>We firmly believe that removing fully functional artistic works simply due to infrequent updates undermines the value and sustainability of games as cultural and artistic products. Like books, films, and music albums, video games represent complete creative works that do not inherently require continual updates beyond maintaining basic functionality
Is the Apple app store there to provide that kind of perpetual access?
A book's perpetual existence is mostly because a physical copy exists, that's not really the same, nor is anyone assuring it still exists.
I do sympathize with the issue about requiring updates and etc, I ran into that with Google recently, but I'm not sure I buy into this idea that requiring updates shouldn't happen ever because "my game is like art and art doesn't require updates".
Is the Apple app store there to provide that kind of perpetual access?
A book's perpetual existence is mostly because a physical copy exists, that's not really the same, nor is anyone assuring it still exists.
I do sympathize with the issue about requiring updates and etc, I ran into that with Google recently, but I'm not sure I buy into this idea that requiring updates shouldn't happen ever because "my game is like art and art doesn't require updates".