Quick Look: Apple Arcade

What's going on with these awful YouTube clickbait-style thumbnails?

Non premium stuff is just on youtube, so they're probably aiming at new viewers.

I honestly also 100% do not understand the reaction they're getting here. They're more informative and overall an improvement from a random shot or just a title card. Especially when there's a variety of games on display.

I don't see what's clickbait-y about them at all? Do ya'll understand what the 'bait' part of clickbait even means?

I'm glad the intern making the thumbnails finally got their media training.

I like that we're conditioned now that getting irrationally angry on the internet is the way to get what we want.

@turboman:saying one of your favourite YouTubers is Ant***y Fa***no to this day is not a good look given the legitimately awful people he has given platforms to, as well as his own questionable content.

@antihero: That's the one. After browsing through past purchases yesterday (longer than I'd care to admit), I found it and somehow lost two hours playing it.

I really hope they just don't listen to people and keep doing what they ENJOY doing, which is ya know, making fun content for the site and not having to pander to myopic arguments over thumbnails, thumbnails. Whats next, a contra game where you can't shoot?

@finalcut: I disagree. You're free to DM me with whatever you're talking about and we can talk about it there since it wasn't a part of what I was trying to pitch on this thread.

The thumbnails are fun!
Also these games don't really look like something I kinda... want to play...?

NOTHING STOPS THE GAME ROO - oh, wait; Apple's definition of "arcade" is vastly different than my own. :(

I'm a fan of the stupid thumbnails

I'm not entirely against Youtuber thumbnails in concept, but I am against having the host portraits be so tiny and cut out so poorly. Take some greenscreened glamor shots of multiple facial expressions or something, I don't know. These are bad, and not funny-bad.

The entire literal point of Apple Arcade is that microtransactions aren't allowed, so I don't see developers sneaking them back in.

Brad complained about that screensaver feature that darkens the screen when not using it for a while and that multiple platforms have that issue that needs to be fixed, but isn't it a feature that you can turn off on most platforms? Why doesn't he do that if it annoys him so much?

Looks like they saved the best for last in this one, that golf game sure looked good, and that soundtrack was super pleasant as well!

I can dig a future where PC indie games are also released on mobile.

@judgementkazzy: Uh huh. And buying a $60 game also used to mean you'd purchased the entire game. Corporations have no interest in keeping promises to you; if it means increasing their bottom line. Let's circle back in a year and have this conversation, after the platform has established itself.

@sekou: ok. Though I’ll place a hefty bet that I’m correct that the service built entirely around the premise of no microtransactions allowed is still free of them in a year’s time.

I would both love and hate to see that at the same time lol. I'm with most people here, the YT thumbnails make the site look cheap and lame.

I like how 95 percent of the comments are about a video thumbnail and not Apple Arcade. That’s totally normal.

You seem like a cool person who isn't overreacting at all.

Hot tip: you can see which devs took bribes for an exclusivity deal, took money to deny you choice, by looking up the APPIDs on Steam of these games. APPIDs being sequentially assigned gives you a rough idea of when Steam pages for games were initially created and devs intended to sell there. This of course doesn't definitively tell you who sold out, just some of those who did. It also counters the popular notion in this scenario that 'Apple funded these games and they wouldn't happen without this deal'.

Just want to say that I'm totally into GB exploring new things and having fun! Felt the need to counter balance all the angry people who seem really bent out of shape over a thumbnail.

A thumbnail, of all things...

@yuck: Haha, of course you give precious "GBE" (as if it's a separate entity) a pass.

One What the Golf? joke spoiler - SUPERPUTT

The Capcom sea game reminded me of Waking Mars by Tiger Style games.