Anxieyote
Sobriety over everything else • 30 • Midwest
- Mar 24, 2021
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I have been subscribing to Apple's "Apple Arcade" service on my phone. One of the things I have been doing to satisfy my OCD and pass the time is going through the Apple Arcade library and rating and reviewing each game. I write little articles about each one, and rate them on a scale of 1-10. Apple Arcade has limited time exclusivity contracts for some of these games, but I naively-assumed that the games I hadn't gotten to yet would remain on the service for as long as Apple Arcade exists, or that there would be some way to still download or play the games in some form.
I woke up to news that a bunch of games that initially kickstarted the service are going to be leaving soon. No date is provided, so they are just going to be removed from the service at an indefinite time since Apple doesn't feel the need to provide a timeframe. Maybe I deserve my "surprised Pikachu face" reaction to this, but it makes me feel like my little passion hobby is completely pointless. Some of those games won't even be available on other platforms when their contract expires, so me documenting my experience with each one isn't going to have value in the grand scheme.
I feel swindled in some way, like "Hey…I have paid for this service for the past 3 years, you can't just take my games away from me."
But apparently, they can. I guess this is what we can expect if games adopt the Netflix model. It's disappointing, but I may have to give up trying to play through and experience each game that comes to the service, and just play the newer ones that will give me a fresh 3-year expiration date.
I woke up to news that a bunch of games that initially kickstarted the service are going to be leaving soon. No date is provided, so they are just going to be removed from the service at an indefinite time since Apple doesn't feel the need to provide a timeframe. Maybe I deserve my "surprised Pikachu face" reaction to this, but it makes me feel like my little passion hobby is completely pointless. Some of those games won't even be available on other platforms when their contract expires, so me documenting my experience with each one isn't going to have value in the grand scheme.
I feel swindled in some way, like "Hey…I have paid for this service for the past 3 years, you can't just take my games away from me."
But apparently, they can. I guess this is what we can expect if games adopt the Netflix model. It's disappointing, but I may have to give up trying to play through and experience each game that comes to the service, and just play the newer ones that will give me a fresh 3-year expiration date.
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