"Now I am expected, along with Google's new program, to update all of my games every 2 years even if nothing is wrong with them. Protopop Games, a single-person developer, said in follow-up tweets: "I'm sitting here on a Friday night, working myself to bone after my day job, trying my best to scrape a living from my indie games, trying to keep up with Apple, Google, Unity, Xcode, MacOS changes that happen so fast my head spins. 7XNcLfiEcR- Protopop Games April 23, 2022 Console games from 2000 are still available for sale. It's part of their App improvement system. ![]() Apple just sent me an email saying they're removing my free game Motivoto because its more than 2 years old. We've reached out to Apple for comment on the reasoning behind the new policy. Apple's new policy could see swathes of classic games removed simply due to having been released years earlier. The complaints center around the fact that all games will eventually cease receiving updates as developers move on, but will plausibly remain functional from that point onwards. ![]() The game in question, Motivoto, was completed and therefore last updated three years ago in March 2019, but Apple told Protopop Games that "if no update is submitted within 30 days, the app will be removed from sale." On Twitter, Protopop Games (below) shared an email from Apple that said their app had not been updated in "a significant amount of time" and would therefore be deleted from the App Store.
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