Abandoned Games lacking Updates

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  1. spockgold007

    spockgold007 Well-Known Member

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    they could add a speedometer and a race mode
     
  2. SkyMuffin

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    #22 SkyMuffin, Aug 11, 2011
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    The game is perfectly balanced if you're not using any of the expansions. I can win 90% of those games. It's when you throw in the expansions (any of them, even just one) that the game is completely off-balance. You can literally draw six monster cards in a row and then die-- repeatedly. Or the monsters are so strong that you have absolutely no chance of fighting back.

    It's not a question of skill-- the majority of reviewers on the appstore also share this same problem.
     
  3. soldat7

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    Tiny Wings and Battle for Wesnoth spring to mind.
     
  4. onyx77

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    Can't believe that no one has mentioned chop chop caveman. Unless it has been updated and i missed it there has apparently been an upcoming new world since the day it was released. Damn game had so much potential to stick around on my device.
     
  5. shyguy3

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    Turbografx 16-Game Box, it's been two and a half months since Hudson last added new games to the app.
     
  6. Teknikal

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    The only one that really bugs me and I've bought a lot of games is dj mix tour which occasionaly has tiny freezes which are minor but still enough to mess up your timing and ruin your score.

    I'm pretty sure gameloft could fix that in five minute as I'm sure it's simply due to the 3D backgrounds and people dancing but being gameloft they just ignore the bugs and move onto the next game.
    I think I find it so irritating because the game could be something special and it's the only tap game really that appeals to my taste in music.

    To agree with some other posters I'd also like to see battle of wesnoth updated I've very recently been messing with the pc version trying to learn to play it on my ipod better.
     
  7. acakebread

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    Hi there, you'll be pleased to hear that we have finally rolled out PolarStorm for iOS devices. You were right to assume that we did temporarily abandon iOS and indeed all development! You have to pay the bills, and some members of the team were commandeered off to work on bigger publisher titles [working for the enemy :) ]. We have updated most of the TileStorm series now, and there are multiple versions of the games to cater for HD devices. I will try to create a main thread specifically for PolarStorm at some point unless someone else wants to - in the mean time Merry Christmas to all
     
  8. EfratBarTal

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    still waiting on that last world of Paco Mania ..
     
  9. aghartastudio

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    I want more dungeon raid ^^
     
  10. foxmulderino

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    the answer is easy: the most part of iOS games, simply because there are somewhat like billions of them on appstore LOL
     
  11. ScottColbert

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    I really don't understand this attitude of calling older games abandoned, simply because the dev has moved onto something else, or whatever the case may be. That's like saying that ID should still update Doom for the PC because its not compatible with Win7. It's this self entitlement gamers have that will kill handheld gaming more than iap or freemium ever could.
     
  12. Darth Ronfar

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    Battle Heart.... After all the support and praise they never added more levels.... Just 2 New characters...(something I didnt even care about. In fact theres still people in there asking for the same things I was like a year ago or like a few weeks after it came out early this year I guess....
     
  13. Zenkunta11

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    POCKET CREATURES!

    Game was freaking amazing in the beginning....
     
  14. 5duc29

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    Kind of want an updated retina displayed icon for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Discovery--- one of the best games on the app store. Same goes to Sonic 1, 2, and 4 for retina displayed icons.

    DoomR- Retina displayed icon.

    Perfect Cell- more levels would be nice, AND changing the icon to its initial one when it was released wouldn't hurt either.

    Synth Racing (iSR)- So much potential gone :(

    Ynth- Another classic... Retina displayed icon is fine and fixing the openfeint or add Game Center :/

    Armada, Blocked, Red Conquest!, Rick Rocketson...
     
  15. psj3809

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    Great thread, this is why i havent updated to iOS5. I'm worried so many of my apps (Got 400 installed) wont work, i've seen lots of updates to the 'big name' games so they work on iOS5 but theres a lot of games by smaller companies which might not have sold well which i've got, and dont want to lose if i upgrade.
     
  16. mrWalrus

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    Hey! I'm not dead yet. ;)

    My next game comes out in February. I'm pouring everything I can into it. With any luck, it'll help me finally be able to hire some people to work on iSR again.

    I also have an app coming in the next day or so called 'My Santa Clock'. I'm hoping that moves a couple copies as well. Believe me, I want nothing more than to work on Synth Racing again.. because especially with things like Airplay, and Apple's new TV on the horizon, and the increased graphical capabilities of the new chips over what we were working with before... it would look like an entirely different game now. :)

    Anyway, I made Synth Racing free last night.

    Happy Holidays Everyone!
     
  17. It's wonderful to see devs returning!

    Red Conquest
    Battle for Wesnoth
    Tiny Wings
    Epic Pet Wars
    Godfinger
    We Rule
     
  18. EfratBarTal

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    Anodia .. devs promised a huge update quite a long time ago. tweeted them earlier today, see if/what they reply. :)
     
  19. dumaz1000

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    Gameloft won't update the paid version of GT:Motor Academy. They have a Freemium version though and they have no issues with updating that one. The music/sound effects, likely in iOS 5, are completely screwed up.
     
  20. Quazonk

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    Quarrel Deluxe. UNBELIEVEABLE game, somehow didn't come with multiplayer. Update was promised...never happened :(

    Tiny Wings. My god did that dev ever slip up on that. Could've secured a spot under Angry Birds for all of eternity if he had kept up on that.
     

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