Add IAP to an already published app , do i need to make 2 updates?
POM
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Hey all ,
Since iv'e waited for IAP for long time now , i was planning ahead what I'm going to do once we get it .
Now its out , and i need your help with achieving this :
Guess you already familiar with my game : The Loonimals Toy Box
Now in this game i have 8 mini games , that once you purchase the game you can access all of them .
What i want to do is to make this toy-box free - give 3 free games in it , and letting the costumer to choose to buy more mini games for 1$
Or the whole set for 3$
Now , here is the problem :
Doing this should not be a problem if its a new game , but since this game is out for nearly a year now , i can't ignore the vast amount of people that already purchased it , and suddenly block games in their copy and ask them to pay again .
My first thinking was , to make a silent update with 8 booleans that will make the already paid costumers to update their app status to "all games open" meaning all 8 booleans to true and save , then , a week after to make another update with the IAP function in it , therefore the previous costumers will not get hurt by the new IAP process cause all their games in the box are set to "unlock" due to the previous update .
IS THAT MAKE ANY SENSE ?!
But then i decided , before i complicate things up with 2 updates maybe someone has a better solution of doing this..
My alternative thinking was , if the game was purchased before -> it means someone played it -> that means they earned stars -> is it good to make a "one time check" in the begging of the game and if the "STARS" attribute was grater than 0 that means the game has been played before so unlock all mini games , and if "STARS" = 0 , then don't ?
What do you think ?
Roy.
Since iv'e waited for IAP for long time now , i was planning ahead what I'm going to do once we get it .
Now its out , and i need your help with achieving this :
Guess you already familiar with my game : The Loonimals Toy Box
Now in this game i have 8 mini games , that once you purchase the game you can access all of them .
What i want to do is to make this toy-box free - give 3 free games in it , and letting the costumer to choose to buy more mini games for 1$
Or the whole set for 3$
Now , here is the problem :
Doing this should not be a problem if its a new game , but since this game is out for nearly a year now , i can't ignore the vast amount of people that already purchased it , and suddenly block games in their copy and ask them to pay again .
My first thinking was , to make a silent update with 8 booleans that will make the already paid costumers to update their app status to "all games open" meaning all 8 booleans to true and save , then , a week after to make another update with the IAP function in it , therefore the previous costumers will not get hurt by the new IAP process cause all their games in the box are set to "unlock" due to the previous update .
IS THAT MAKE ANY SENSE ?!
But then i decided , before i complicate things up with 2 updates maybe someone has a better solution of doing this..
My alternative thinking was , if the game was purchased before -> it means someone played it -> that means they earned stars -> is it good to make a "one time check" in the begging of the game and if the "STARS" attribute was grater than 0 that means the game has been played before so unlock all mini games , and if "STARS" = 0 , then don't ?
What do you think ?
Roy.
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If you come up with difficulties it can bring that you didn't noticed yet please let me know !
Thank you
Roy.
Thank you for your comment
Hmm... interesting , i never thought of going that path ,
I would love to hear more opinions about this option , what do you guys think? should i make a new -FREE(with IAP)- version like greenrhyno suggested?
Or update the current one to free with IAP ?
Roy.
If the hi-score is >0 set a boolean for something like "previous owner" to true. if it's 0 or less, set it to false.
Then do the IAP fist time run stuff only if that boolean is false
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Make sense? That way the IAP stuff only kicks in if someone has a hi-score of 0 .. i.e. has never played the game. That should catch 99.9% of your previous owners I think.
But I agree that a new and free version would be good for simplicity. And then you get a downloads spike as a new release too.
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