A number of developers have said they are concerned about the future of Apple Arcade, with one person stating there is “the smell of death” around the mobile game subscription service.
A source told mobilegamer.biz that Apple had “cancelled a shitload of projects and pissed off a lot of people” following a ‘reboot’ of the subscription in 2021. Other sources, meanwhile, said the company had been steadily cutting developer payouts and upfront fees over recent years.
“We’re going to see that amount and decrease and decrease and decrease until it’s pennies,” one developer told the publication. “At that point putting a game on Arcade starts to become much less viable.” Reportedly, when Apple Arcade launched in 2019, it was a different story, with “very generous” upfront and per-play payments.
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