Wednesday, September 7, 2016

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.