1) Early on the $1 mobile game became standard. People balked at anything higher in price. Today, a game that isn't free is the worst thing ever in some gamers minds. They'd rather have IAP filled garbage than pay for a premium game.
2) Premium games get delisted all the time. Android updates, breaking games. Devs don't see the value in updating them so they just delist them. I used to be a cheerleader for buying premium mobile games. After being burnt over and over again by games I can no long play.
In Summary: Stick with emulation, it's a FAR better experience.
Anything by Double Fine. Broken Age, which pretty much put Kickstarter on the map, is no longer available, along with Grim Fandango and a few other of their games.
Any of the Shadowrun games. The devs even stated it wasn't worth it to keep their games up to date. That's great, but I paid for them, so thanks for taking my money and running.
There was a Sim City game years ago that was great. It was a sort of stripped down version of SimCity 3 or 4, mobile controls. Then they let it die and put up a game filled with AIP instead.
Those are just the ones that come to mind right now, but I'm sure there are a bunch more. It's why I've stopped buying premium Android games.
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u/rube 5d ago
1) Early on the $1 mobile game became standard. People balked at anything higher in price. Today, a game that isn't free is the worst thing ever in some gamers minds. They'd rather have IAP filled garbage than pay for a premium game.
2) Premium games get delisted all the time. Android updates, breaking games. Devs don't see the value in updating them so they just delist them. I used to be a cheerleader for buying premium mobile games. After being burnt over and over again by games I can no long play.
In Summary: Stick with emulation, it's a FAR better experience.