App Store acceptance taking a loooooonngg time..

Discussion in 'Public Game Developers Forum' started by dangerz, May 30, 2009.

  1. rdklein

    rdklein Well-Known Member

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    the update for poc now went through in 7days, while the new app still is revies now 14 days.
     
  2. mobileben

    mobileben Well-Known Member

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    When you submit, does Apple even send some form of a "You've submitted an app" e-mail? We submitted, it does show up in iTune Connect. But no e-mail was ever received.

    Thanks.

    Ben
     
  3. AlexN

    AlexN Well-Known Member

    Nope, no email will be sent. You might get an email when the app is approved, but not always - to be safe, you should check your app status in iTunesConnect daily.
     
  4. qwiboo

    qwiboo Well-Known Member

    New app - 15 days now, still waiting - not funny :(
     
  5. jeknightx

    jeknightx Well-Known Member

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    minigore is taking forever
     
  6. Hmar9333

    Hmar9333 Well-Known Member

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    Jesus Apple, what are you doing!

    Shape up, or ship out.
     
  7. qwiboo

    qwiboo Well-Known Member

    Do you have any idea if they work during weekends? I mean if games get approved also during weekend and appear in appstore or is it just working days only?

    I'm sick of checking the review page every day, so would be nice to have a break during weekend :)
     
  8. daveak

    daveak Well-Known Member

    weekends are working days for app store approvals.
     
  9. mrWalrus

    mrWalrus Well-Known Member

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    I can't say what a long time is, or isn't, as it appears there are hundreds of apps being submitted to the store each day. I'm sure the people doing the reviews are doing the absolute best they can. I will say however, the multitudes updates on 'specific sports team' and 'travel city guide' apps needs to start taking a back seat to people who are actually trying to do this thing legitimately. :rolleyes:

    lol

    Saying that, it's been 9 days since we submitted version 1.002 of Synth Racing. Here's to hoping it's out soon! :D
     
  10. headcaseGames

    headcaseGames Well-Known Member

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    yup been exactly one week since our submission (very first one) + no news yet. it' s a drag but you know what, i am just happy its out the door and I have no shortage of other things to do while waiting on it.

    seriously - while you are waiting, just start cranking on your next baby!! :) There's no time like the present..

    if it takes another week from now I won't think it's too bad, if it starts going on from there then I might be antsy :)

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    btw think about the Dark Ages, when people would drop floppy disks in the mail and hope that they'd land publication some months later (.....) in the magazines, yikes..
     
  11. IMBA

    IMBA Well-Known Member

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    CopterKid submitted 12th July, approved on 26th!
     
  12. nerv_media

    nerv_media Well-Known Member

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    Hey Guys,

    It looks like you just have to wait it out I am afraid, obviously there is a lot of stuff being submitted to Apple at the moment - we have been waiting since 6th July for Taxi Jam to be approved, still nothing heard. Hope you guys won't have to wait this long!

    Patience is a virtue and all that!;)

    Cheers,

    Ringo
    nerv media
     
  13. BeyondtheTech

    BeyondtheTech Well-Known Member

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    Wow, did they simply forget everyone who submitted their game around that holiday weekend? I submitted Archangel: FGC on July 5 and I've been in limbo since. Granted, I did get two rejections due to graphic issues (large and small icons not matching, then using an image of an iPhone in my logo), but I've always uploaded the correction within a few hours, and since then all I got were canned responses...

    "Thank you for uploading a new binary. We will notify you if there are any further issues."

    Grrr....
     
  14. nerv_media

    nerv_media Well-Known Member

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    Hi BeyondtheTech,

    We received confirmation today that the game has been released - we had no issues with it at all - just silence for three weeks and then a release.

    If you want to try the game you can download it here

    cheers,

    Ringo
    nerv media
     
  15. PixelthisMike

    PixelthisMike Well-Known Member

    Well you've convinced me, it looks interesting :) If you get a single sale in New Zealand for today you know who it was!
     
  16. VgSlag

    VgSlag Well-Known Member

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    I submitted my game on the 10th of July and it was approved on the 25th of July.

    I think during the wait you just need to try and forget about it or try and do some early marketing.
     
  17. Trak4Game

    Trak4Game Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2009
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    Good news / Bad news

    The Good news is the queue might be freeing up a bit. I got a response back on my Trak4 1.1 update in 7 days.

    The bad news is that the reviewer rejected it! I guess that makes me a real developer now.

    The problem is that the reviewer rejected the app for artwork that had appeared in Trak4 1.0 AND Trak4 Lite 1.0.

    More details here

    http://trak4game.com/?page_id=46
     
  18. BeyondtheTech

    BeyondtheTech Well-Known Member

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    Wow, that's great news, nerv_media. I hope to hear some positive results shortly!
     
  19. nerv_media

    nerv_media Well-Known Member

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    Hooray!

    Cheers BeyondtheTech,

    We are hoping the game does well after such a long wait. It would be interesting to get peoples wait times for their applications and graph them against the date that they submitted them. It might help give us devs a better idea of what our wait times are likely to be.

    If anyone is interested in doing this with me then get in touch!

    Cheers,

    Ringo
    nerv media
     
  20. mrWalrus

    mrWalrus Well-Known Member

    Dec 20, 2008
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    An update.

    Synth Racing ver 1.002 was approved today. After 11 days in the App store.
    http://bit.ly/YQyeJ

    All the best, and god speed to everyone hoping to get their app approved.
     

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