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Indie Developers Claim Apple Is Removing Their Games From App Store

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Published 16:18 24 Apr 2022 GMT+1

Indie Developers Claim Apple Is Removing Their Games From App Store

Apple are removing "outdated" games in a bid to try and tidy up the App Store. The move is affecting Indie developers.

Kate Harrold

Kate Harrold

Apple is currently in the midst of tidying up its App Store. The company hopes to make the store easier to navigate yet in doing so, it’s managed to alienate and upset a ton of indie developers by removing their games from the store.

As discovered by VGC, Apple’s developer support site reads, “We are implementing an ongoing process of evaluating apps, removing apps that no longer function as intended, don’t follow current review guidelines, or are outdated.” The criteria seems to disproportionately affect independent developers who have received app removal notices from Apple in recent days.

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Protopop Games, whose titles include Wilderless and Nimian Legends: BrightRidge, are just one of the developers expressing their dismay. In response to the move from Apple, they tweeted, “I feel sick. Apple just sent me an email saying they're removing my free game Motivoto because it's more than two years old. It's part of their App improvement system.” 

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The dev went on to say, “This is not cool. Console games from 2000 are still available for sale. This is an unfair barrier to indie devs.” It’s not yet known exactly what qualifies an app as being “outdated” according to Apple’s definition. Motivoto has not been updated in two years but remains perfectly playable on today’s iOS system.

Attached to Protopop Games’ tweet was the letter sent to them by Apple. It read, “This app has not been updated in a significant amount of time and is scheduled to be removed from sale in 30 days. No action is required for the app to remain available to users who have already downloaded the app.”

It looks like Apple is taking a ruthless approach and we could continue to see indie games affected. Bad move Apple.

Featured Image Credit: Apple, Meme

Topics: Mobile Games, Indie Games

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