Hi everyone! I was recently cleaning up my phone and noticed that most of the games I still enjoy are older ones that I paid for once and never had to worry about again. But when I tried to find something similar in the app store, everything was full of ads or in-app purchases. I found this article: https://www.jedinews.com/misc/articles/why-pay-once-mobile-games-are-vanishing/, and it explains why this model is fading away. It really made me think about how much the mobile gaming space has changed. Do you still look for pay-once games, or have you gotten used to the new system?
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Just came across this discussion and it’s quite interesting. Even outside of gaming, you can see similar trends where services move from one-time payments to subscriptions or ongoing purchases. It seems like that’s just how digital products evolve over time. Makes you wonder what the next shift will look like and how users will adapt to it.