{"id":492,"date":"2012-05-02T00:09:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T00:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492"},"modified":"2018-07-09T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T22:09:57","slug":"ios-rock-band-owners-get-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ios-rock-band-owners-get-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Band iOS to be Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rock_band_noticeWP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"290\" \/>MAY 2, 2012\u00a0<strong>\u25cf<\/strong> Owners of the Rock Band iOS version were notified in-game that the title will no longer be playable after May 31 when the servers would be turned off. A fuller explanation of the closure also appeared on the title&#8217;s online FAQ page. The next day EA announced the in-app message was issued in error. During the 24-hour period, it was reported that Apple&#8217;s App Store had begun issuing 100% refunds to purchasers of the 2009 game who complained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: One can imagine that there were quite a few complaints when Electronic Arts announced that an app that was sold for $4.99 to $9.99 would no longer be playable.\u00a0 Of course, there is still a question of whether it was an error or some major backpedaling.\u00a0 With Apple starting to issue 100% refunds we imagine that was a very strong incentive to reverse the policy.\u00a0 What we speculate is that online support for the game was being pulled but they worded it in a way that made it sound like the entire game would be unplayable.\u00a0 It is a big deal to support sophisticated online game play for a title and revenue from mobile games is still fairly small.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 2, 2012\u00a0\u25cf Owners of the Rock Band iOS version were notified in-game that the title will no longer be playable after May 31 when the servers would be turned off. A fuller explanation of the closure also appeared on the title&#8217;s online FAQ page. The next day EA announced the in-app message was issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,78],"tags":[55,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16424,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/16424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}