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by k1rcher 1701 days ago
Gone are the days of Jelly Car. Now it’s enormously rare to find any sort of mobile game that does _not_ have either invasive ads with arbitrary timers and intentionally hard to click dismiss buttons or egregious in-app-purchase models
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heartbreak 1701 days ago
The entire Apple Arcade collection are games without invasive ads, arbitrary timers, or IAP models.

You pay the arcade subscription ($5/mo or Apple One) and the games are all free downloads.

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k1rcher 1701 days ago
This is very interesting and good to know. I rarely game on my phone these days, but every now and then I get that itch. I’ll check out their catalogue.
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joshstrange 1701 days ago
They have also been adding games that aren't exclusives to them and initially launched on the main App Store. They are all the games that have a "+" after their name. Essentially the same game will all IAP removed/made free.
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mcphage 1701 days ago
I love those so much—so many great older games out there have since become unplayable because of constant intrusive ads. Like, shortly before Cut The Rope+ came out, I tried replaying the original Cut The Rope, and got an unskippable ad after every reset (or every other?). Apple Arcade gave me a way to play it again, without spending more time watching ads than actually playing.
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joshstrange 1701 days ago
Ads breaking old games is so frustrating. I wanted to play Risk and downloaded the official app but the ads are broken such that they never "finish" and I have to kill the app and relaunch between games to continue. I'm happy to pay for removal but I refuse to pay without being able to try the game. Same story with PvZ, they added ads everywhere and ruined the game that I paid full price for. They don't even let you remove ads or restore purchases (which feels very wrong) until you've played the first 10 levels or so. I loved PvZ so much but EA ruined it completely.
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mcphage 1700 days ago
What makes me angry is when I pay to remove ads for some of these games, and then a year or two later they show me ads anyway.
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Gigachad 1701 days ago
The developer of Jelly Car just announced he is working on Jelly Car 4 btw.
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