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Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable'

Posted by timothy on from the unsung-is-an-odd-word-there dept.

mr100percent writes with this excerpt from Electronista: "Battleheart's creator Mika Mobile in an update explained that it was dropping Android support. Google's platform was losing money for the company, since it spent about 20 percent of its time supporting the platform but only ever made five percent or less of the company's revenue. Much of the effort was spent on issues specific to Android, where the diversity was only creating problems rather than helping. 'I would have preferred spending that time on more content for you, but instead I was thanklessly modifying shaders and texture formats to work on different GPUs, or pushing out patches to support new devices without crashing, or walking someone through how to fix an installation that wouldn't go through,' one half of the husband and wife duo said. 'We spent thousands on various test hardware. These are the unsung necessities of offering our apps on Android.'"

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  1. Wah wah wah by fnj · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    [sound of violins]

    Too bad you had to actually do work to develop and support your app.

  2. Re:Seems to be common by symbolset · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are three hundred million Android devices in the field, adding almost a million more every single day. If you can't profitably sell your application into that base, it's your problem.

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  3. Re:Who can blame them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How about you face the fact that the game was a shitty port that didn't sell well so rather than fix the game e and make money the guy blames the platform. Its as simple as that.

  4. Re:Sounds fair enough by binarylarry · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Only on Slashdot would such a moronic post get modded up.

    Basically your stupid ass just said "The real problem lies with writing GPU powered software on these GPU powered devices."

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  5. Re:Who can blame them? by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You don't actually have the first clue of what you're talking about do you. You've never developed so much as a Hello World app in your life.

  6. Re:Sad but true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    On Android and BB, there are as many display sizes and feature sets as there are devices.

    I know, right!? Having choice is so annoying!

    Why can't companies just tell me what I need and be done with it?