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The worst thing (for me) about this is that whenever I go to the Apple App store I get bombarded will all these "games" that just try to make my life actively worse.

I don't understand why they pollute their brand like that.

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That's the key!

The Play Store and the App Store do not even have a search filter for games without in-app purchases. I'm sure that is on purpose.

it would make sense to scrape the data, and create an alternative search engine with such filters imho...

The trouble is that sometimes in-app purchases means the game is a demo, and you use the in app purchase to buy the full game. There are good games that follow this model that you’ll miss out on if you filter out in app purchases.

Perhaps they would stop doing that if such a filter existed in the first place.

Good point. I get upset with Hulu because they won’t distinguish ad-supported titles in their apps.

Apple arcade seems to fulfill this function ( albeit subscription cost instead of in app purchases )

Usually paid games don’t have in-app purchases. This site is also helpful: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/

Because of the money. Games account for approximately 70 percent of the entire App Store’s revenue, and 98 percent of in-app purchase revenue. Apple is not very motivated to stop these practices because it makes them many billions of dollars.

I really like the concept of [Playpass](https://play.google.com/intl/en_au/about/play-pass/), for Android, it gives you a tonne of really good games that aren't pay to win, have offline support and are fun. I don't really play many games anymore, especially on mobile, but I found a few when I went away on holiday and wanted to play a few games here and there when travelling.

This is made by the company that gave us Warcraft III reforged. A money grab that made the game worse and ruined the already existing game. they have no goodwill.

It was very surprising how bad reforged was when brood war remake was excellent. Even Diablo 2 remake was great.

It's a huge chunk of their "services revenue". It's their dirty little secret.

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