We were there already:
1) Atari games
2) Shareware games
3) Online flash arcades
and now:
4) Mobile apps
It's not like those are all the milestones in home/personal entertainment. There were also things like the NES, playstation, XBox, etc, etc etc. To equate mobile apps with any of those seems a bit off. Atari is probably the closest thing but that was still 30 years ago.
Guys like that are killing the industry, for sure, that's why I think the mobile apps industry will eat itself in about 2 years...
They are very much in the minority on the app store, most app customers don't know they exist. They certainly aren't killing the industry, this thing has only just started.
They are very much in the minority on the app store, most app customers don't know they exist. They certainly aren't killing the industry, this thing has only just started.
"Eclipsecraft", one of this guy's scam games, is currently about #8 in the "role playing games" chart.
This absolutely poisons customer confidence in the entire app store. Why bother using iOs over Android when you can't even trust the top ranking apps to not be scams?
"Eclipsecraft", one of this guy's scam games, is currently about #8 in the "role playing games" chart.
This absolutely poisons customer confidence in the entire app store. Why bother using iOs over Android when you can't even trust the top ranking apps to not be scams?
Actually it's the #1 paid role playing game right now with over 509 1-star reviews. WTF.
As a long term member on here posting under a pseudonym (for reasons that will be obvious in a moment), last week I actually had some time with some humans from Apple (I work for a carrier) in a sit-down morning session, and they invited us to field some questions at them.
Apart from the carrier-specific questions, I also asked them about this type of stuff, paid-for-reviews, and the general 'scamminess' of the Top 20 at times (Mirror, Lockify type apps, general crap that anyone with half a brain can see is a scam).
Their answer? They didn't believe it actually goes on. I showed them some links from elance/freelancer.com. Total bewilderment, almost as though I'd made it up!!
So it's no wonder it goes on. There's no one even looking out for it!!
Their answer? They didn't believe it actually goes on. I showed them some links from elance/freelancer.com. Total bewilderment, almost as though I'd made it up!!
So it's no wonder it goes on. There's no one even looking out for it!!
They can't be the right apple people to speak to, you'd get the same response from any other dept that had little to do with the app store Im sure.
Their answer? They didn't believe it actually goes on. I showed them some links from elance/freelancer.com. Total bewilderment, almost as though I'd made it up!!
Do they not *look* at the app store? Eclipsecraft is now in the top list. Also, surely a great deal of people falling for the scam are pressing the 'report' button... do they just ignore these reports?
Who says I wasn't speaking to the App Store people?! We were there to discuss our apps...
"Apart from the carrier-specific questions, I also asked them about this type of stuff,"
I'd only expect the anti scammer team to know about this stuff. Maybe there isn't one, but people do get their accounts terminated by someone. I suspect theres a variety of divisions within 'app store people'.
Because the screenshots are, literally, of Minecraft. Kids see the stolen icon (which, incidentally, is the second result when you search Google for "Minecraft icon"), read the misleading description that is designed to lead one into thinking it's a Minecraft clone and see the Minecraft "screenshots" and assume they are getting Minecraft.
Top Best Adult Entertainment "One of the worst developers in the world" by Kotaku
We were there to discuss our apps...
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