I'm calling it: the Giant Bomb app for iPhone is now dead.
By Yanngc33 21 Comments
"It's a website about videogames...on your iPhone !" These kind words greet you after launching the official GB app on your iPhone. From there you could view news, videos, review, new releases and wiki pages. It was well made and easy to navigate, despite the video quality being horrible and some bugs with parsing your data. But people still loved it, the app letting you enjoy GB's dailey shenanigans on the go.
Sadly though, the app is now dead. Sure, you can still read news and look for wiki pages. But the video player seems to have been killed off. But we should have seen this coming. Jeff himself stated that the app was becoming pretty useless due to new technology, not bringing in any new income. Then the app went free (it used to be 2$) and started crashing often, especially during E3. Bugs started to appear, the app would often crash while you scrolled down to older videos. The release feature was also sort of messed up. All in all, it became more and more janky.
And thenthe news about a mobile site (m.giantbomb.com for members only) hit and that was the death sentence, my most used app became obsolete. The video player decided to die on me and the app lost all its appeal. But when you think about, this had to happen. What's one of the best features of the membership ? The mobile site ! The only way Giant Bomb could push everyone towards the membership is by killing off the app. Why pay for a membership when you can download a free app that gives you all the videos and wiki pages you could want on the go ? So I say is goodbye app, you'll be missed and hello awesome mobile site !