EA has removed a number of its biggest games from the iOS App Store, including Flight Control, Mass Effect Infiltrator, and Bejeweled 2.
Because of how the App Store is structured, there is no way to retrieve these games even if you previously downloaded them, nor is it possible to transfer these games from one iOS device to another.
Here's what's gone from the App Store:
- Bejeweled 2
- Burnout™ CRASH!
- Dead Space
- Don't Fall Off
- Flight Control
- Flight Control Rocket
- Fly With Me
- Lemonade Tycoon
- MASS EFFECT™ INFILTRATOR
- MMA by EA SPORTS™
- Need for Speed Shift
- Real Racing
- Sims Medieval by EA
- Skate It by EA
- Spore™ Creatures
- Spore™ Origins
- SPY Mouse
As TouchArcade notes, some of the games EA has removed were seminal titles that popularized gaming on mobile devices. Unfortunately, because they are gone from the store, they'll exist only on devices with the games still installed, and on game reviews on the internet.
The removal of these games from the Apple ecosystem shows just how fragile digital-only games can be without efforts to properly archive them.
Source: TouchArcade
