Apparently, because there are new mobile operating system versions on the way (Android 6.0 and iOS9 and 9.1), EA decided again to remove some of their games, because they decided to end support and not update their games to work properly on mobile devices.
Right now, there are two games that were removed:
Mass Effect Infiltrator and Dead Space iOS (Android version is still up)
https://help.ea.com/sg/article/ea-is-removing-mass-effect-infiltrator-from-app-stores/
Those two games on newer systems had sound issues -> the sound effects didn't play apart from several menu buttons, their graphics rendering, gameplay and performance was normal.
So far, EA in its history removed quite a lot of games from both iOS and Android Stores:
http://help.ea.com/za/article/some-ea-games-are-being-removed-from-the-app-store/
Personally, I am pissed. I bought these games not so long time ago and now I cannot get a refund (or can I?). I cannot play them on the same hardware but with newer OS, whereas on a console I can and on PC I mostly can (and even if I can't, the openness of the platform allows me to hack it enough to play).
So what do you think publishers should do in such situations? Remove the games forever, close the support and don't even answer questions, or should they allow selling them in broken state in the same way Steam does on PC (for example: compare two versions of Dark Forces 2 on Steam and GoG, one is broken, the second one isn't).
Remove me if old.
Right now, there are two games that were removed:
Mass Effect Infiltrator and Dead Space iOS (Android version is still up)
https://help.ea.com/sg/article/ea-is-removing-mass-effect-infiltrator-from-app-stores/
Those two games on newer systems had sound issues -> the sound effects didn't play apart from several menu buttons, their graphics rendering, gameplay and performance was normal.
So far, EA in its history removed quite a lot of games from both iOS and Android Stores:
http://help.ea.com/za/article/some-ea-games-are-being-removed-from-the-app-store/
Personally, I am pissed. I bought these games not so long time ago and now I cannot get a refund (or can I?). I cannot play them on the same hardware but with newer OS, whereas on a console I can and on PC I mostly can (and even if I can't, the openness of the platform allows me to hack it enough to play).
So what do you think publishers should do in such situations? Remove the games forever, close the support and don't even answer questions, or should they allow selling them in broken state in the same way Steam does on PC (for example: compare two versions of Dark Forces 2 on Steam and GoG, one is broken, the second one isn't).
Remove me if old.