I know how you feel I am endear with gameloft because that gave me my dream RTS for the iPhone and I feel among all devs for the iPhone they are potentially the most capable of making the killer app if only they step out of their cliche but all this negativity doesn't accomplish anything, what I read are from most of the other members are not even constructive but just plain hate and fanboism.
i checked out a few App Store reviews, one of them posted a possible solution to the UPNP problem (username roger65714) - enabling the UPNP settings on the router. has anyone tried this yet? does it work? btw, roger65714 seems to be a legit account. he's done more reviews on music and just one for this game. so i hope his solution works for those who are having problems with the game. as for shills, i read the article about a dev being banned because of this practice - this was upon notice/complaint forwarded to apple. if apple is taking decisive action on such a practice, no matter how widespread it is among gaming companies, then we'll have to wait and see what happens next. assuming there is an actual complaint lodged with apple already or there is someone who will file it, of course. maybe apple will come out with stricter rules on the app store review process and come up with a practical solution because it will be nearly impossible to monitor all the shills going on. just my two cents.
Well, the only true fanboyism taking place here, as ive said, is actually FPS fanboyism. Same goes for the alleged anti-gameloft conspiricy. If Eliminate and Modern Combat were from IUGO and EA, wed see more fighting over then than we would Ngmoco and Gameloft! Sad but true! It's all about the FPSes to these people!
Ever heard about viral marketing? Shill reviews are the same way! Remember the Sony psp viral marketing campaign gone wrong? The stupid rap song ' all I want for Xmas if a psp' well my point is even if a co is guilty for shilling or not I don't really think a corporation like apple will make a big deal out of it, I bet even them has a marketing budget for viral marketing! As Derek said it's business, and no successful business is 100% honest! Ask Bill gates!
gameloft vs ngmoco TA battles has been here since time immemorial, if it is iugo vs ea I don't think a flame war will even exist
It's ok, but the damage could already be done.. sorry for yelling at you, but you were about to open up a flame war unintentionally and nobody likes that..