Rhythm Thief for iOS is getting shut down soon

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1. I had the demo for rhythm thief 3DS. The first level was really fun, but the next level concerned knowledge of colors and I’m partially color blind so that didn’t work out well. The last level was pretty difficult but passable. I had a good time with the demo, but I didn’t feel the game was for me.
   As for this mobile stuff however, I think it points out a severe flaw in the mobile game market strategy. With all these updates constantly happening, the game can never catch up thus leading to it getting scrapped. Mobile is great for endless runners, but a quality game belongs on a handheld console. 3DS and PSVita are both great handhelds and I believe developers should look to those platforms to release their games on, not iOS or any other kind of phone/mobile device.

2. Uhh… IIRC I paid money for that at launch – it was like $15 here – so that really pisses me off. It pisses me off even more that there’s fuck all I can do about it.

   1. Yeah, I paid that much as well. If only I knew it would be free later.

3. I’ve had this on my phone for a while. Haven’t played it in some time, but I always wanted to go back to it, so I didn’t want to delete it. Guess that choice was made for me.
   Side note: I haven’t played Sonic Runners since the soft launch in Canada, and now it tells me I need to update the game and sends me to the App Store. But in the App Store, there’s no option to update; just “Open,” which begins the cycle anew.
   Is there any way to update the game without deleting it and downloading it again? Won’t doing that erase all my progress? If I have to start over, I’m not even interested in bothering.

   1. You have to open the app because updates are within the app after tapping the screen to start it up.
      That’s how it is for me anyways…and I’min the US.

   2. Do you have a second device? You could try using the transfer feature to trade over your data and then transfer it back to your main device after you redownload.

      1. Huh, weird — I told this thing to notify me of replies, but it never did.
         MM2: That’s what I did, though. I open the app, it takes me to the title, I tap to start, it automatically takes me to the App Store, but there’s no option to update. (I’m in Canada, no idea if that makes a difference. Of course, this was from the soft launch, so maybe?)
         Skai: Is the transfer feature part of the game or part of the iOS?

      2. Huh, weird; I left a comment here earlier…
         MM2: I did all of that; tapping the title screen automatically took me to the App Store, which then only had “Open,” and no option to upgrade. Tapping “Open” just started it all over again.
         Skai: How would I do that? Is that a game feature or an iOS level feature?

         1. The game has a built in data transfer feature that doesn’t use iOS iCloud service since your data is actually stored on Sega’s server, but you’ll need to have set this up ahead of time and set a password for your account, the game didn’t ship with this feature in the soft launch so many unfortunately never set it up , since you can’t get into the game to use this I don’t this will be helpful to you. Do you use iTunes you can try to update the app from there, download the app from iTunes and sync it to your iPhone it should update the app, the Canadian store should have the latest version 1.1.2 according to what I’m seeing on the CA iTunes preview page for Runners.

         2. SSJSonicXX14: Hm, I’ll give that a shot when I get a chance. Thanks!

4. Wow. I literally just got red hair dye the other day and realized I looked like Raphael so I put some glasses on and bam accidental cosplay.
   RIP Rhythm Thief, never had the success it deserved.

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