Hello me again. I go to my VO google play page were u can download the game.i like to read the reviews and laugh. Im sure you devs are used to catching flak like all devs do from critics. I havnt left a review because on some apps it messed my phone up. I just dont do it. But now i want to regardless what happens. But what im saying is if any new pilots or would be pilots can or havent yet left a review do it. What i see when i go to google play on my phone is a 3 and half star rating and the people that tried it are all hitting the same wall. Hard to understand tutorial which we all no u just have to read it and your fine really. Theres some saying the community sucks to. Some have the problem were they just cant download. Well that sucks. So anyway if its possible for you to leave a review and rating do it so we can see more happy newbs that FAMY can torture. It will also help with the people that read reviews and ratings before hand like me. I dont have wi fi so i stream vO. I take the review into play and rating alot. Im just glad this game was more enticing then others opinions. Thanks

FYI that we do read the Play Store reviews, and we are actively fixing (and have recently fixed) a number of reported issues on there, and are continuing to do so.

However, there is a really big problem with our reviews on the Play Store that have nothing to do with us:

- Android devices often have stability issues, and are poorly supported by their phone carriers and OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), who honestly would rather you just purchased a new phone instead of having to spend their money rolling out driver-fixes and OS updates to your existing phone. A large percentage of user complaints about game crashes, stalls, and particularly cases where it actually bombs the device.. have nothing whatsoever to do with us, in terms of our actual software stability or functionality. But, we are one of a very limited number of apps for Android that actually pushes the hardware hard enough to expose issues that would otherwise remain hidden. Thus, Vendetta Online makes people's phones overheat, or crash and reboot, or display problems with the older drivers on their devices. If the person uses their phone constantly, playing Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds and whatever random seemingly-intensive Gameloft game, and all is well.. and then they run Vendetta Online and that makes their phone crash and reboot, they are inclined to blame us on the face of what they're observing.

Most recently, this occurred when a famous Tegra 3 device, which should have been one of our most stable (and historically has been), released a version of Android 4.0 that included a serious memory leak in their OpenGL ES drivers. Immediately after, we get a ton of bad reviews. Is there anything we could possibly do, besides.. removing the game from the Play Store? No. We just have to ride it out and hope that eventually future people will like the game enough to salvage our ratings.

It should be noted that these stability issues aren't inherently a problem with Android, these issues can arise anywhere, and these devices are quite complex. The problem is simply that there are a great many cooks who create the respective devices (ODM who designs and often builds it, OEM who ships it, carrier who buys and must support and update it), most of whom have little or no motivation to really care about the given device once it is in the consumer's hands. There may be some vague sense of brand loyalty and such, but generally phone users just buy devices that their carrier provides, so the only real "loyalty" is between the OEM and the carrier.

Also, it should be noted that, unlike the PC where the user can be told to "upgrade their video drivers", Android users have realistically very few options when it comes to fixing things themselves. If an official update is not cooked up by their OEM and shipped to them by their carrier, they will probably never be able to fix their device, even if from a hardware standpoint the device is perfectly fine, and simply needing firmware or driver update that would improve device stability and performance (as far as I can tell, this is usually true).

As a result of all of thise, at the present time, the only Android phones that I personally recommend people buy, are those produced directly by Google as their own internal "Google Experience Devices". This is the Nexus family of devices, which as Google's own demonstration devices, will constantly receive updates on a regular basis until the device truly becomes too old and slow to reasonably support (which is years longer than most of the other OEMs).

Well...i wrote a big response and decided not to post it. You guys are busy enough. Ill keep doing my best to help the noob that puts on ch 1"it wont let me accept a mission" or the classic "how do i leave the station". Thanks Inc for taking the time...and thanks for the great game. I bought halo 4 and just watched the beginning tried some weapons then turned VO back on..:) maybe u guys can get a trusted vet or a plug maker to remake the tut for android. Just an opinion. And thanks again.

The training mission text is different in places for mobile device users, in case anyone is interested.

And from reports, Training 2 still needs to be updated.

Yes, the training missions need to be updated. This and other related work is currently in process.

Im gonna put this up as another thread but while this one is still being looked at...ok so i live in a decent sized town right off the i5. The i 5 for those who dont know is a very very long highway stretching from canada to mexico. My town is busy. A fellow about 8 to 10 yrs ago maybe less opened a video game/movie resale store. Well he became successful. I talk to this fellow sometimes when hes at his business. I would say the name of the. business but i will ask him first before i post again. He is doing better than gamestop in our town. Anyways he holds halo tourneys magic..etc..pretty much anything that requires a group of nerds to play he host and has prizes and what not. Well im pretty positive he would let me put a poster or flyers on his counter advertising VO. If VO were to be shown off properly in this business i believe there would be a substantial hike in client downloads. And im not talking about drawing a cheesy poster or pamphlet and photo copying it 100 times and asking him to promote a game like a back porch concert. If he is alright with it and if you are alright with it i would take the inishative myself and professionally advertise VO with decent materials. If you had a pamphlet that is folded 3 ways made of decent material covered in legible information about the game front and back. Like how the game is so big...and how you se the Newtonian physics and little things like weight in a ship affects u big time. Or the real live pirats and the conquerable stations and the guild and manufacturing huge ships. You guys have a great game and i can not believe ive never heard of it until a month ago. I want to see more players and I'm sure you do. I no this is a very long shot and im sure theres ten million reasons; on why its a bad idea. I was just thinking: that if Vo was to be seen when you walk into this place how many people would sign up. The guy is really cool and has struggled thru the years of recession like we all have and he understands. It would bring him more business and you to. On a busy day u cant walk in this store without bumpin elbows. And its pretty big now. Thanks for your time and i no this is an extreme longshot. I just want to help its in my nature.

Dude. They've got this cool new thing nowadays; it's called the "Paragraph". You should try some.

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