Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27798333-20160914100436/@comment-28753807-20160914144221

I had difficulty with this ad. I'm not sure what I did to make it work, but I was able to catch some baseballs and newspapers, then the X worked. I think I tapped on the screen to start the game, the stuff started falling. I think at that point, all that is needed is to wait the time.

I remember back, many years ago, when pc's first roamed the prarie and the only hand-held devices we had were hairdryers and curling irons, I sat next to a guy who worked for IBM. I asked him, since IBM was the 'big boy' in the computer market, why weren't they dominating the PC market? His answer was, we have many different platforms and we have to make sure whatever we put on our PC will work on all of our platforms. It made some sense.

It also makes sense to me that every software developer doesn't have the resources to test their new stuff on all the different hand-held devices that run their app. It would take a lot of time. So, Android, Apple, other hand held OS's, and all the diffferent bits of hardware that they run on do not conform to some standard, so a developer doesn't have the luxury of just programming, say, a new ad, to that standard, with the confidence it will work on everything that the app works on.

I'm sure they are frustrated when there are bugs in their ads, maybe more than we are, because their livelihood depends on that ad running. Our claim to their ads working - and providing what they promise, either gold, faster repairs or gauntlet tickes - depends on our ability to view such ads. If one thinks about it, both parties, us as players and them as app developers have a lot of reason for those things to go well. I don't see it as something FM does to me. I don't think they are slip-shod about their work. It seems to me it is difficult to be on the bleeding edge of technology. You want your insurance 'catch the stuff' game to work on everything and you put it out there after having tested it on your representative devices that should cover the vast majority of the devices the app is installed on, but I don't see how they can do something new like this ad without there being some issues, somewhere in the world.