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Microsoft Launches Classic Solitaire Game on iOS

Tubamajuba said:
Who in their right mind is going to pay $24 a year just to play Solitaire with no ads? $2 one time charge? Fine. Heck, a $10 one time charge wouldn't be unreasonable. But an ongoing subscription? No way.

This is why my Windows 10 PC has the original Windows 9x Solitaire on it instead of this bloated, ad filled (or expensive- you choose!) piece of crap.
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Windows 10 Solitaire has ads?

My God...
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Glassed Silver:ios
 
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I guess we get the latest Windows version for free with the subscription service, right?
 
What's it's playload? Prism?

Or has MS developed Windows emulator for iOS and this is the first of many. We should soon know if they release MS Edge or Explorer browsers.
 
If someone is looking for a very good solitaire app, I'd recommend:

Solebon Solitaire – 50 Card Games by Solebon LLC
https://appsto.re/us/wMp4q.i

This may be the first app I bought back when the App Store launched and they've come along for the ride, still updating.
 
leftynaut said:
$2 a month to subscribe to a solitaire game? You're out of your mind, MS.
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they have been charging the same $1.99 a month to get rid of the commercials in the windows 10 version. why would they do anything different in the iPhone and iPad versions?
 
rigormortis said:
they have been charging the same $1.99 a month to get rid of the commercials in the windows 10 version. why would they do anything different in the iPhone and iPad versions?
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Because an OS is infinitely more useful and complex to create than a Solitaire game?

PS: I think neither should have ads.

Glassed Silver:ios
 
Well, I played perhaps half a dozen rounds of Klondike, and no ads yet. The card motion is still nowhere as good as "Eric Snider's Solitaire: Klondike", which costs $0.99, once. That one hasn't been updated in 3 years (and now elicits a "this may slow down your phone" warning), but it has really smooth, natural, card animations, and you can "fling" cards towards their destinations. I started playing that one on my Palm Pilot, back in the Jurassic era.
 
Nice port. I remember playing TriPeaks as part of the in the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack back in the day, which I still have the floppy of. I have a bunch of iOS clones and entire rip-offs of those games I've gotten through the years.

I especially like that they added the classic ending animation to Klondike.
 
Remember the solitaire game on the iPods? All the hours listening to my favorite music and just playing solitaire. Now I sometimes have to turn off my music to concentrate on Boom Beach or whatever other complicated game I use to pass the time... I never thought I would miss *boredom* but man, the early 2000's were really a precious time in retrospect.
 
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As stupid as $2 a month is, I remember when pretty much every game came on floppies and cost £25+ regardless of how much you were likely to play it.. Unless it was old.

.. I still wouldn't pay $2/month for solitaire though haha.
 
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