{"id":12274,"date":"2015-09-13T16:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12274"},"modified":"2015-09-24T19:34:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T23:34:50","slug":"electronic-artss-recent-app-store-removals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/13\/electronic-artss-recent-app-store-removals\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Arts&rsquo;s Recent App Store Removals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toucharcade.com\/2015\/09\/11\/ea-quietly-removes-flight-control-real-racing-and-other-classics-from-the-app-store\/\">Eli Hodapp<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/stevenf.com\/2015\/09\/11\/ea-quietly-removes-flight-control-real-racing-and-other-classics-from-the-app-store\/\">Steven Frank<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/toucharcade.com\/2015\/09\/11\/ea-quietly-removes-flight-control-real-racing-and-other-classics-from-the-app-store\/\"><p>If you were going to put together a list of <em>truly<\/em> classic iOS titles, and both <em>Flight Control<\/em> and <em>Real Racing<\/em> weren&rsquo;t on it, you&rsquo;d have some explaining to do. Sadly, it seems as of about ten days ago, the only place those games will exist anymore is in <a href=\"http:\/\/toucharcade.com\/2009\/03\/09\/flight-control-a-casual-and-incredibly-fun-air-traffic-control-game\/\">ancient reviews<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8--2Z9Z1H-8\">YouTube trailers<\/a>. As accidentally spotted by Shaun last night, while looking for something else, <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ea.com\/sg\/article\/support-ending-for-older-ea-mobile-games\/\">EA has removed<\/a> the following games from the App Store[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenf.com\/2015\/09\/12\/further-thoughts-on-eas-recent-app-store-removals\/\">Steven Frank<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/stevenf.com\/2015\/09\/12\/further-thoughts-on-eas-recent-app-store-removals\/\"><p>We don&rsquo;t know for sure, but presumably EA pulled the games because they&rsquo;re not compatible with the latest version of iOS, and it&rsquo;s not financially sound to provide an update.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>These were arguably historically significant titles, and there is no official mechanism to archive them for preservation.<\/p><p>Maybe it seems silly &mdash; they&rsquo;re &ldquo;just&rdquo; games after all, right? But now the only source of these binaries is DRM-laced copies that someone happened to purchase and download.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Hodapp (via Steven Frank): If you were going to put together a list of truly classic iOS titles, and both Flight Control and Real Racing weren&rsquo;t on it, you&rsquo;d have some explaining to do. Sadly, it seems as of about ten days ago, the only place those games will exist anymore is in ancient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,1016,418,295,31,26],"class_list":["post-12274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-datacide","tag-game","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12385,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}