At this point, I think the way this will all end up (and would be fair) is for Apple’s payment system to remain, but you can choose to use another one. Apple’s take will probably fall in line (otherwise no one would use it).
I also kind of like the idea that something like that happens, except games all caps must use Apple‘s system and pay the 30%. That’s not as fair, but might be workable.
If I had my way over all of this? Do you know what I really want?
No consumable in-app purchases. Period. Outlawed.
One of my favorite things about the early iPhone was the incredible games that you could get. Now there’s almost none of them, the developers of practically abandoned the platform. The only ways to make money are ads and consumable in app purchases which are just complete scams. Like $1000 buckets of Smurfberries.
That’ll never happen. But I wish it would, because it would bring back the great games.
Check out GameClub, for those old great games. They buy the rights from developers that don’t want to continue, then do the maintenance for newer versions of iOS and Android.
I also kind of like the idea that something like that happens, except games all caps must use Apple‘s system and pay the 30%. That’s not as fair, but might be workable.
If I had my way over all of this? Do you know what I really want?
No consumable in-app purchases. Period. Outlawed.
One of my favorite things about the early iPhone was the incredible games that you could get. Now there’s almost none of them, the developers of practically abandoned the platform. The only ways to make money are ads and consumable in app purchases which are just complete scams. Like $1000 buckets of Smurfberries.
That’ll never happen. But I wish it would, because it would bring back the great games.