Sega announced in a post on its blog this evening that it is going to remove a number of games from its catalog of apps on the App Store. Sega says that a number of its games on the App Store no longer meet its “high-quality†standards. Sega will also remove the games from the Google Play Store, the Samsung App Store and the Amazon App Store.
Sega says that if you purchased one of the games that it is removing from the App Store, you will still be able to play it on your device and that it will remain in the purchased apps section of the App Store for future download on any of your devices.
While Sega did not specify which games it will be removing from the App Store over the coming weeks, it did note that a few of them may return eventually in an “updated form.†Again, specific titles were not mentioned in the company’s blog post.
At SEGA we are committed to making fun, high-quality mobile games and it is with our fans’ best playing experience in mind that we announce the removal of a number of games from our back catalogue. It is important for us to ensure that all of our fans, regardless of platform or operating system, have a great playing experience and after evaluating our complete list of titles, we have determined that a number of them no longer meet our standards. As a result, we will be removing these titles from the App Store for Apple devices, the Google Play Store, the Samsung App Store and the Amazon App Store over the next few weeks. While we have nothing to announce at this time, given the right situation, these titles may return in an updated form.You can view Sega’s catalog of App Store offerings here. Apps will begin being removed over the coming weeks.
Apple begins enforcing rule requiring App Store screenshots and icons to meet 4+ rating standard
Opinion: Could there be method in Apple’s apparent madness in removing freebies?
For one example, Resident Evil 4 is available for download on the App Store, but it’s last update was October 11, 2011. That is completely unacceptable. They didn’t update the app, but they updated the description which says ‘Important Notice:
Functionality is not guaranteed on devices that are updated to iOS 8.’
That shouldn’t be allowed to remain on the App Store.
Leave the older titles up but make it specific exactly what devices as well as what software it works with.
If a developer chooses not to update their app, and customers decide the UI is crap, then they are quite welcome to use a different app.
As stated, while I don’t fall into that bucket, many people preferred iOS 6 to iOS 7’s design. That and I fail to see why it’s ok for Google to deviate from the design guidelines, while it’s not ok for an App to use the previous Apple guidelines. In both cases they aren’t conforming to Apple’s current design language…but at least one did conform in the past. Seems purely down to personal choice, and as above, you’re welcome to use an alternative application.
The simple fact is, Apple should enforce this. Instead, they don’t want to lose the ability to say they have 1.5 million apps, leaving out the fact that 99% are redundant, garbage, or no longer updated by their developers.
The App Store should be focused on quality, not quantity at this point. Apple should be selling the fact that they have the best apps, not the most apps. They should be selling that the apps on the App Store are kept up to date, and relevant.
Are most of the new reviews one stars? Re-review the app and remove it if it doesn’t work.
Apple should just show how compatible they are, like do they only support iPhone 4 resolution? Say it.
but i was charged for midway games like gauntlet , etc that i could not download. i got a refund from apple and had to wait for an iOS 8 version to come out and then repurchase the games