Apple recently updated the App Store to allow for game ⛦streaming services—but there's a pretty major catch, one that Microsoft is already callin♎g, "."
Game streaming services like Microsoft's xCloud and Google's Stadia are promising to be the future of gaming. No longer will you have to download games to play them. Instead,🌼 these services hold the games off-site and will allow you to play anytime, anywhere, on any device.
At least, xCloud will give you that capability. Microsoft has been pushing hard to get its services into 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:as many hands as it possibly can, including iOS users.
The will allow game streaming services—like xCloud—to have an app with a catalog of titles, but each game will need to have its own app. To put it di♕fferently, imagine logging in to Netflix and—any time you want to watch anything—you have to download a separate app to actually watch your show. This is allegedly done so that each game will have Apple user ratings and reviews, appear in Apple charts and searches, and can be managed with Apple parental control apps. It doesn't hurt, however, that by submitting games this way, Apple will also get a 30% cut of all in-app purchases. You can see the full changes below.
A Microsoft spokesperson , "This remains a bad experience for customers. Gamers want to jump𒁏 directly into a game from their curated catalog within one app just like they do with movies or songs, and not be forced 🐟to download over 100 apps to play individual games from the cloud. We're committed to putting gamers at the center of everything we do, and providing a great experience is core to that mission."
All of this comes in the midst of Apple's major legal battle with Epic Games 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:over its in-app purchasing policies. Things just aren't looking good for gaming on Apple devices. Apple's biggest moneymaker on the app store is the gaming category, which is likely why they ❀want to protect their 30% cut of everything spent on games through iOS. When compared to other streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, though, the decision just doesn't make sense from a consumer standpoint.
Time will tell if Apple will voluntarily relent, if it will be forced to allow third-party payments, or if A𝄹pple will continue to refuse to allow functioning game streaming services to exist on its devices that it doesn't own.
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