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Ridiculously juvenile and simplistic. Insulting to anyone with intelligence. Bonus: Has LOTS of third party junk included.
This is a review where I checked for safety and sanity, then playability. This game fails on all three counts. The game tries to get the serial number of the device upon start-up. I blocked that, and it continued loading. Then it tried to initialize and grab a network socket. I blocked that and the game still continued to launch. It then tried to gain access to my external storage. I blocked that and it still continued to launch. Then I played the game. WOW. Seriously stupid questions! An example: "What type of picture does an artist get when using a camera?" If you answered, "photograph" congrats, you won the question. Yes, a majority of the questions are this bad. Grammar is poor, also. There just was too little quality control that went into this. The fact that the game still ran even when I blocked all permissions and attempts for it to gather personal data and open internet sockets proves that it doesn't actually NEED them to run at all! The only thing that doesn't work if you block everything is the "more games" link. Who cares, I can use the App Store for that. Since this is a FULL VERSION game supposedly, this stuff should have been cleaned up and removed, in my opinion. The add-on code should also have been removed. The excuse that "it's too much work to do it" is nothing more than "we're lazy programmers who don't really care about the quality of what we do." And you know what? It shows. Other apps by this developer, such as Dominoes, come loaded with even more garbage, This developer has had apps featured as the FAOTD before and it's quite clear by now that they just don't care too much about giving us quality games. This one is so half-baked that it's embarrassing. But just selling us the app once is not good enough. This app contains the following third party components, none of which are disclosed by the developer. And whether they are "used" or not is irrelevant. It's still garbage clogging up our devices, bloating the game itself for no reason. AND of course, if the code IS there, it can be activated at any time. So in a full version game, the only right thing to do is to remove it. REMOVE IT. Anyway, here is what I found: ADVERTISING: --Admob --Adsense ANALYTICS: --Google Analytics SOCIAL MEDIA:: --Facebook IN-APP-Purchasing ENGINES: --Paypal --Fortumo In conclusion, I have to ask: Why would anyone release just a tossed-together pile of junk like this? Pass on this. It's just not worth it. It's not fun, it's insulting, it's half-baked. Don't reward developers for putting out crap by even giving them a "download" even when it's free. Otherwise, they may never learn that quality still matters in this world, at least to some of us.
February 2014 · Unknown · verified purchase
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