[whywhywhywhy]

Grim to see even Nintendo who stand by their principles to such a degree elsewhere find themselves capitulating to garbage mobile profit models when on a phone.

iOS and Android app stores are where creativity, quality and talent goes to die. Whole thing could disappear tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost.

[robotnikman]

I remember the iOS pp store having tons of creative games when it first launched. You paid once and that was it. I miss those days.

[guessbest]

There still is, but they don't make it to the top of the grossing charts.

[whywhywhywhy]

And my fave games from that era are no longer runnable on modern iOS.

Shenzhen Solitaire is probably the only quality pay once game I could name on the current App Store. There was one other but the dev stopped paying for an App Store license.