Little hint,
Forcing your personal gaming idiosyncrasies on your girlfriend is a great way to lose a girlfriend.
If she prefers Apple products and plans to acquire more, let her make up her own mind.
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Report: Apple is spending $500M+ to secure games for Apple Arcade, games will be permitted to release on PC/consoles after a few months of exclusivity
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Little hint,
Forcing your personal gaming idiosyncrasies on your girlfriend is a great way to lose a girlfriend.
If she prefers Apple products and plans to acquire more, let her make up her own mind.
This is not shocking in any way much like Epics approach. Exclusive content is an approach that is well exercised outside of gaming (now, exclusives used to be more common). I'm sure these companies have data showing people will bend and enter their ecosystem to get at content early when exclusive.
Maybe if they release a successor to SE I might change my mind. Ain't gifting anyone €700 phones lol.
Can't imagine that a single person would be champing at the bit SO much for mobile games that they'd be willing to pay for a subscription just so they can get the game a few months early, but who knows?
Unless a developer shuts down, I would bet money that 90% or more of these games will be available officially on other devices where it will play appropriately.
That's not true. Quality/good paid mobile games come out every month, not to mention great ports
I mean generally speaking anyone who buys into a subscription for only 1 game likely is making a bad decision. But in general, paying for a sub that will give you access to hundreds of titles can't be a bad deal unless you are a super specific type of gamer.
Yeppers. Seems many think that every game will be released on xx yy platform after a term of exclusivity on Apple Arcade. They won't, there will be "mobile" only games as there is now that won't move anywhere.
I'm still unsure what's actually left to scrape out of the premium mobile game barrel. Everyone who knows they have something is F2P, the rest are limited by the same problems they always have. People don't pay upfront on mobile and the fight for attention means that games have to be redesigned to make a dent anyway, and that's not even getting into the hardware issues.
I agree. I suppose its admirable that they're even trying, but mobile gaming has no inherent value and no future.
It's not a market worth saving really.
I have a strong feeling this will be a disappointment for a company like Apple who usually shoots for the moon.
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this is way cheaper than just creating a bunch of studios from the ground up. for a company like apple that has no experience in game development, that will be a super expensive project to establish a few first party studios that are able to put out good games, and even if they started right now it'll take years before they'll be able to put out any game.
i feel like it's gonna fail and get shut down after a year or two, but at least a bunch of good premium mobile games will come out of it that will also come to other platforms.
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if the sub numbers aren't there, i don't see why they would continue sinking money into it, and i don't think the number will be very high.
Were most of these games already done by the time they were moneyhatted? (serious question, I don't know either way)
I mean what you're saying is basically the same thing...
Companies pay to have exclusives, whether it makes it or commissions it, so those games aren't on other platforms.
What you said is a contradiction. No one will invest to bring ideas to life if they can't benefit from them directly, in this case through the use of exclusivity.
Hell, in general, I think Apple not having these as longer exclusives is a weird deal in itself.
I think time exclusive is more like a "later deal", than an investment deal on the beginning of a project.
Example:
Halo -> Exclusive, ok with it! They developed interally or with a studio partner, with the focus on the exclusive hardware.
Third party game -> Exclusive for 1 year... why? Just marketing deal. Nothing gained from a gamer prespective... if you own the hw you are ok, if you are not you will get the same a year later...
Maybe i'm wrong...
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true, it just depends on how viable you think the market for premium mobile games are. there's a reason we're not seeing them as much as we used to, most people have proven that for them the free games on mobile are good enough, i just don't think enough of them would be interested in subbing month after month to keep playing apple arcade games.
