By exclusivity I mean for Apple devices, which is what I cover in the redundancy portion. If you want to own these games on your Mac, the Mac versions are not for sale on Steam. Only the Windows versions. Mac versions are only available on Apple Arcade.
Well that's not true. I use a Macbook Pro as my daily driver and there's a lot of gamers who use Macs as their editing machines or daily drivers.
Ah ok, I gotcha. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I need to clarify then. Gamers do use Macs/iPhones etc - they are great devices after all.
I think Apple Arcade is meant for families who can set up their kids’ devices and not have to worry about i.e. pay to win or weirded adds popping up. I agree, the games don’t speak to me, but I’m not sure I am the target audience.
That is easy. First Apple One makes the cost invisible for me. Second, Apple is always adding new games. I have purchased tons of games on iOS and I prefer not having Ads and pay to win features in the games. Some of the recent Apple Arcade games have been really high quality.
If Apple Arcade didn't have the word "Apple" in it, no one would give it a second glance. This is brand idolatry leading to a lot of apologizing for a terribad product. Games can be so much more, so much better, than what Apple Arcade promotes as "entertainment."
You can like what you like, no one can take that away from you, but don't be surprised if some of us have higher standards for how we spend our limited entertainment money and time. The only "unreasonable" here is people acting surprised that gaming, like everything, has an enormous range of experiences. Just because Apple platforms are largely left out of the broader gaming universe doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Celebrating Apple Arcade is essentially justifying Apple's fearful, not-invented-here approach to gaming that has held the platform back for 40 years.
Yeah, that is fair. I probably would not have considered it if it wasn't Apple to even try it. So far, I never felt like it wasn't worth $5 dollars even I actually had to pay that.
That's actually why I use the service the way that I do. There are six or seven games on it that I play on my Mac and three or four on my phone (not counting games that I have finished). I turn on the service for the months of the year that I want to play those particular games (Im too busy to seriously game most months of the year). I maybe pay for two ore three months a year, and get a lot of use out of it when I have it active. The game states are saved as they were when the account was active.
