Great magazine, bad app for puzzling
I love the magazine and the variety of puzzles and content however this thinly skinned version of the Zinio app misses the mark. The purpose of the magazine is to solve puzzles which requires entering data or writing on the pages. Neither of those is supported, you can only read. Best option is to screenshot a page and paste it into an app like Notes or Goodnotes where you can add annotations.
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Worthless
Unable to complete puzzles in app. It is view/read format only. Cancelled subscription immediately.
Can’t use
How is this app STILL not interactive. I periodically check back. But it’s still useless. It just needs to let you write and erase on top of the pages. Doesn’t seem that complicated. Can’t even download pages to open them in notes so I can do it. So frustrating.
Don’t buy
Would gladly pay if puzzles were interactive. App serves no purpose
Useless
The puzzles are not interactive. Very disappointing. I would gladly subscribe if I could work the puzzles electronically, but . . .. I only get this magazine for the puzzles, so for now, I’ll stick to the NYT and Telegraph games. Get with the game, Games Magazine!
DON’T BUY!
How do I get my money back??? After years of trusting that Games Magazine puts out a quality product, they have the nerve to put out this nonsense. The description should have a disclaimer: this app is NOT interactive.
DEPLORABLE
Hoping I’d found games magazine,
All this app does is offer to sell you issues,
Then makes them non-interactive!!
FRAUD!!!
All this app does is offer to sell you issues,
Then makes them non-interactive!!
FRAUD!!!
Misleading
Total waste of money!
Quite Puzzling
How can a magazine with such a great reputation , put out an app that is 1-difficult to access and 2- produce a non-interactive app. So glad I only wasted money on one month!
Really?
For so many years this has been my favorite game puzzle mag, but honestly, if the app is just screen caps of the mag WHAT is the 5+ bucks for? I have never been as let down. ):
SHAMEFUL
As a years-long previous subscriber to Games, I was genuinely excited by the ability to enjoy the magazine in digital and interactive form. Unfortunately, this app is utterly useless and exponentially WORSE than the magazine itself; it is basically screen shots of the physical magazine WITHOUT any interactivity whatsoever, so you're better off buying the physical magazine where at least you'll have the ability to use a pencil when trying to solve the puzzles. The creators of this waste of time and device memory should refund my -- and everyone's -- money. When your readers' user experience is better on paper using a pencil than tapping into the benefits of 21st Century technology, then your app should never have been made. At the very least, you should update the description to include the following disclaimer on which future potential victims should be required to say Yes before being charged:
NOTE: THIS APP IS ***NOT*** INTERACTIVE, AND IS MERELY SCREEN SHOTS FROM THE PHYSICAL MAGAZINE. IF YOU WANT TO TRY TO SOLVE THE PUZZLES, THEN DO NOT BUY THIS APP, AND INSTEAD PURCHASE THE PHYSICAL MAGAZINE. DO YOU STILL WANT TO PURCHASE THIS APP?
NOTE: THIS APP IS ***NOT*** INTERACTIVE, AND IS MERELY SCREEN SHOTS FROM THE PHYSICAL MAGAZINE. IF YOU WANT TO TRY TO SOLVE THE PUZZLES, THEN DO NOT BUY THIS APP, AND INSTEAD PURCHASE THE PHYSICAL MAGAZINE. DO YOU STILL WANT TO PURCHASE THIS APP?
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Wasted potential
This really should be a interactive app. Treating it like regular magazine is just lazy. Go buy the newsstand version, until someone wises up.
Games world of puzzles
Cannot enter answers on iPad. Need to print puzzle. Defeats purpose of downloading.
