Game maker Rovio is so annoyed that it may be missing out on profits to be made with newer games that it will remove Angry Birds from the Android store. Rovio believes that people are downloading the older free version of its game which is detracting from players downloading their newer games with in-app purchases. In a statement Rovio said: "Rovio Classics: Angry Bird will remain playable on devices on which the game has been downloaded, even after it has been unlisted".
Rovio isn't the only developer pulling mobile games from storefronts. Recently, EA cancelled two mobile games, an in-development Battlefield game and the already-released Apex Legends Mobile.
If you ever wondered why you can't get the APK to install programs on Android: This is why
(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Friday February 24, @03:09AM (1 child)
Are there not like a gazillion clones of angry birds? Or to say there are games that are just like it but without the fancy bird and pig graphics and all that shebang cause the game concept isn't exactly new or it wasn't even Rovio that came up with it. They just added the birds and the pigs and story to a type of game that already existed. That said they did it very well and had much, a silly amount of, success with it. But in essence it's a physics game where you launch things at things and break it down. Isn't it?
Perhaps their customers have just caught on? The new games are just fancier graphics and such, they don't care about the story and such things. They just want to hurl some birds, eggs, pigs, whatever at things and watch it break down while they are killing time on their commute or whatever.
It's like all the other Bejeweled and Candy Crush and whatnot. They are not exactly brilliant story games. It's just a time killer when you are bored or have nothing better to do.
Also I'm sure there is some APK file around for Classic Birds if you want to find it, it might be one the sketchier part of the internet but I'm sure it's out there. There might even be a clean version that doesn't infect your phone with anything extra.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by mhajicek on Friday February 24, @06:58AM
They made it big 'cause they released that game around the time everyone was buying their first touchscreen smartphone.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by GloomMower on Friday February 24, @03:56AM (5 children)
> If you ever wondered why you can't get the APK to install programs on Android: This is why
So you can't install it later when they don't want you to? I don't quite get this comment.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24, @06:27AM (1 child)
I thought it would be because he's too busy tweaking his hosts files?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24, @01:48PM
What is an APK and how do I install one [techradar.com]
(Score: 2) by Revek on Friday February 24, @12:45PM (1 child)
We need a neutral obvious tag.
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(Score: 2) by GloomMower on Friday February 24, @03:06PM
I think there are tools to get the APK from app store if you want them... But anyway, never saw the appeal of angry birds, but to each their own.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24, @01:42PM
Correct. If you have the APK in theory you can sideload it. Without the APK you have to get it from a Android 'store' like Google Play or F-Droid. The problem here is that Google Play is full of deceptive data sucking programs with limited options to block the activities for which it is not obvious to the end user and Google wants to be the Be All and End All of Android downloads. It's a terrible situation for end users.
If you have an APK it is like having a .exe file on Windows. You can install and uninstall a program when you need to. Without it you are at the mercy of Google et al.