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Freeverse recently announced it would be discontinuing some of its older Mac game titles due to incompatibilities with Apple's recently released OS 10.7. The company promised to continue offering support to those who play the discontinued titles with previous versions of OS X.

We here at Freeverse have been focusing on creating fantastic mobile games like Fantastic Fish, Skee-Ball and Flick Fishing. Of course with said focus on mobile games, some of our Mac titles have not gotten the attention that we would have liked to provide them.

Rather than leaving our customers with a sub-par experience running certain titles under OS X Lion, and in light of phasing out our GameSmith service later this summer, we've made the hard decision to discontinue the following titles:

Airburst
Burning Monkey Casino
Burning Monkey Mahjong
Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab
Burning Monkey Solitaire
Enigma
Periscope
Squabble
ToySight
3D Bridge
3D Crazy 8s
Euchre Deluxe
Hearts Deluxe
Pitch-Setback
Spades Deluxe
CrossCards
X-Words Deluxe

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[the Battle Cat]

Not surprising, Freeverse stopped supporting Fate for the PPC the day after they released it... broken and unplayable.  That was the last thing I ever bought from them.

[nagromme]

I really like a number of Freeverse games. Hordes or Orcs!

If they abandoned Fate when Fate was still new, that’s sad (maybe the developer’s fault and not the publisher?) but the PPC titles being discontinued here are not part of any bad pattern: they are ancient!

It looks like Airburst Extreme is no more. The only one I’ll miss!

[clocknova]

So Freeverse has gone the way of almost every Mac-oriented gaming company that has preceded them.  Looks like Apyr is next.  Sigh.  Let's hope we get to keep Feral.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

... what? Aspyr has been still doing lots more for Mac gaming than Freeverse what with their store and rereleasing titles on the Mac App store, offering Feral titles in theirs and now starting to port new games again. The same thing with freeverse this didn't suddenly happen when Lion was released but it was a matter of time when something isn't worked on or updated any longer that it'll stop working. PowerPC apps have been on a moratorium just waiting to be totally obsoleted since the transition to intel started to be frank.

Feral also has a stable of old games that are now obsolete on Lion that probably wont ever get updates but they just haven't made a press release about it. Most of them older games just like the ones that have been discontinued by Aspyr and Freeverse.
Would you be saying the same thing about them if they did?

This hysteria over the loss of rosetta is getting quite ridiculous if you ask me with all the doomsaying about these companies. Aspyr isn't closing down their store and pulling their games from the mac app store, other outlets and canceling their upcoming ports or anything. I've been down on them for not bringing enough new games to the Mac lately but even I see this.

People, Rosetta isn't the entire Mac gaming ecosystem and there are ways to get your classics to run on there even without it several ways actually.

[clocknova]

Actually, I was referring to the fact that they've gone from making real Mac games to making casual games for mobile platforms, abandoning their original business model, much like Macplay did.

[Matt Diamond]

nagromme, on 25 July 2011 - 09:25 AM, said:

It looks like Airburst Extreme is no more. The only one I’ll miss!

I asked Aaron Fothergill of Strange Flavour about this in the Freeverse forums. He said that they are thinking it over, which is mildly encouraging. One option they are apparently considering is to make a new Airburst, possibly including new features from on an XBox version that was never completed.