Indeed -- but all things considered, if developers truly did have a way to light a fire under some reviewer butt, Cupertino would be a pile of ashes by now.
I need help! I play L.A.-3 Level in the prison. When I go through EXIT door i come in an middle room with control station on the right, than I walk through the other door and there are towers, which shoot me. STraight in front of me is another door in the rock. And this door I can't open.... Is this the right way???
There is a red Key Card somewhere you need to pick up, i think when you go out into this canyon and to the left.
OK seriously, is this controls update coming out or NOT??? I personally don't think the controls are bad at all - the game is very playable - but I want to see that they at least care for those of us who bought their game.
Who are you asking? How are we supposed to know? George Broussard already said the update was submitted on August 13. From that point it's out of his hands. There appears to be a backlog in the approval process at the moment. I waited for 3 weeks to get an update to a simple camera app. You just have to be patient.
It sucks that there isn't a rush process or the ability to pay to get an update pushed through. Sales for Duke Nukem 3D on the App store probably went down quite a bit when word of mouth went around of the bad controls, with no update after 3 weeks of release its difficult to get those sales back.
The developer should have sent in the game in final and playable form to begin with. I'm not buying it until/unless the controls are reasonable, and I don't think that's too much to ask from other developers. Stop rushing products!
Apple is an absolute joke at the moment. How can it take this long to approve an update when it is clear that their approval process doesn't actually test anything in the first place. I suppose from one point of view it is a good thing that it now takes a LONG time for stuff to get approved.... especially updates. It will encourage devs to get it right first time round instead of rush out a half finished app. A delay like this on a vital gameplay fix will sink allot of apps... and by the time a playable version of Duke Nukem finally comes out then Gameloft will have another highly polished game being released.
actually i doubt, that the devs send in the update, when they said they did. prolly just said this to calm down their pissed off customers....
They said it was submitted August 13th. I don't know if the update queue is different from the new game queue, but the new Samurai game that just came out was submitted on August 21st according to the developer's website. Seems odd to me that an update to a game that was supposedly submitted 8 days before still hasn't arrived. But who knows what happens behinds Apple's closed doors...
The developers have noone to blame but themselves for this one. They should've had it working out the door. Agreed on your second point. It isn't, however, Apple's job to beta test the app. They may not even run the app (probably do, but it's unlikely they'll play through an entire game, for example). Their job is to make sure it doesn't have any system breaking code, malicious software, and has appropriate content. Broken controls are not their concern. Geo Defense Swarm was submitted just before the 13th, and was only just rejected. Also, it's possible that some games simply have more content to go through, or are given extra scrutiny for whatever reason, slowing down the process further.
I didn't think so, but if there are actually real complaints about a broken app. I don't think this is THAT broken though. I can't see why it's a US thing only, unless someone complained about licensing.
