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In the last 5-7 years I've noticed that mobile games have devolved info always online p2w shit

What the fuck happened?

The only good games on phone are now emulators and a few Foss games

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[–] frog@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You get what you pay for. If you download a free game, then of course it's going to be full of pay-to-win microtransactions. Although there are issues with greed in some larger games run by big companies, the reality is that game devs deserve to earn a living too, and that means at some point a game needs to be paid for.

There are still plenty of good quality mobile games out there, they just don't tend to be free to download. Back when I had more free time, I actually got good usage out of the Play Pass on Android, which was £5 a month and gave me access to a catalogue of excellent mobile games with no microtransactions at all, the vast majority of which were single-player, offline games. Literally the only reason I'm not still subscribed is I just don't have time to play mobile games at the moment - the chances of me subscribing again over the summer when I'm not at uni is high.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

You also don't get what you pay for when it comes to mobile. Had some games get delisted so it's not even downloadable anymore and even though I kept it on my phone I can't run it because it fails the license check. Mobile game isn't worth spending money on.

[–] quenpwn@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Gacha games

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Best mobile games are Nintendo DS games that are completely touch based, which end up feeling like native experiences such as Kirby Mass Attack.

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

There was someone in reddit awhile back that started a community review site because there were so many bad games to sort through. I've found some good ones through there

https://minireview.io/

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Because everything sucks now.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago

The only good new mobile games are on Apple Arcade, which is behind a paywall. It sucks but what can ya do.

[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not gonna lie I'm still hitting clash of clans... Paid for maybe 5 months of gold pass but no longer been playing since I was in middle school. Took like 6 years off though

[–] goatbeard@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Super Auto Pets

[–] Turmbaumeister@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Have they ever been good? The sad thing I can tell you as a mobile dev(not game though) is that people on Android don’t want to pay for apps or games, on iOS it’s a bit better but still way worse than PC or PlayStation. There’s also rampant piracy on Android, both from users but even more so from shady app clones Google ignores. As a result free to play, always online with microtransactions is basically the only way to make money

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

At least in Android you can install old games yet, I just installed Nimble Quest and had a blast as of recently.

The good ones are mostly pc ports (dead cells, stardew vally)

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