Its perfectly understandable why this happens but its a shame there is no way at all to play this game other than finding an old ipad that still has it installed where as old windows games still work fine.
“My favourite iOS game from when I was a kid”
I’m 40 and maybe this is the first time I feel really old on HN. Cheers!
I paid real money for that game, to boot.
Don't support DRM with your money if you care about this.
Depends on the game. For example, a lot of old Windows games run on Linux in Wine pretty well, despite not working even on Windows anymore.
Those don't exist anymore. The only games that get released now are "Free games that you pay to make less annoying, repeatedly".
There was a point around iOS8 where studios started scrambling to modify their games from the first category into the 2nd. So previously complete and balanced games like Civilization Revolution started getting new wonders and leaders that you could pay for (that the AI gets for free). Fortunately in that case, they released a completely separate Civ Rev 2 that was built with that crap from the ground up so they didn't need to finish ruining the first one.
But they certainly aren't about to release compatibility updates for those old games, so I keep an old iPad Air with a cracked screen around and carefully navigate the upgrade nag screen every single day to keep it safely on iOS8 so that the last handful of good mobile games remain playable.
One dead battery or mis-tap on the upgrade screen, and they'll be gone forever.
I too miss iOS games that I can't play anymore, like (most memorably) the Texas Hold 'Em game Apple itself made!
Of course, once I got a job as a developer I paid for everything (too much, really... my unplayed Steam collection keeps growing!)
I still love emulation tech, though