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I wonder about iOS game preservation, I guess thats going to be a lot harder than old 8-bit games or PC games etc.

• egypturnash 7y ago
  It’s already happening, there’s a ton of games that aren’t on the App Store any more because their creators stopped paying a hundred bucks a year. A lot of them won’t work on newer versions of iOS even if you still have a copy.
  • smacktoward 7y ago
    Or they were written as 32-bit apps, which became verboten on iOS not long ago. I had a bunch of games I had paid for and enjoyed for a long time vanish suddenly because their creators didn't deem it worthwhile to go back and recompile them as 64-bit.
• mcphage 7y ago
  There's a few apps that I liked that were completely pulled—not just unable to be purchased, but also, you can't re-download them if you had already bought them. One got pulled because the developer was hired by Apple, and one got pulled because the developer was bought by Facebook. And certainly a whole ton more that just... don't exist anymore, so I can't see them to be reminded of them. Another thing that happens is apps that get steadily worse over time. Bad Piggies was one of the best iOS games I've ever played, but it got stuffed with obnoxious ads, and the experience of playing it is considerably worse than it was just after release.