Agree, it's pointless now to add Gamecenter to your game, so devs no more Gamecenter. I am gonna buy much less games now in fact I am keeping it down to 1 or 2 games a week, only the best I will play, no more Achievement hunting for me, I played many games just for the Achievements, well those days are gone.
Agreed, ive always been an achievement chaser and found gamecenter' app really useful for tracking it all in one spot plus finding games through friends play lists and whatnot. This is going to dramatically slow my purchasing habits, as you said.
Yeah, Gamecenter was 35% of the fun I had with IOS, maybe I will get the Nintendo NX now to get back to consoles.
Apple is really striving to move less casual games from iOS ecosystem. Not that there's anything wrong woth casual games, but the more types the merries. Seriously, I can't seem to grasp some of their decisions.
Not sure if this was mentioned anywhere else, but a few of my users pointed this out. I've verified that it's an issue with a ton of games, not just my own. When in landscape mode, any buttons on the far left edge of the screen have this weird second-long input lag. It's really noticeable in any game using a virtual Dpad with buttons near the left edge. It's also more noticeable if you press and hold vs just tap. This doesn't happen in every game, but so far I can replicate it in most of my landscape library. I'm not seeing this mentioned anywhere else online, so I'm hoping someone at Apple notices, because as a dev it's completely out of my hands. I'd love to know if other members or staff of TA notices this, because it's a pretty annoying problem.
Hey Noogy, great seeing you again. I can't say I have the same problem on my SE. :/ Not even with Dust. Do you think it's device specifc? What device are you experiencing the problem with?
I see some kind of ipad related problem with orientation listed here. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2016/09/ios-10-bugs.html
That's an understatement, I am not gonna play small indie devs games anymore because Gamecenter is gone, too bad for those devs.
I was Patiently waiting for more information about Game Center on iOS 10. Hoping more details would surface as time went on but I've yet to find any information about it. Today I discovered a book on iBooks, "iPhone users guide for iOS 10". This book is made by Apple yet I can find no reference to Game Center in it anywhere. It's clear to me now that Apple "isn't that into us". There was little to no consideration for Game Center users when they decided to remove the app. We can't make friend requests or browse though current friends games or even look at their scores to see where we need to step it up to maintain our position. That last one can be done in each game app, but that option has always been there. Did anyone ever go game by game checking the competition? I know I didn't. From what I can see the only thing the messaging app has taken on is sending multiplayer request. It would seem, that for this to work, the person you are sending a request to has to be in you iOS contacts. I might be wrong about this, I haven't used it, but I can't access a list of Game Center friends from within the message app. I still have confidence that this is going somewhere better then what we had with the standalone app, but this doesn't seem to be far enough along in that process to remove the app all together.
I hear ya. Other than Apple's server load, I'm not sure who benefitted from axing GC. At least they left the leaderboards intact on a game by game basis - it's a really, really segmented form of what GC used to be. Better than absolutely nothing I guess.
I honestly never ever would have guessed that people would be upset by removing GC. The GC app sat in my "Misc" folder in between "Tips" and "Stocks." I guess I can kinda see from the comments what people miss, but I (a) have no GC friends and (b) never knew until three minutes ago that games without a GC icon could have achievements. I guess I have nothing of substance to say, as all of the arguments against removing it seem completely valid and reasonable to me -- I'm just registering sincere shock that what I almost literally never gave a moment's thought to was SO important to SO many people. I kinda want to try it out now to see what I've been missing, but... I guess I kinda missed the boat on that one, didn't I?
People I am still very sad because of the Gamecenter debacle, only thing that could sheer me up is another hit like we had in the old days with Cut the Rope, Angry Birds but than something very new and fresh.
For me, removing the GC app takes a lot of the fun out of the ecosystem. I used to periodically browse what games my friends were playing because it's fun to try the same games and have something to talk about. One of the primary reasons I stuck with iOS after switching from Android was that most of my adult friends that play games had iPhones and we would all compare our scores. The Lightning connector (over USB-C) and the absurd cost of getting an extra 16GB of RAM are enormous pain points that I put up with because of the game selection and convenience of being in the same Game Center and iMessage ecosystem of my friends. Seriously considering switching back. Aside from the loss of comparing games with my friends, this change pretty much kills the fun of collecting achievements across a variety of games because there's no way to view all your old achievements, especially for games you've uninstalled. People have wondered if something like OpenFeint will come back. Actually, Android's Google Play Game Services (which is a copy of Game Center) is fully compatible with iOS. It would be nice if iOS developers start using it more now. It has the extra advantage of shared leaderboards and achievements between iOS and Android versions of a game.
Seeing what other Game Center friends are playing is something I use a lot (I'm still on iOS9) and stimulates me to download a lot of stuff (free and paid), and check out the TA forums for these games. I would miss that a lot so I'm not upgrading to iOS 10 for now. At least the GC app allows me to see what my friends that are on iOS 10 are playing; that still works Also, the app allows me to quickly check if I need to revisit a game because somebody passed me on the leaderboards (this does happen a lot recently LOL). The GC app facilitates seeing the games that my friends recently played. All this would become impossible on iOS 10. By the way, all the friend pictures in the app disappeared including my own, in fact a week or so before iOS 10 was released. It indeed seems that Apple wants to get rid of GC and implements the minimum possible which is needed to not break games that e.g. have an in-game GC button or reads global high-scores from GC. Other than that, Apple doesn't care Really an arrogant attitude especially considering how little or no justification is communicated. Or are we such a minority that no justification is needed? Are we just a group of 20 people who care and are easily ignored without a thought?
I was nearly in the same boat as you! Like you, I had dumped GC in a miscellaneous folder, and never opened it. I was actually signed out of it most of the time. If GC had been bumped off with iOS 8 or 9, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid. It actually wasn't until the last few months, when Sky Force Reloaded required GC friends to play the tournaments, that I started adding people and accepting requests - and I've really enjoyed it. It definitely adds some spice to your gaming, particularly if you are playing a high score chaser.
