Everyone who had a PC in the 90s remembers this wonderful video game car racing in three dimensions, where the goal in addition to get first, is run over pedestrians. Today we received the news that Carmaggedon becomes free , but now shows ads during the load and if that was not enough, with the latest update have introduced a multitude of problems that prevent its proper functioning.
The news has special interest for two reasons, the first to analyze how developers change their model of application monetization and secondly, what is this update for those who bought Carmaggedon when it was paid .
When a developer decides to offer their application in Play Store as free, it can be for three reasons:
Unfortunately, what usually happens is the last of the reasons, and when we are going to install that application that was previously paid in Play Store and now we find it for free, as a general rule we find ads to all.
But the real losers are those users who have trusted the developer from the start and have purchased the application at the time. Now they come across an application they have paid for full of ads and it is too late to claim a refund.
The comments of Play Store have not been slow in filling with scores of a star and mass complaints of users who can not play this classic on their Android devices. Suddenly, the company that owns Carmaggendon, Stainless Games Ltd, sent a message saying that they were working to solve the problems as soon as possible.
Everything that happened with Carmaggedon leads us to think that perhaps it would be a good idea for Google to implement guidelines in the Google Play Store to guarantee reimbursement in these situations.
Source: Carmaggedon on Play Store
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