Apple Adds and Removes a monthly subscription iPad gaming from Apple Store

Big Fish games with a monthly subscription plan got dumped by apple under circumstances currently unknown.

Apple has removed their subscription-based iPad gaming app named Big Fish Games from app store days after its introduction for iOS devices.

The monthly subscription plan proposed by Big Fish included unlimited game play for iPad users with monthly reoccurring fees, the fees initially set to $7 or Rs 350 per month. The game offered here for download is all the popular games coming from this brand. 

This subscription based model actually been available since last week, although new subscription had been disable from iTunes app store ahead of the official launch due to high demand, according to the developer and related agencies are still in the search of Apple's reasons for removing the app.

Whatever the reason might be, but still there are quite a few subscription model based apps accessible on apple iTunes store and are been successfully running, this may makes it a little more difficult to the reason behind the application has removed from the store.

Although Big Fish upset with apple’s decision is in the process of announcing a similar app for the Android users also and will be announcing it in the first quarter of the coming year.

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Apple opens up monthly subscription model to game publishers on iPad

Apple is now begin letting video game publishers offer their titles to iPad users by way of subscription model also a revenue stream earlier only available to digital publications via newspaper and magazine publishers. Explicitly, Big Fish Games, a Seattle-based game publisher gained approval from the tight fisted gate guardian that is Apple, as first in the history to offer users access to dozens of titles for $6.99 a month. Till now, games have only been available one at a time, users required to download each application individually.

So users who buy Big Fish Games subscription, they can able to play games which games are made available through a dedicated app. On the other hand games are initially streamed to users’ iPad from the Big bit Fish data center, there user requires to have Wi-Fi access to play game. And every time, the Cupertino Company will keep their 30% cut of revenues with the developer, a model which has been long standing from a number of year. 

The company in the process of convincing Apple of the subscription model, the founder of Big Fish Games’ Paul Thelen says: it took longer than usual to be approved… surely we have reason behind to charge customers every month. We excited to see how the sales do with this subscription model. iPad users feel free to leave your though about how this may change your gaming habit on your sexy iPad. 

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