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Many of my (paid) mobile games became "unsupported" (feddit.cl)
submitted 1 year ago by Granixo@feddit.cl to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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I own a Moto G8 Play (with Android 10 installed), and i noticed that over the last months i haven't been able to play or install various games that i purchased on this very phone (and also games on which i had made in-app purchases).

Some of the games in question are:

  • The King of Fighters '97

  • Lara Croft: Relic Run

  • Asphalt Nitro

Is there any solution for this?

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, he's right. Updating the OS sometimes makes software that hasn't updated show up as being "unsupported on your device" specifically due to the APP being too old, not the OS being too old. It's bullshit.

The apps work most of the time, but the Play Store won't let you download/install it. You need to go find the .APK and manually install it.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 10 points 1 year ago

Yup this is it...

Starting from 1 Nov 2022, apps that don't target an API level within two years of the latest Android release (API 29 and below) won't be available to new users with devices running Android versions newer than your app's target API level. This means that new users won't be able to discover or install your app on Google Play

So if the app is older than 2 years... and hasn't been updated to say it supports the API level your phone is on, it will not appear available for you in the play store. Most of the time, the APK still works fine... The app developer just doesn't support the app anymore and thus hasn't updated the arbitrary checkbox for the playstore. On one hand, if it still shows up in the play store you know the app dev is at least "around"... On the other hand... it doesn't make sense to keep updating an app that doesn't need updates.

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