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Game subcategories on the App Store broken

Something is very wrong with the App Store. Checking the featured apps for each subcategory of games, the What’s New and What’s Hot sections of each are, basically, whatever’s right at the top of an alphanumerically-sorted list. Each of these sections is also identical within each subcategory. This is the case both on iTunes itself and the App Store on my iGear. On top of that, the categorisation has been left to fester. The sheer number of lazy Threes and Flappy Bird clones that have been allowed to infest every corner of the App Store like Zerg Creep is obscene - thankfully less of the latter now (at one point as many as 90% of the twenty Whats New games listed were Flappy This or Flappy That!), but still way too many.

Check it out:


Action:

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Arcade:

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Dice:

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Family:

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Music:

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Puzzle:

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Strategy:

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Trivia:

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Word (What the smeg are THREES clones doing in the WORD category?!)

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MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Late 2008 2.4GHz model, 4GB memory

Posted on Nov 3, 2014 11:58 AM

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Nov 16, 2014 6:29 PM in response to morisato-k1

I reported this to Apple developer support back in early October, it has been this way since then. : Here is the response I received:


Hello,



We are investigating the issue regarding the Games subcategories in the App Store. Case number 20741006 has been filed for this investigation.



We will let you know once we have any updates or additional information with regard to this issue. Please be sure to reference the case number listed above for any follow up emails. Thank you in advance for your patience in this matter.


Best regards,


Ben

App Store Developer Support Escalation Team


I have neard nothing from Apple since.

Game subcategories on the App Store broken

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