{"id":13903,"date":"2016-03-18T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13903"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:14:31","slug":"game-center-is-still-broken-after-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/18\/game-center-is-still-broken-after-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Center Is Still Broken After Six Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Grannell<\/a> (via Josh Centers<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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When iOS 9 hit beta last summer, I heard concerns from developers about Game Center. Never Apple’s most-loved app, it had seemingly fallen into a state of disrepair. In many cases, people were reporting it outright failed to work.<\/p>\n

Six months later, little has changed. If anything, Game Center has gotten worse, with major problems increasingly widespread. These include the Game Center app launching as a white screen, and Game Center freezing the Settings app when you try to access its options.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As Grannell points out, this doesn’t just affect leaderboards — Game Centre is the<\/em> underlying architecture for many turn-based games in the App Store.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’ve also come across this problem and heard about it from MacStories readers and game developers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The TouchArcade forum has a thread<\/a> about this with 575 posts.<\/p>\n

See also: lots of snarky comments<\/a> about driving Game Center over to Craig’s house<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update (2016-03-18): Rene Ritchie<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lack of a core built-in iOS app using it has always been extremely concerning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Craig<\/a> Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n

They even had a game that could have used Game Center, but it got pulled instead<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why would you want to dogfood an app in the most popular category in your App Store?<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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