Honkai star rail is overrated
Anyone else remember the days of browsing the App Store, especially the free top 100? Checking to see what new apps were hitting the charts. Having pages and pages of mostly useless apps but some real memorable glorified flash games were thrown into the mix. Never having to worry about anything except how much fun will this game be compared to the other.
Good times…good times… I haven’t browsed the App Store like that in probably a decade. I miss those days.
Pepperidge Farm Remembers
This is what capitalism does to creativity.
Lmao go back to /r/antiwork bud
It’s economics my friend; I would go back to the Econ sub, but it’s trash here. You make apps, right, then you try to find ways to monetize them, cut costs, maximize profits and you end up with poor quality. I suggest you go back to r/Idontknowshitabouteconomics. Capitalism stifles creativity due to profit maximization and market dynamics.
Omg it’s not only me???
The best app I’ve seen was a lightsaber one that made sound when you swung your phone lol
Ehhhh most of the “free top 100” still had ads
What I feel like doesn’t exist anymore is the ability to pay like $0.99 for an app like “Jelly Car” and have it hold or collective attention for months. Phone games evolved and we didn’t know how good we had it.
True, but I feel like back then an app with ads just had a banner at the bottom or something. Now “ads” means a full screen unskippable video every few minutes. No thanks.
New app, 0.99 for life days
2023: Subscribe for $5.99 a month!
Lifetime access still exists, but they want like $50+ lol
That sounds very reasonable
I wonder what will be the evolution of the Subscription based Model in 10 yrs time ?
That was peak Appstore. Its all trash and scam apps now.
iSoda, gun apps, sound buttons
The novelty apps were the bomb back in 2010.
I do. Fond memories of downloading new apps and toys every day. Sadly those days are long long gone.
I remember finding all sorts of cool, creative games since none of the big publishers were interested in the nascent App Store.
Then some smaller publishers started porting older, well known games.
Then big publishers started porting their older games.
Then some really good more recent games like Grand Theft Auto and BioShock started to appear. There were still cool indie games, but little by little I noticed games were free and wanted me to buy chests and boxes of loot to keep playing.
Then the games I liked and paid for once disappeared when iOS went 64bit and games weren’t updated. There were more games than ever, but they were either free to play or I paid for them but they were hardly updated and then an iOS update broken them.
Then I started seeing cool games again, but I need Netflix or some other subscription service to play them.
So now I just play games on my Switch.
Not sure what you mean. You can still do all that today.
Don’t forget the endless AI scheiss
It’s a real shame they didn’t give iPhone app of the year to Flighty in the end. Alltrails looks cool but Flighty is incredibly useful, to the point that I really can’t imagine travelling without it anymore
Maybe I need to give it a second look. I’ve been using kayak for many years. I didn’t see what flighty offered that kayak wasn’t already doing.
I was surprised by that as well. Alltrail just seems like another exercise app that doesn’t seem to have anything over other similar apps.
I think Flighty looks amazing, but I wonder in what way you use it that makes it hard to imagine to travel without it.
Flighty actually took full advantage of Dynamic Island, widgets, and Live Activities early on in some innovative ways. Even their design & interface followed Apple’s guidelines to the T. I get AllTrails is a little more original and fosters more community, but Flighty is the perfect example of an app done right. 10/10 implementation.
Flighty is amazing. I was at ATL when they changed the plane and gate on us due to mechanical issues. You saw the dozen people with Flighty because we all got notifications at the same time and headed to the new gate before Delta had told anyone.
Okay so AllTrails is actually really cool. Not sure it’s that fantastic as an app but as a service / utility it’s great for finding and logging walks or hikes. And it’s still got decent functionality without paying for it.
All trails is good, IMO Gaia GPS is better
I think I tried it but they don’t have specific trails mapped for easy discovery do they? And the community on AllTrails kinda works well for it. Could be region-specific too but it’s good in the UK at least.
Too bad Gaia got bought by outside and will surely be ruined over time
Subscription Store
I’m kinda pleasantly surprised AllTrails won. I love the app so much for hikes and runs so glad it gets its laurels :)
Shoutout to Honkai Star Rail. Never thought I could get into mobile gaming, but HSR proved me wrong. It’s quickly become my most played game the past few months. Play it more than my Xbox series x, steam deck, switch, and steam library
I’ve got that fed up of waiting for Apple to put any decent games on App Store or arcade I’ve just ordered a steam deck.
I recently deleted AllTrails when I tried to filter the results by distance and it wanted me to pay a monthly subscription for that privilege. Sorry, if you’re gating basic functionality behind a paywall I’m not interested. A paid membership should offer tailored services.
Still kinda boggles my mind that Unpacking got a cultural impact award.
Best based on what?
Income for apple?
User reviews?
Genuine quality?
New tech?
Reasons.
Honkai star rail well deserved game of the year
Really good game
*money sink
How so ?
My guy it is a gacha game you either waste your time on it or pay
Yes it a gacha game but you aren’t force pull ^^
F2p vegan crossfit E6E5 Seele main btw /s
I fucking love it tbh, played every day since it came out. Hoyo knows what they are doing
Of course a game with $100 in-app purchases is on the list. Disgusting.
I didn’t know people still use the App Store.
So, people don’t use third-party apps anymore? Doubtful.
As opposed to?
what? there are almost 2 billion iPhones out there, how are we supposed to download and update apps? you’re tripping dude
Lost in Play, Lies of P and Honkai Star Rail are the only non-subscription apps, and the last one has IAPs up to $100. The best apps and games on the shittiest app store.
Starrail is a gacha game tho
*best apps and games for us to make money
Star rail is actually a quite polished game I wasn’t surprised it hit #1
Those IAPs look gacha as fuck.
They are, but they’re completely optional and you don’t need to make any purchases to progress through the entirety of the game content. Plenty of people are pure F2P players.
I don’t play it because I mostly quit gacha a few years ago, but Mihoyo really are the best at making really nice looking mobile games.
For anyone searching for a strong puzzle game, one time payment and no IAP, please support Loco Looper: https://www.locolooper.com/
I am not the dev, but I wish people supported smaller studios who actually put out quality apps on mobile without riddling them with ads or subscription mechanics.
I recommend Automatoys. Download full game and unlock entire thing with 1 iap. Its really sad seeing all the reviews dogging on it for “scamming them”… because it wasnt entirely free.
People just expect free games now. Even if it means its grindy as fuck, with tons of ads and IAP. People just want free.