in the service and lets you buy the subscription itself, but they approved all of the updates to the individual games that are available through the service now. If they were going to "shut it down" they wouldn't have approved in excess of 50 updates all having to do with this.
This is quite possibly the most ridiculous comment I've ever read given the context. What precisely about a $5/month subscription for all-you-can-play gaming is nickle-and-diming? What does this even have to do with Apple itself?
While I wish this company success, I've never heard of any of these "Classic" titles... Good luck.
Then you either weren't around or weren't paying attention to games when they were originally released.
Hook Champ and its sequels were massively popular at the time and extremely well reviewed. A 2012 Wired article about Android gaming holds it up as a shining example of a great game only available on iOS.
Super Crate Box was a very popular indie PC game before being ported to Mac and then iOS.
Minigore, which is launching next week, was popular enough to spawn a sequel, and its main character appeared in other games, both on the App Store and other platforms.
The list goes on and on. The fact that you haven't heard of them says more about you than it does the titles they've chosen to resurrect.
Well, glad we got that out of the way. Guess we can all stop our subscriptions to both of the services now since PastaPrimav, the ultimate arbiter of taste, has laid bare the truth.
and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that! he should, however, find a way to keep that off of his children's ipad...
Most of these games came out 8-10 years ago, so back when you were still crawling around your Mom's kitchen floor.While I wish this company success, I've never heard of any of these "Classic" titles... Good luck.
I thought so too. Maybe with the advent of Apple Arcade, they've changed the rules to avoid dealing with developers complaining about unfair advantages.
Haha. No, they are never going to be in your face, encouraging you to unsubscribe from stuff. For obvious reasons.
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He must be very precocious, as his profile says he joined MacRumors over eight years ago.
I really like some of the older iOS games I can't play anymore. I still regret not finishing Tiny Thief. That being said if I was going to subscribe to a gaming service Apple Arcade would be much more attractive.
excuse me? Why the hell are you (or anyone else) giving a 2 year old a ****ing mobile device.
Thought they did not approve something like that earlier in the year?This was already deep in development at that point. They've been doing Test Flight betas for it since before Arcade was even announced.
Based on what? Apple approved all not only the Game Club app itself, which is mostly just a catalog of the games available in the service and lets you buy the subscription itself, but they approved all of the updates to the individual games that are available through the service now. If they were going to "shut it down" they wouldn't have approved in excess of 50 updates all having to do with this.
This is quite possibly the most ridiculous comment I've ever read given the context. What precisely about a $5/month subscription for all-you-can-play gaming is nickle-and-diming? What does this even have to do with Apple itself?
Then you either weren't around or weren't paying attention to games when they were originally released.
Hook Champ and its sequels were massively popular at the time and extremely well reviewed. A 2012 Wired article about Android gaming holds it up as a shining example of a great game only available on iOS.
Super Crate Box was a very popular indie PC game before being ported to Mac and then iOS.
Minigore, which is launching next week, was popular enough to spawn a sequel, and its main character appeared in other games, both on the App Store and other platforms.
The list goes on and on. The fact that you haven't heard of them says more about you than it does the titles they've chosen to resurrect.
Well, glad we got that out of the way. Guess we can all stop our subscriptions to both of the services now since PastaPrimav, the ultimate arbiter of taste, has laid bare the truth.
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