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July 25, 2020 at 10:15 pm #1553262

limburger

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the AoS app has zero content … until you pay for stuff.
And even if you do own the books you need to pay again to unlock the digital equivalents.

You’d think that all GW would have to do is change the resources used.
It doesn’t even use Google drive to share the core rules (which are free for 40k as well!)

It should have been easy.
The only tricky bits that are excluded are :
(1) a subscription model to access all content instead of paying a single fee for access to partial content
(2) a method of unlocking content based on some sort of unique identifier from a physical book

IMHO this can only mean one thing : the app was developed by a different company.

And errors like unit names … for something like this ?
I mean, yes it is a lot of data, but GW should have that sort of data in a single master vault as they need it when updating their point values anyway (unless they don’t … which may help explain why the balance is lacking … ).
I get the impression that they had to manually scan & copy the individual books … heck, they even might have hired a few cheap monkeys to copy them by hand. There is no reason for having the kind of spelling mistakes.
Missing images is the only thing I can understand, because even the codexes don’t always have an image for every unit (which sucks … ).

The less said about the restricted and useless results in their search engine the better, because that is just pathetic.