Builders spoke to mobilegamer.biz about their frustrations constructing Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional video games for the Apple Arcade service.
The revelations come as a part of the outlet’s second Inside Apple Arcade report.
One Imaginative and prescient Professional developer reportedly mentioned Apple’s developer relations engineers do not appear to know the headset themselves. “The technical assist is terrible – the worst I’ve seen anyplace,” they reportedly mentioned. “They’re unable to supply any insights into how the {hardware} and the software program it runs on works, or how important middleware is supposed to work with it.”
“Growing for Imaginative and prescient Professional is like going again in time 10 years as a result of regardless of the marketed energy – and the associated fee – it’s not a machine constructed for gaming. Getting any advanced video games engaged on the platform is tough.”
Two different builders reportedly claimed Apple approached them to make a Imaginative and prescient Professional recreation however did not supply any funding, and would not decide to promotion or advertising and marketing both, which one described as “baffling”. That is in stark distinction to Meta, which historically presents builders full funding for perpetual Quest exclusivity or partial funding for launching on Quest first.
Apple Arcade builders for conventional gadgets reportedly really feel Apple sees gaming and recreation builders as a “mandatory evil”. “Apple 100% doesn’t perceive avid gamers”, one claimed.
mobilegamer.biz says it contacted Apple for remark however didn’t obtain a response.