In the past week, 9to5Mac reported that 15 games are leaving Apple Arcade soon, as the company added a tab on the App Store that shows which games are leaving the service in the near future. With some questions remaining, the company has now addressed what happens when a game leaves Apple Arcade.
In an updated support document, Apple explains what happens when a game leaves Apple Arcade:
“Games can sometimes leave Apple Arcade. If you download a game before it leaves Arcade, you can play it for at least two weeks after. If you try to start an Arcade game that is no longer playable, you will receive a No Longer Available message,” the support document says. “After a game leaves Arcade, the game developer may choose to make their game available on the App Store. These games may vary from the Arcade version. If the developer makes their game available on the App Store and allows you to load your saved progress, you can pick up where you left off in the Arcade version.”
With that statement, Apple addresses that subscribers will have two more weeks to play an outgoing Arcade game, the developer can make this game available on the App Store (although the user will have to download it again), and it’s up to the developer if they will allow for the Apple Arcade subscriber to load their previously saved progress into this new app.
MacRumors heard from an inside source who explained why more games might leave Apple Arcade soon. According to the publication, “Apple signed three-year agreements with several developers, entering into contracts that provided a fixed payment and ongoing royalties,” which are now ending and Apple is not renewing some of them.
You can learn all the games that will be leaving the platform soon here.
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