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by Grollicus 1476 days ago
The worst thing (for me) about this is that whenever I go to the Apple App store I get bombarded will all these "games" that just try to make my life actively worse.

I don't understand why they pollute their brand like that.
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Hermel 1476 days ago
That's the key!

The Play Store and the App Store do not even have a search filter for games without in-app purchases. I'm sure that is on purpose.

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voganmother42 1476 days ago
Apple arcade seems to fulfill this function ( albeit subscription cost instead of in app purchases )
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snikeris 1476 days ago
The trouble is that sometimes in-app purchases means the game is a demo, and you use the in app purchase to buy the full game. There are good games that follow this model that you’ll miss out on if you filter out in app purchases.
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toxik 1476 days ago
Perhaps they would stop doing that if such a filter existed in the first place.
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thebigspacefuck 1475 days ago
Usually paid games don’t have in-app purchases. This site is also helpful: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
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chii 1476 days ago
it would make sense to scrape the data, and create an alternative search engine with such filters imho...
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TheRealDunkirk 1476 days ago
Good point. I get upset with Hulu because they won’t distinguish ad-supported titles in their apps.
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Joeri 1476 days ago
Because of the money. Games account for approximately 70 percent of the entire App Store’s revenue, and 98 percent of in-app purchase revenue. Apple is not very motivated to stop these practices because it makes them many billions of dollars.
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thejosh 1476 days ago
I really like the concept of [Playpass](https://play.google.com/intl/en_au/about/play-pass/), for Android, it gives you a tonne of really good games that aren't pay to win, have offline support and are fun. I don't really play many games anymore, especially on mobile, but I found a few when I went away on holiday and wanted to play a few games here and there when travelling.
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languageserver 1476 days ago
This is made by the company that gave us Warcraft III reforged. A money grab that made the game worse and ruined the already existing game. they have no goodwill.
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creakingstairs 1476 days ago
It was very surprising how bad reforged was when brood war remake was excellent. Even Diablo 2 remake was great.
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tomwilson 1476 days ago
It's a huge chunk of their "services revenue". It's their dirty little secret.
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