Quality Maniac: World of Warcraft Legion App - Research Notification Spam Bug

I am so happy to get the Legion app, I mean honto no happy.

Its extremely convenient, in WoD I used to log in on my computer before going to work, so I could send followers / get followers back, pick up work orders etc. Queuing up new ones and so on.

This was quite tedious to always have to start the whole computer just for this, I play a lot of other games with similar retention design, for example Marvel Avengers Alliance (well until it closes down this month :() while MAA got the same kind of daily routine (just simpler) its a flash game. I can easily go into that for 1 minute once an hour kinda where ever as it runs on laptop etc. And of course it takes just a few second to start on an a good computer.

SO this Legion app is amazing, you can just use it while going to work, or quickly look at it for 1-2 mins every 2-4 hour and so on. Very, very efficient. Its actually kinda funny how its also makes the dam garrison/class gall be shit in comparison. I mean so much easier to use the app as you don¨'t have to walk in between the locations at the class hall is simpler to just always use the app.

However, it is kinda clunky on its UX at times and it cannot be used while logged to the game, which I see as a HUGE, really Huge drawback.


Anyway, the bug I have is really annoying, it happens to me pretty much every time I use the app, as long as I end using it on a character who have research going.

This is 100% Repro on my iphone 6s, 9.3.5

The steps are easy:

1. Research any class hall skill on character A
2. Minimize the app while being on character A
3. Observe that the app sends the notification of research being finished, this is also with a phone vibration.
4. Go to the phones main hub.
5. Observe that there is a red 1 notification - indicating something is done in the app, while it is not.

Basically every time I minimize the app to use another app and this is something I do with most apps. I will minimize them go to e.g turn on music and go back to it, or maybe I am playing a Hearthstone game while also doing legion class stuff so I go back and forth between these 2 apps to see if its my turn in HS.
 And every time I do this, I get the app sending me an notification and I want to say its noteworthy that it does it with vibration to so I can spam vibrate my phone.

This also gives me the standard red 1 that something is finished/returned in the app.
 If I minimize on e.g my shaman who has no research currently I get no notification when minimizing nor any red icon, so I can actually control if I want a fake notification to be in the main hub or not.

Minimize to closing will also trigger it e.g

So its brothers in Arms for my Death Knight.

Here its the actual time left:

Here I have managed to even get the notification while it clearly shows in the app that is not finished:

Here I have a notification icon but entering the app shows me that nothing is actually finished. 

(Edited out apps for ndas-_- NDA is actually topic I planned to do a video about for ages, as most people never read their dam contracts)

You can of course push it to the whole notification notice (and no I wish sliding it here would make it be instantly finished, would be a nice abuse)

I love this app but this thing is really starting to annoy me, now it feels like I can never trust if something is actually finished or not as it I know that I can manipulate If I leave a notification icon on the app or not. 

Marvel Avengers Alliance is closing down !!!

Wow here I am sitting and thinking about a recap for the latest pvp season which I guess now also is the last, it was filled with Faiza Hussiens and Cloak/Dagger. And suddenly I get the message that the game is closing down. - http://help.disney.com/en_US/Marvel

Wow I really did not expect this, I get that some of their games, most noticeable Marvel Avengers Tactics sucked incredible much and they canceled it, but MAA?

Classic Marvel Avengers Alliance has been their golden cow for a long time to my information, I am not surprised at all that they would close of the second (which is more like the third version) and the mobile platform.

Back a few years I was actually writing on a piece on why Tactics would be cancelled as it had so, many,many faults, TRPGs are one of my specialties so I was working on this long article about it and before I finished lol the game was canceled, I think that game was only up for like 2 weeks...

 So that game was just utter crap.


Than the Mobile game, why this is failing is obvious, they want you to start a new account. I can see that they would like you to pay twice the amount but not many people are gonna do this, it would likely give them more revenue if the mobile was just an extension of your FB account, MAA is definitely a game I could sit and play on the buss, doing some pvp fights, getting a boss etc. But no fucking way I will do it with a fresh new account when I already had like 100+ characters when the mobile version was released. Forcing the mobile to be a new account doomed it from the start.
 So instead of increasing their revenue from established users, they probably only got a very few of big whale spenders to buy in both, then I guess got a few new users, same account would likely instead have increased their revenue from a lot of established users, while probably getting no new users(more or less) and while they would not increase their total user I think that would be way better for them.

And of course it not just about money, the established users, would also be happy. I would be happy being able to play it on the move every now and than. Bad decision in both ways, make the established users angry and did not even go for the best money option.


That game is canceled no wonder.


Marvel Avengers Alliance 2, well mobile again, weird faults like tactics, so not actually supporting old users, not having actual good gameplay. Yeah insta death.


But yeah, I did think that MAA was save from being closed, so this really come as a shock. I had personal planned to record videos again following up on my character reviews but I probably will not spend my time doing that now.
 This definitely feels sad, Marvel Avengers Alliance has been a great JRPG type of game with some decent PvP gameplay and of course a lot of cool Marvel characters to play with, the game has used a great variation of characters from the marvel universe which really has been very fun to play with. Already from the start they had characters like jack o lantern etc.


Overall the game has been one of the most advanced Facebook games if not the most, so that is tragic as well that its ending.

For me I guess I will start writing/recording other games more like Hearthstone.

Thanks to all my readers and fans over the years.

Best Regards
/Myrmonden