Personally unclear how much less predatory the shift to subscriptions for trivial feature unlocks is than loot boxes...
They have a “one time payment” option. But I thought that’s what I already bought from the App Store when I bought it a couple years ago. I guess not. My totally fine, currently working version (v5) will probably randomly stop working at some point in the future and I’ll lose all my notes, because I suppose breaking totally working software is good business.
Wtf.
There are publishers that drop reskin after reskin of the same game all with individual subscriptions, and they constantly try to kids from one into the other.
Then others clone that game and do the same thing. Fluvsies is an App Store virus.
Apple sucks for their monopoly tactics, but it's very hard for me to have any sympathy for the rest of the mobile ecosystem. It's probably the most exploitative toxic software ecosystem.
As an extreme example, if some company found a way to charge me $100 every day or my head would explode, that obviously is worth $100 to most of us. However, I'm currently not having to pay any company to prevent my head from exploding, so maybe that's just not something I should have to pay for.
Contrast this with Steam, where search is better and the top result is not your competitor squatting your product name.
