Was there ever a mobile game you REALLY liked that was discontinued and rendered completely unplayable? For example, it can't function at all without connecting to a server which no longer exists.What's her name, /vmg/?
>>1773747I'm a zoomer so none of my games are dead yet, but I will lose my shit when this dies.
>>1773747king's raiddigimon rearisefinal fantasy opera omniaoffline clients need to start being the norm
Android games have some really strange availability issues. Most games become unavailable once their API (whatever that is) is no longer valid or whatever. Many devs update their old games on yearly basis for that API thing.>some games got delisted but I can reinstall them just fine (for now at least). For instance: I bought Inbento before it before it became a Crunchyroll exclusive, or the demo of Rotoforce I once grabbed still installs no problem>some games can't be reinstalled after removal: I can't no longer reinstall Militia or Warfare Inc., I even removed Bunibon just now to see if I can get it back - I can't>delisted paid games seem to be fine, but I avoid deleting my favorite dead games like Solar Settlers, just in case>some very old games work just fine without any recent updates - like Trapball>some games get pulled off the store by their devs rather than Google - like Part Time UFO - sadly I didn't buy it in time
>>1773747Pokemon Duel
>>1773859>Inbento's a crunchyroll exclusiveSo you have to be subscribed to get it like that netflix storyteller game?.Glad I bought it on my switch instead of android
>>1774482If you bought it on Android like I did, you can still install and play it normally. I just tried it. To be precise, there are two versions of the game. One is hosted by Crunchyroll and if you install it it tells you to get a subscription. The other is hosted by the dev Afterburn but it's delisted in the store and for me it's only accessible on the 'Manage apps & devices' panel, where it shows apps I uninstalled. I'm not sure I'll be able to get it if I change my phone, tho.
Most of the time I get bored and quit well before they hit that point.Stuck around to EoS for a few, though.
I had a blast with final fantasy brave exvius until they added neo visions. 7* units were already greedy but neo visions literally killed the game for me. I wish there was a playable offline version
>>1773747Yugioh BAM Pocket can still be played single-player since there's a few people who have shared their personal game data (which includes the progress too). But, it's kind of pointless not being able to measure dicks with your friends.
>>1773747konosuba fantastic days. i had all the wiz and mellisa outfits and they were great.
>>1780123>konosuba fantastic daysApparently the JP version works offline.
>>1773747moga galaxyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwaephchyU
>>1773747As much as I agree with the premise, the root issue is IP/copyright law and Stop Killing Games simply won't be able to attack that.
>>1787877>the root issue is IP/copyrightNo. The issue is false advertising and lack of transparency. The affected games are sold as a product (one time purchase), yet publishers treat them as a service.Sure, games might say "internet required", but this has some issues.1. "internet required" is a vague label. It might just mean "internet is required for in-app purchases, online multiplayer, game updates" while the game still works fine offline. ("Pokemon UNITE" and the PS4 version of "Awesomenauts" say "requires internet". Yet both are playable offline. Sure, it's against bots, but that's fine according to SKG)2. It doesn't solve the core issue, which is "I have internet (I match requirements on the game box), but I can't play the game because the servers no longer work. I'm not told when they'll no longer work.".The issue with live "service" games is that they never tell the customer when the service will end, so they're not really services.Some examples of a real service are:- A movie ticket - lasts one sitting of a movie.- A bus ticket - usually says "valid for the next 2 hours".- An amusement park ticket - usually says "valid only on this exact date".- A WoW or Netflix subscription - it tells you "you're subscribing for 30 days".Meanwhile, look at "Diablo 4".First of all, you might miss the small text at the bottom of their website which says "Internet connection required to play". And even if you see it, it doesn't actually tell you "this game is completely unplayable without internet". And even if it did say that, when you spend $60 on the game it doesn't tell you when the service will expire (when exactly servers will shut down). So, when you're "buying" this game you're basically gambling because you don't know if the game will become unplayable in a few weeks or months, or a few years.It's ultimately a consumer issue which is completely unrelated to IP laws and has nothing to do with them. It's all about planned obsolescence.
>>1787925>No. The issue is false advertising and lack of transparency. The affected games are sold as a product (one time purchase), yet publishers treat them as a service.Even if it's properly marketed as a service, people will still want to continue playing the game.This is a non-argument.And even if you say it's about planned obsolescence how do you propose that issue is resolved?
>>1773747Dragalia… Lost…
>>1773747>DeadByDaylight MobileI fkn hate that they did this, I even put some money in it thinking that they wouldn't kill it.I think that its possible to make all of these games work without needing "game servers"(you could just create your own server to play with your friends), the developers can do it.But probably because of the money and copyrights they prefer to just shut it down, the only hope I have is for some hacker mod the game to work without internet, its quite a hard work(even if you got the source code leaked, 100× times hard if you need to reverse engineer it), but not totally impossible, just that I don't think they can do it alone.
>>1788035>people will still want to continue playing the game. This is a non-argument.It was never my argument, you're just making shit up. There's no legal reason to make the game playable after the service ends if it's being provided as a service (monthly subscription, or advertised exact date when it will end). So, people can just cry about it.Even SKG people are saying the only argument to ensure these games are playable would be "game/media preservation".>planned obsolescence... how do you propose that issue is resolved?There's literally a dozen different solutions developers can take. Just off top of my head:>make an alternative offline mode (the MOBA games "Pokemon UNITE" and "Awesomenauts")>strip out any game elements which rely on the server to make the game playable offline, convert the save file to a local save file instead of remote database ("single player experience" and similar servers for WoW and RuneScape)>release the game server binary (Terraria, Minecraft, Left 4 Dead 2)>release the game server source code (Quake 3 Arena)>release documentation on how to reverse engineer the game server>etc.None of this requires 100% of the back-end logic to be there (over 90%+ of services or back-end logic can be cut out), nor does it require the game to have 1:1 feature parity with the live service version (just needs to be reasonably playable), nor does it require immediate action (this only needs to happen in the final patch of the game when the publisher shuts down the game), nor does it require relinquishing IP laws (random people wouldn't be able to legally make money off any of this nor represent themselves as the original/official publisher).And all of these only apply if a publisher sells the game as a good instead of a service. If you're distributing a game as a service, then you don't have to do anything.And if your business can't operate without maliciously fucking over the customer, then it shouldn't even exist.
>>1788363>tl;dri didn't know this tranny came here, not reading all this drivel
>>1773747king of figthers ALL STAR
>>1788367What are you even on about?
Space leaper: cocoon. it was so cool </3
I actually played pic related and it was a decently made rpg for the weak generation of mobile phones in 2014.It's dead now despite being a single player game.
>>1773747Terra Battle 1Opera Omnia
I have a game i cant play on newer androidsmy old 2014 phone still can run it, but I want to move it to the new onei need help
>>1798078Which game and which OS/Version?
Maybe I can port some game to another platform
Mobile games get killed off frequently. I check out this list occasionally and sometimes see stuff I used to play. https://minireview.io/dead-games
>>1773747There are some but I don't remember their names. One of them was an obscure Japanese gatcha game that was a combination of Puzzle&Dragons and Puzzle Bobble featuring giant women. Its translation was goofy (it was probably translated in Japan) but still I prefer goofy translations over butchered localizations. Gameplay wise it was great and with delicious waifus. But unfortunately nobody played it and as a result it rarely got updates and as a result it died quickly.
>>1803084Another great android phone game that nobody played and died quickly despite using one of the most popular video games franchises was Pac-Man Monsters.https://pacman.fandom.com/wiki/Pac-Man_MonstersIt was a great game that combined Puzzle&Dragons with Pac-Man and it had some nice designs for some of the characters. Without doubt one of the best Pac-Man spinoffs and in my opinion the best Pac-Man game for mobile phones. It deserves an offline premium release for consoles and Pc like Metal Slug Attack did.
>>1788086>Make an interesting gatcha game >Release it only in a few countries WHAT WERE THEY THINKING! Same shit with Miitomo, a huge wasted potential that deserves a second chance. But I doubt it will ever happen since Nintendo now has no soul.
>>1773747There's nothing that prevents mobile games from being preserved too, it has already been done in some EoS'd games like Destiny's Child where they patched the game and gave each user a code that launched into what their account had.
>>1788363Yes all of those solutions require softening of IP laws.If you were to do any of those things on your own, even if you don't make any money, the company could sue for damages. At best you're asking for an easement of their intellectual property.Requiring these things from the copyright holder when they do not want to would also infringe on their exclusive ownership of their intellectual property and/or copyright.
>>1801904>There was a Monument Valley 3I hope it's on steam at least,that game was comfy
>>1773747A few but many of them are too forgettable. The only game O really want to play but is delisted was motocross madness on the 360/xbone. Xbox had a lot if potential desu with their shelved ips.
Clash of clans old versions.B>>BAW GAWD WHAT WOULD I GIVE TO PLAY ON 2013 CLASH OF CLANS SERVERS ... or at least be able to single player it...Same with LEGO Star wars minigames on LEGO site... It's all just waiting for the heroes of the internet to repair them.
>>1787925>Tl;drJews
>>1815080Every .Single.Time.>You're not going to be able to produce good games yourself because you're of bad generation or you have no money.Nah, Notch made a game in a mancave with a box of scraps. Just make your own games.
>>1773833I fucking miss King's Raid so much...
>>1773747Lego Hero factory brain attack. It was a horde shooter game and I was so mad as a kid when it got nuked off my tablet
Queens Crowntop rpg made by com2us for iphonecan't play it at all these daysI liked it a lot
>>1774242That game was cool, i only played 2 months before eos :(and the private servers arent that active>>1776699It was fun at that time, weird format xd
>>1817844I played Duels at launch, and only got back into it right before eos
>>1773747I 100% completed Dr Mario world and am really sad about it
>>1773747yes it was essentially a mountand blade demake with unique gold to stat rpg mechanics, it doesnt exist anymore i tried looking it up couldnt find it. no p2w no micro transactions, the dev was japanese and he did a good job at translation and even managing to make progression fun, there wasnt an end game it was just conqure all the territory and get an army going, the fighting was actually p resonsive but like auto and kite, there wasnt a whole lot of different maps but it was understandable, played it back in like 2016
>>1773747Tagatame no Alchemist basically Final Fantasy Tactics with energy/stamina that recharges 1 unit per minute, so it gives you the freedom to do as you please and gave generic character shard, generic weapon shard, etc. so you just needed to pull for 1 collab unit and it wouldn't turn into a doll for display, the game was very generous with the generic shards as well, you could spend freemium currency on a specific gacha to get even more freemium currency guaranteed suck it PGRR.I.P. WotV FF BEThere's also Phantom of the Kill 3D Fire Emblem which had collabs with the whole spectrum of magical girls, from your Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura to Madoka
Photokatsu definitely.I learned about it too late but the songs were fire and my girl Sakura got a second PR.Other than that,the Yuuki Yuuna mobage.Objectively it wasn't that good but I got invested in the plot.it got a console port at least.Magia Record,it was a mess but it had cool ideas.
yokai watch wibble wobble was great
>>1773747EzPzRPG. Loved that shit. Server went down in like 2017 or 18 I think
Clash mini, I spent shitton of time on it and even got to a "competive" finishing no 15 in the world all time highServers shut down 1.5 years ago but devs said "clash mini is not dead and will comeback as a game mode in clash royale" which they did actually implement but its so different that I can't name a single this that this new game mode has in common with clash mini
>>1773747Zenonia 3, amazing little game especially for its time. Very fun skills and builds for all classes had a blast while playing it.
I remember there was this website centered around hosting apk/obb of "old school" android games that got delisted, you know, stuff like the the actual original NOVA, Modern Combat, Spiderman, Zenonia, etcAnyone has the link?
>>1773747All the Crash Bandicoot mobile games. I used to play them on an old iPod touch.Now that Mario Kart Tour is in maintenance mode, the market is ripe for a mobile racer without gacha ripoffs. Save us Crash!
>>1773747Final Fantasy Airship Brigade. I got in shit at work so many times for no-lifing that fucking thing. Gutted when square stabbed me in the back.
Katamari keep on rolling or whatever it was called
>>1774242The game's death lead Ishikawa to the TCG mines and not a character designer lead in the main games.It's not fair bros
>>1839130You can always just play CTR in an emulator. No racing game has topped it yet.>iPodI assume there are emulators which can be sideloaded to this. If not, there is a web browser-based PS1 emulator but it doesn't support upscaling afaik.
>>1773747War Pirates. it was this shitty little naval/pirate themed autobattler published by Sega a decade ago, but I loved the character designs and aesthetic.Brave Frontier and Alchemist Code, which were Gumi's precursors to FF Brave Exvius and FF War of the Visions, respectively. I especially liked Alchemist Code and was devastated when it EoS'dAnd of course, Dragalia Lost, which was probably my favorite mobilegarbage I ever played, and I stopped playing gachas entirely after that EoS'd because I couldn't take it anymore.
>>1816556Apparently it's coming back under a new company, PC/Steam client, and without some of the final patches that burned the game to the ground. No account carry over though. So if you whaled previously you better REALLY miss it because you'll need to start over.
>>1788086>>1803159>>1859124>Dragalia LostYou can host your own private server for this right now, or join a public one. So it's not entirely dead.
>>1859746I'd only play if they updated the graphics and relaxed the gear system. It looked great for its time but nowadays it'd look really outdated especially on a big PC screen. Gear is self explanatory.
never played it but wish I could've played Makai wars
>>1773747Battle Nations.
NiER:Re[in]carnation.I actually now struggle to believe it ever existed. The YouTube videos could well be fake.
Final fantasy mobius and the flipper pinball one
>>1774964i loved the game but got overwhelmed after a 7month break in jail. could never catch up after another year off and then decided i wanted to figure out the best teams with the untold 5star and thhe newer summon chars i had sat there and then saw thhe game wasn’t available for download. furious because i started playing on the cake event around the second month in after release and gave facebook my id as they were trying to delete my account which would have made me lose my ffbe account. had over 20k lapis too, furious.
>>1788035you cunts will own nothing and be happy and drag the rest of us down with you. you deserve nothing but hell
>>1828572came in here to say zenonia, especially 3. i miss it so bad oh my god it was fun
>>1859746I did whale up until the whole Soul Weapon nonsense, I'd be fine playing f2p this time though. I just want to grind BD with my waifus again...
nothing to see here
This one
>>1773747lapis re:lights
War of the Visions actually had some really good gameplay when it bothered to make you play it, and the story was getting really interesting when I quit. I dream of somehow getting the files and turning it into a single player game someday
Black Survival.
Guitar Girl will EoS at the end of the year, a shame but It was going to happen someday, the game wasnt being updated for some years,A game that I discovered after it died and I still want to try is Hachigatsu no Cinderella 9, it's a chibi png baseball game with all HS girls, there's an online version avalaible but you can only play it if you had an account and spent money on the game before it died
>>1902785I meant offline version
>>1773747DFFOO Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia obviously. Maxed quite a few things.I literally moved to a different country where DFFOO was unavailable, and when I figured out how to play again, it went EOS. Wtf.
>>1798078>I have a game i cant play on newer androids>my old 2014 phone still can run it, but I want to move it to the new oneJust to be clear, OP is not talking about games that don't work on newer operating systems than those they were released on. He's talking about games you can't play anymore *at all* because the game was built with a central server connection as a hard requirement and the publisher simply pulled the plug.In other words, the problem is not that the SNES can't play NES cartridges, the problem is that every NES cartridge in existence got destroyed and nobody can ever play any NES game anymore.
>>1808312>Yes all of those solutions require softening of IP laws.No, they do not. They just require a consumer protection law (whether existing or new) addressing this issue to be enforced.>If you were to do any of those things on your own, even if you don't make any money, the company could sue for damages.What damages? There are plenty of games out there where people host their own multiplayer servers with rotating horsecock gifs in them. There can be no reasonable expectation for compensation for damages, as long as the game is intentionally designed to facilitate self-hosting of servers (which is one of the solutions SKG proposes) and as long as the server cannot be reasonably mistaken to be official, such as through the use of a disclaimer saying something like: "fy_horsecock is not created, run by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Valve Corporation in any way", or even the publisher itself adding a notice saying "This game is out of official support. Valve Corporation is not responsible for the content of any server you might connect to or any way that it might affect your Sofware, your Hardware, or your Life".>At best you're asking for an easement of their intellectual property.I'm asking to be able to retain ownership of my copy of the game indefinitely, if at the time of purchase I'm not given a clear date as to when the game would cease to be playable, so I can make an informed purchase decision. If the industry is dead set on retaining their ability to kill games they create, then they would either have to have the expiry date communicated at the time of purchase, or switch to a subscription model. SKG is hoping that the former approach won't be as popular due to stigma and the latter approach due to limited subscription budgets, but the regular consumer has demonstrated apathy towards the issue and subscriptions are becoming pretty much the standard way to pay for things. Cloud gaming platforms could also circumvent the issue entirely.
>>1808428Looks like they brought it back in November.
>>1773747Super Mecha Championship. RIP.The only mobile game I ever spent real money on.
>>1773747capcom are the only ones that care
>>1950266To date I think they're the only example of a company to go through the trouble to make an online game offline compatible at the end of it's service. That really should be industry standard.
>>1773747Star Wars Force Collection was cool I remember you could sell your cards on EBay
>>1959456nintendo did this with that animal crossing app
>>1959723This, though I completely forgot about it until now
>>1773747Dragon quest i forget the name that was fun I had my FF1 sword and was hoping wed get the godzilla crossover but nope....
>>1773747I never got to play Fellow Moon and I wanted to so much, Really hope they make an offline version.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUU6Sfo_akghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_izWvJm624k
>>1773747Tomadachi lifeFuckin' best shitpost machine I ever had.
EZPZRPGMiss that shit.
>>1773747Idolmaster CGToji no MikoPirate MaidensNot a mobile game but Onigiri on xbone.
>>1964447You mean Miitomo? Or was there a TL for mobile?
>>1798078When you try to install it on the new phone does it say something like "target sdk" ? If yes then get apktool and recompile it then I think the manifest file will have something that said sdk in it and you can change that to the number your new phone is looking for. That should get it to at least install but it might still be unplayable and to fix that youd have to edit some of the code. Im just going of of memory so you might have to look up what to do but I know its possible to change the sdk version
>>1927749>expiry date communicated at the time of purchaseI can sense problems with that. Is there a minimum support period? Is there a penalty for supporting the game *longer* than the minimum? What if the publisher says "this game will be out of support 12 months after the release date" (e.g. the mandated minimum) but then chooses to continue the service past that point, for as long as they feel like continuing it? At that point, the law wouldn't really change the current practices, since the expiry date wouldn't be enforced and would be seen as largely meaningless.
I have a few apps on my 9 year old phone that seem to be gone from the google play store, can I do anything to share them (without getting in trouble)?>dark echo>armory & machine (first game)>merge party
Order and Chaos...it's a WoW clone for mobile. Some people have an early build of the game on discord that's playable but there are no servers up.
Died over a decade agoThis was the last time I put money in a gacha game until umamusume
>>1773747Starly girls. Which was a kancolle ripoff with mechs and pilots. It was extremly hardcore for a gatcha game and died after 2years. By hardcore it had permadeath. You could get your cute girl pilot killed have a legit funeral cutscene then wash the guts out of the mech put a replacement in and send her out to get killed. The risk made the game fun. And very unfrendly to causals. It had pvp that wasnt whale dominated you could rank high as f2p. Cause you couldnt straight up buy power. You paid for mechs and equipment but you had to actually raise your pilots from scratch. You stick a rookie in a high rarity mech with god tier guns and she whould get wasted by an experinced pilot in a mid tier shitbox. You had to earn it and rookies pliots were dying all the damn time. Mechs had customizable loadouts in a way that most games dont let you do. You had true freedom. You want to stick sniper riles on a point blank fighter go nuts. Early on it was supposedly successful enough there was supposed to be an anime and real video game version. These got canceled.I miss it.
>>1995391To add on the gameplay was mostly watching fight where it wasnt pure autobattle but more that you gave suggestions that your squad might follow or ignore how good they were at listening depended on pilot level.. The was no oh just level them up with exp items and coins. You had to make them fight to level the risk was real.getting a god pilot was multiple months. Though getting not cannon fodder who wasnt at real risk of dying was maybe a week. You could pick fights or think oh shit somebody might die we should retreat. Or we are so close lets risk it. Then you quit the mission. Your desicions had weight.
>>1773747World Flipper. That was unique. Wish more games dared being games like that.
>>1773747Unhappy Raccoon
>>1993695bump
I miss you The Rhythm of Fighters...
>>1773747>Was there ever a mobile game you REALLY liked that was discontinued and rendered completely unplayable?I liked the Star Ocean gacha game. Anamnesis i believe was the subtitle. Went EOS ages ago, doesn't exist in any capacity now.
Did anyone here get a chance to play Cosmos Rings? I played the Chaos Rings series recently on Vita but Cosmos Rings was delisted ages ago without any trace of its story left behind.
This one. It was called BitBattle made by Human Pride Games. I used to play it on the family tablet with my brother (game had local multiplayer, no online). The gameplay was quite alright, but back then it was the most fun I could ever have on the planet. The soundtrack was banging, made solely out of chiptune tracks, I still listen to them to this day. The best part - the game had no microtransactions or even ads, it was 100% free.Somewhere in the late 2010's, the game became unavailable on the Google Play store. I still have an .apk file downloaded from Aptoide on my phone, although I'm not sure if it's still available there. Human Pride Games' website is still up btw, you can look at more screenshots there.I look back at this game as a reminder of what could've been. Nowadays the mobile market is flooded with low quality shovelware slop and gacha games. I fucking hate it so much. No wonder mobile gaming is regarded as the lowest form of gaming.
>>1773747I really like KH Union Cross. The medal combat system was fun and gave me CoM lite vibes plus the art style grew on me. I just hated how low the drop rates were and how scummy square is with purchases 20 bucks for basically one pull.
>>1993695You can export the apk files using adb, or with something like: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ammar.sharing/But check if those games were archived on APKPure. Dark Echo (version 1.3.2) is already there.
>>2051678thanks for the reply, looks like those 3 apps I have are already on the platform, so I don't need to do anything
I used to play Pocket Fantasy before it went to nutaku. It had a different name, and I don't remember well, but it did gave sexy pokemon girl vibes. I remember Cecete reminded me of Rattata.I also liked Fighting Bellonas before it went to nutaku. It had some strategic depth, with fights ending before dropping enemies hp to 0, at which point they'd run and you could chase, but it could be into a trap. I never got to explore this mechanic as much as I'd want, since it disappeared from playstore fast after I downlaoded, and then appeared on nutaku and also disappeared fast.And speaking of that, there was another cute dungeon crawler (first person, really cool) that also died on playstore before dying again on nutaku.Coomers don't care about deep gameplay, if you pull an ecchi game from the playstore to add nudity in hopes of selling on nutaku, it won't work! Stop trying!
I lost a ton of old games when mobile phones forced everyone to update to 64bit appsGod there were so many fun little apps I used to play in the early 2010s that got me through high school.
Apparently Brave Exvius is getting a remake as an actual non-gacha game. Hopefully if this does well, they'll remake Opera Omnia as it's own game next and finish the story and add Rikku
Saekano visual novel/alarm appI paid for all costume too
>>1773747Love Live: SIF. But I think that it had some offline gameplay?Bonus points for that fucking global premiere of the sequel. Literal annoucement of global along with announcement of it's EoS month later. The three or so dedicated LL! fans that were still alive died on the spot due to bullshit flooding their brains.
>>2057638The Link! Live! Love Live! is also going EoS due to developer announcing bankruptcy.Also before Miracle Live there was OG LL! SiF and LL! SIFAS that were killed to attract people to Miracle Live.So LL! fans got fucked in the ass four times already. Jesus Christ.
Haven't played the android Shiren games besides the port of Tsukikage Mura no Kaibutsu for Android that's both unlisted and incompatible with most modern devices. I'm sure some dude must have them somewhere... at least the one that was on the store, the mobage one might as well be lost media
>>1774964Did you find out about Final Fantasy: Resonance? They're taking Season 1's story and turning it into a full RPG
BARCODE KANOJO BRING BACK MY WIVES
>>2052990You can still run 32bit Android apks through compatibility layers and emulators.
>>1776699there was duel generation or whatever name it was. It was a solid f2p yugioh but of course lacked "proper" microtransaction. I liked to play it for the single player part.
>>1773747>Have Angry Birds Rio on my account because either I or someone else downloaded it once in 2013>Discontinued in 2019 because Rovio hates its fans and the license was about to run out>Downloaded game to play it because one day I remembered the movie>Cannot purchase Mighty Eagle so I can only get his feather scores in the playground (tutorial) levels>Even if Rio 3 happens Angry Birds acknowledging Rio again will probably never happenI still remember that one time in like 2012 where you could change your DNS and it would give you unlimited free in-app purchases.
I vaguely remember one trivia game that had card collecting mechanics in it, kind of like... I dunno, those candy crush lookalikes, but instead of connecting candies, you had a team of monsters and for every correct question answered you did an attack, depending on how much you got on a row you did a combowas kinda fun, a shame it was discontinued.
>>2119889I still remember being obsessed with Battle Bears, does Battle Bears Gold still work?
I'm gonna miss when Golden Tee Mobile gets shut down. Easy Come Easy Golf luckily made it's way to switch so that'll be preserved.
I miss Outernauts like you wouldn't believe.It was Insomniac Games' take on a Facebook game. It was a pokemon clone in space with a hub system where you'd fly to stages, battled/caught monsters, leveled them, evolved them. It had a really cool breeding system and the game's atmosphere was that of a silly space superhero thing. Pretty sure it was inspired by Captain Quark from R&C.
World Flipper and Full Boko Heroes.>>1818669God I miss this one.>>2006643This one and RuinWalker got shut down before I even realized they were out. Such a shame. Would've ripped the art assets from the latter if I had known.
>>1773747Final Fantasy Mobius, because I want to beat every FF game and it annoys me that there's a story based FF game I can never play
>>1817844where can I find the private server? I actually went to the trouble to save Duel's client just incase someday someone needed it for a private server
>>1959456SNK did this with Metal Slug Attack I think. On Steam it even has online multiplayer
Elder Scrolls LegendsWar of WordsPoker PalsNinja JumpFirst time visiting this board, looking for recs. I still haven’t gotten over the death of Elder Scrolls Legends
Terra Battle has an offline patch nowhttps://github.com/anzensan/project-liminal-gate
>>1801904>This is how I find the WitchSpring games were pulled from the store back in JuneWhat the fuckThose aren't even online games
>>2130575>Those aren't even online gamesSometimes it's devs who pull the games off if they don't sell well and sometimes Google removes discontinued games for not having updated API or whatever. Keeping these games working on all devices and Android versions apparently requires periodic maintenance, so if the devs can't be bothered or literally die, it could happen to any game.Also, I just checked the link myself and found a couple dozen games I played or knew about - all dead. Looks like a big purge these last three months especially.
>>2130575And yeah, the site says these Witchspring games haven't been updated in years. Didn't sell super well, either.
I remember getting the Android versions of Grim Fandango and Machinarium on Humble Bundle. I didn't bother to install them until years later. One of them couldn't run anymore because of compatibility issues, the other had to connect to some server that's dead.
>>2099235What do you use for 32-bit apps?
I was thinking of installing AltStore, is there an app there that allows for in-app purchases?I just want to unlock Mighty Eagle in Angry Birds since the servers shut down.
>>1787925how fucking dense do you have to be to comprehend>Internet connection required to playas anything other than >this game is completely unplayable without internetmaybe you should learn english before you spew your esl sewage
>>1787877skg seems like an industry plant to preserve copyright law exactly as it isthey have explicitly stated NOT to want to change anything about intellectual property laws, despite it being the sole reason for this status quo
>>2153107How fucking dense do you have to be to not even comprehend the post you're replying to?"internet required" does NOT in fact mean "this game is completely unplayable without internet".1. The example of Awesomenauts being playable offlineThe label is misleading as the game is playable offline. Some games are even playable with offline split-screen despite having the label. So the label only causes confusion and normalizes the though process of "internet is only required for SOME parts of the game", since that is clearly the case for some games.2. The example of "servers are shut down"In this case the label means nothing. I HAVE an internet connection, yet the game is completely unplayable. The label is thus useless and tells me nothing.
>>2154924look up what required means in a dictionary retard
>>21549461. Why are you telling me to look it up, when the publishers are misusing the word?2. See the 2nd point in the message you're replying to.
>>2155004it simply stipulates the terms of the contract just because youre a retard that doesnt understand basic meanings of words doesnt mean the law acknowledges your retardation
>>2155064See >>2154924
>>2155073how retarded and narcissistic do you have to be for me to accept your blatant attempt at moving goalposts by arguing against something i never wrote or argued forlet me spell it out for you, my argument is simple>required means required and nothing else
>>2155093See >>2154924 >>1787925
>>2155099when were you diagnosed with schizophrenia?
>>2155103You still haven't answered anything retard.1. If a label says "internet connection is required", then why does that label appear in games which do not require it? Your statement of "this game is completely unplayable without internet" is provably false since there's countless of games WITH the label that ARE PLAYABLE without an internet connection.2. If a label says "internet connection is required" and the user has an internet connection, why is a game like "The Crew" no longer playable? The customer is satisfying the requirement of having an internet connection, yet the game is not playable.If your argument is "but that's only one small part and the EULA is there", you don't even see the EULA until AFTER you've purchased a physical copy of a game. You "sign" a EULA only after you've already installed the game. A game store selling you the game doesn't give you the EULA papers, neither are they there on the box.
>>2155110because you can always deviate from a contract as long as its strictly in favour of the other party none of this changes the definition of requiredrest is entirely irrelevant to my argument, stop moving the goalposts retardtry reading what i actually wrote
>>2155117>none of this changes the definition of requiredIt does for the customer, hence why "required" is a misnomer.
>>2155118your incredulity is not my concernthere is no doubt about the definition of "Internet connection required"you can only argue about how big this should be printed on the box
>>2155122>there is no doubt about the definition of "Internet connection required"There clearly is. Anyone can put the label onto the box for no reason at all, making the label completely devoid of meaning.
>>2155123i have exhausted my argument, my position is crystalisedsince you are still in disbelief, heres chatgpt for you to explain my final argument:>"Your incredulity is not my concern"Translation: "Your personal frustration with how games work in practice doesn't change the legal reality of what you agreed to." The user's disbelief that a game with this label might work offline—or stop working entirely when servers die—is emotionally valid, but legally irrelevant.> "There is no doubt about the definition of 'Internet connection required'"Translation: "The contract term is unambiguous." In legal terms, "required" creates a clear, enforceable condition precedent. Whether a publisher strictly enforces it at all times or fails to maintain the backend later, the clause itself is plain language that puts the buyer on notice. >"You can only argue about how big this should be printed on the box"Translation: "The only valid consumer rights argument you have left is prominence of disclosure, not the definition of the words." Under contract and advertising law, if a term is clear, you cannot sue a company by claiming you misunderstood basic English. Your only legal recourse as a consumer is arguing clear and conspicuous disclosure—that the warning wasn't visible enough before you bought it (e.g., hidden in micro-print on the back of the box).
>>2155128>companies can write blatant lies on the products and that's fine>I can't comprehend what's being talked about so I'll use ChatGPT to try to make my "arguments" more "credible"Let me guess, you're American?
