Sorry, lost all sympathy for Slitherine when they told everyone who'd bought many of their previous iOS games (at great expense - many of the games were $20, some with another $50+ of add-on campaigns), that updating their games to work on 64-bit would be hard, so their most lucrative course of action was to screw their existing customers, and not update any of those costly games.Part of their explanation was, "well, it would be too much work to write format converters for old save games and re-test multiplayer between all the platforms" - fine, so give us an update with those capabilities dropped, but that at least just lets the basic game run single-player with no old save games brought over, and only update the subset of games running on the easier engines to fix - give us something for all the money we poured into the games, to show some loyalty to the customers. Nope, they present it as an all-or-nothing scenario in order to justify not doing anything, and screwing their loyal customers.
https://toucharcade.com/2018/12/05/apple-removes-afghanistan-11-by-slitherine-from-the-app-store/?fbclid=IwAR2RhXe_BZ6SvPo-v_qVwiMdTILZZ-vs25Ah1KUrD7hjr6kMLiorhp-hGnASo much here, but I'll offer these two thoughts:1. This is more a problem of trying to create bright-line rules where judgment is called for. It is a failure of the bureaucratic mentality. Quote your "book of principles" all you like, Apfel-Kinder, but a single adult with a degree in history and a modicum of common sense would have saved you a world of embarrassment here.2. Nobody tell them about "This Guilty Land". They'd probably faint in a fit of the vapors.
I found this interesting from the comments:QuoteSorry, lost all sympathy for Slitherine when they told everyone who'd bought many of their previous iOS games (at great expense - many of the games were $20, some with another $50+ of add-on campaigns), that updating their games to work on 64-bit would be hard, so their most lucrative course of action was to screw their existing customers, and not update any of those costly games.Part of their explanation was, "well, it would be too much work to write format converters for old save games and re-test multiplayer between all the platforms" - fine, so give us an update with those capabilities dropped, but that at least just lets the basic game run single-player with no old save games brought over, and only update the subset of games running on the easier engines to fix - give us something for all the money we poured into the games, to show some loyalty to the customers. Nope, they present it as an all-or-nothing scenario in order to justify not doing anything, and screwing their loyal customers.I haven't purchased anything from the Apple App store in years so I had no idea this had happened.
I have an old iPhone 6 that is in need of replacement. It's stuff like this and Apple's increasing Draconian control that I'm about to go back to an Android phone. Please recommend a good one for me.
The thread title is 'Apple Removes "Vietnam '65" from the App Store' but the article is about them removing "Afghanistan 11". Were both games removed?
One might surmise from that that they concluded the Vietnamese were not a "real people" or some such.
Quote from: bbmike on December 06, 2018, 08:45:55 AMI have an old iPhone 6 that is in need of replacement. It's stuff like this and Apple's increasing Draconian control that I'm about to go back to an Android phone. Please recommend a good one for me. I've had a One Plus for the past couple of years and am very happy with it.