There's monetization on Apple Arcade? I thought the whole point was that most of the games were "plus" versions of mobile games just without the microtransactions. I wouldn't be surprised if companies were double dipping though, and doubly unsurprised if Apple was fine with that.

(controversial opinion) This is why I'm a fan of things like gamepass because it offers a different option for publishers to sell their game other than f2p, even though there's still games on gamepass that have f2p microtransaction bullshit in them.

The game industry is so bad with this shit and desperately needs a big change. Hearing devs say that using things like gamepass allows them to design without f2p microtransactions made me hopeful, but I think a majority of games on the service have some kind of mtx or expansion that they're selling still