When I saw Real Solitaire HD Free in the Apple App Store I was excited. I’d been looking for a while for an iPad solitaire of high quality. I was doubly excited when it was a FREE application!
Real Solitaire HD Free had graphics, sound and realism that rival even the best PC or Mac based solitaire games… at a cost of zero! However, that free came with a hitch that I found to be unacceptable.
Real Solitaire HD Free has an ad banner at the bottom of the screen. That ad banner is ginourmous. That ad banner is intrusive. That ad banner seem designed to make you accidentally click on it when moving your cards, since your cards will cover the banner after just a few deep.
If that weren’t enough, the banner continually advertises for you to upgrade to the full version. If even that weren’t enough each and every menu of the game asks you to upgrade to the full version!
If the authors of this game hadn’t went out of their way to push the full version on me, and just let me enjoy the demo I would be the owner of Real Solitaire HD paid. But they lost me as a customer, because if they pulled this on me as a trial user what will they do with the full version? Hijack it to sell me another paid app? No thanks.
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Link to iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/real-solitaire-free-for-ipad/id373942073?mt=8
Link to Publisher: http://www.edgerift.com/realsolitaire/
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