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

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    13·
    2 months ago

    Has it ever been better?

    What happened was that they made a fuckton of money that way.

    Ports of older PC games are also often quite good.

    • popcar2@programming.dev
      17·
      2 months ago

      Has it ever been better?

      Actually, yes, by a big margin. Back in ~2011 mobile games were actually trying to be great. Games like Edge Extended, World of Goo, Bounce Boing Voyage, Zenonia 2 & 3, etc.

      I remember early Humble Bundles being full of exciting games for mobile, now you’ll be lucky to find just one of them that isn’t filled to the brim with MTX or ads.

      • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I remember buying Bioshock on my iPhone way back in the mists of time, before decent controller support existed for iOS. The on screen controls weren’t great, so I didn’t spend much time playing it, always planning to come back at some point.

        Then it got removed from the App Store so completely that it disappeared from my purchased list, and that was that.

      • erwan@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        Survival of the fittest. As is, the type of game that makes the more money.

      • Dudewitbow
        2·
        2 months ago

        i mean its not like you cant go onto the mobile store and buy games like stardew valley or terraria. its just that pay to play games have taken a back seat due to the profitability of free to play games.