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Edge magazine App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ PDF scanned version of the magazine. AvoidFor a year or two it was a glorious interactive edition of the print magazine (similar to Wired which is excellent). It's since reverted back to a scanned version of the magazine. It's really hard to read since you have to zoom in and scroll around. Just stick with the print magazine, it's easier to read! Maybe sales weren't good or they were worried people were no longer buying the printed edition anymore, who knows. I know that I cancelled my subscription though, plenty of better digital magazines out there... Shame, since the writing is good but I don't want to be throwing away paper magazines every month or have them piling up in my house..Version: 4.8
✓ Beware, try interactive version firstI subscribed for a year just before the interactive changes were revealed. Now I regret it, the older print style is way more to my taste (particularly the much smaller font). But it turns out there is no way to cancel a subscription in progress, and get a refund. Zinio still has the print style, so consider whether you prefer that. Steve.Version: 2.0
✓ What have they done!I used to absolutely love reading this mag on my iPad. The written sections were scrollable which meant that the size of the text was not held back by the size of the page. Now the text is soooo small that I can hardly read it and I have 20/20 vision. Whereas it used to feel like you were reading a truly interactive version of the mag now it is like they have just scanned in the pages. I feel totally cheated as I have just renewed my subscription. Please understand that this moan has nothing to do with the writing itself the guys and gals at Edge do a fantastic job of the mag itself. But the digital version should not have been changed..Version: 4.4.1
✓ Nothing specialFuture Plc are very lazy when it comes to the digital versions of their magazines. Other publications do a better job and are cheaper! No interaction beyond turning pages; no bookmarking; table of contents does not take you to a particular article. Come on Future, you are one of the biggest magazine publishers, you should be doing much better than this. And please, do something about your pricing, this mag not too bad, but the others? At £4.99 you are just ripping us off! Not tied into paper subscriptions and none of the content from the cover CDs, appalling..Version: 1.0
✓ Free trial isn’t workingFree trial doesn’t work. You’re supposed to get the latest subscriptions with the trial, however, it still prompts you to buy every issue. Future needs to fix this..Version: 6.0.6
✓ DisappointingMy review from earlier in the apps history: Enjoyed the new interactive sampler. Much better than the vanilla edition. Bit of a shame that the July edition I downloaded earlier is back to the same old photocopy of the hard copy format. What happened to the interactivity? Also, like other users, the last issues cover was replaced with an advert. Very poor. Since then the interactive editions have been great. However, the app can be a mare. It mostly won't auto download. There have been a couple of occasions when once downloaded the magazine wouldn't open. I've even had to delete the app and then re-download all my back issues. This month was the first time everything has worked properly. Hope this carries on in the future..Version: 3.6
✓ Just plain shabbyA magazine that once set the standard, not just in video gaming mags but for magazine production in general. Progressively that was chipped away, beginning with the resizing of the paper version and the insertion of standard magazine ads that disrupted the astonishing design of those earlier issues. It seemed to redeem itself with the iPad version, though only if you could afford to upgrade your iPad to keep pace with the increasing memory demands that occurred through the life of a subscription. I unsubscribed then I recall because I thought that pretty uncaring. Now I have an iPad Air and there is this great leap backwards into iPad one territory. No prior news. No apology. The magazine has a loyal following. The print in the paper version is too small. In this pdf version it is even worse. I guess we just get sucked into thinking that Apple and Edge are more than just companies after our money but this is also very Apple-like behaviour as anyone who uses a MacBook knows. One minute you have a fully functioning word processor the next you have a iPad app on a laptop! Well, Edge is cancelled and when the MacBook dies I'll go back to the PC..Version: 4.4
✓ Dishonored?Great magazine but why is the cover of the latest issue taken up by an advertisement? I want to be able to look back at all my past issues and remember what is in them by looking at the front cover. Is the front of the print version taken up by an ad?.Version: 2.0
✓ PoorThis may be a great magazine in print, but the transition to iPad has not been done well. This is basically a series of jpeg's of the magazine with little thought given to us poor souls having to read it..Version: 1.0
✓ Good app, missing one big featurePlease add support for the (big) iPad Pro. Considering that most issues are PDF dumps, there's no reason to limit the resolution to a standard iPad..Version: 4.9.1
✓ Barely better than reading a PDFThis app has none of the interactivity and user friendliness as other newsstand mags such as the new Yorker or wired. It needs to accommodate both landscape and portrait modes intuitively. Why do I need to keep scrolling and zooming just to read a page. What edge did was to only transfer their printed mag into an electronic format, and therefore made the transition without little thought as to user interface. Too bad egmi is not available on the iOS newsstand yet. Now that is how it should be done..Version: 1.0
✓ Wonderful Mag; Awful AppEdge is by far the best printed computer and video game magazine. It's reviews and features are mature, intelligent, and thoughtful. This app, though, is horrible. It's a pain to download issues. They will get to 100% and hang. I have had to delete and reinstall multiple times. The animations slow down the reading experience once it does actually install. When my sub expires, I will be switching to a different format..Version: 3.8.3
✓ Don't updateApp is currently broke. Old app on my phone works updated on iPad and cannot download new issue with current subscription. App recognizes I'm subscribed yet let's me purchase newest issue anyways. Multiple emails and phone calls, no help. Happens with my pc gamer subscription as well. A real bummer.Version: 3.6
✓ Still not a proper magazine/news appThis app just shows the magazine articles and pages in their original format as they appear in the magazine. In a proper news app or website such as that of The Economist the text and pictures of the articles are formatted for the screen size. The Edge app at present is basically just giving you a PDF of the magazine. It also lacks a proper article navigation menu like that in the Economist app. Very disappointing..Version: 5.2.3
✓ Same problem every time a new issue is outI took out a full yearly subscription, but every month I have to delete and reinstall in order to be able to download the latest issue. Otherwise it will quite happily take £4.99 from me again without the option to download the latest issue. Do yourself a favour and buy the print version instead with none of this hassle.Version: 6.0.6
✓ Terrible UXFailed to download an issue 3-4 times with no reason (counter restarted back to 0%). After 2hrs of trying to download an issue it finally completes to tell me it can only be viewed on an iPad despite saying the app is universal. What's the point in letting me even run the app on an iPhone if I can't read any of the issues downloaded with it? Cancelling subscription..Version: 3.6.5
✓ Constantly having problems with having to buy new issues with active subscriptionHave an active subscription, checked it’s valid for several more months, sometimes I go into get the new issue this month and it hasn’t added to my catalogue and the only option is to buy it for £4.99. No idea why because it used to work fine and has happened several months now but had issues that are claimable in between. Sick of missing out on issues because of this problem.Version: 6.0.6
✓ Subscribe with cautionThis is the publisher of Nintendo Gamer, which was cancelled part way through my 12 month subscription. I am having great trouble getting any refund or credit for outstanding issues. ITunes refuse credits and the publisher has not answered any emails on the matter. Be aware of this before buying a subscription..Version: 2.1
✓ I'm goneI'm permanently unsubscribing from this because it's unreadable. The magazine is great, but on the iPhone it's too irritating to have to keep zooming and panning around. Make it a better format for the iPhone! Also the automatic downloads don't work properly on the iPad and it just takes forever! I have a very fast internet connection but every time I want to read it I have to wait for HOURS before it's ready. Embedded videos are good but I could do without the other stuff that bloats the download size..Version: 3.2.2
✓ More annoying than anythingThe interactive issue could be amazing and and the effort certainly is appreciated but I can't help but find it extremely irritating! There is still too much superfluous animation that after awhile I start getting very frustrated and inside I am screaming 'I JUST WANT TO READ THE MAGAZINE!' I usually give up. Other issues for me... The size of the interactive issues are just too big. I can only hold 1-2 issues before my ipad is choking. I use iTunes Match and don't have very many photos etc so see myself as an average user but I am finding I will really need a larger ipad to accommodate EDGE. The other problem with the increase in issue size is the amount of time it now takes to download an issue. I have an average but ok connection of 8mbps but it takes ages to download an issue. I just wish there was an option to download the original basic style of issue which suited my needs perfectly. Hi-res but small, quick and simple...perfect. Or....failing this an option to turn off all the animation and maybe more compression of the issue size. Don't get me wrong I appreciate the 'interactive' extras but only when they add something..Version: 2.2.5
✓ Won't be renewing subscription.As others have said, this is not a review of the content of the magazine; which I always enjoy reading even if I don't agree with the view points. This is a review of the app, it's sadly a retrograde step and has gone back to PDFs. This for me is slower, less interesting and less interactive. I don't want to 'turn a page' to be presented with some blocking text which slowly renders, I also don't want to have to pan and zoom to be able to read an article. My subscription expires this month, I will not be renewing; contacted customer support about the PDF thing and received no response from Future Publishing either (the App team did respond but only to say they'd passed on my comments)..Version: 4.4.1
✓ App is brokenI cannot read the magazine on my iPad. The magazine is downloaded but I cannot open it. I tried the actions recommended in the support section without success. I sent an email to Future. No answer. I have the same problem with other Future magazines. Obviously there is something wrong the way they publish their magazines digitally..Version: 3.6
✓ It's okI like some of the stories, but they are clearly subjective and they lean to Sony , I own both MS and Sony and the MS bashing is getting old. The app works ok, some minor freezes when turning the pages and I often have to delete and re-download the app to get it to work again. But, make no mistake, it's a great looking e- magazine when it work properly..Version: 3.6
✓ An app not a magazineUnsurprisingly (and disappointingly) Edge have gone down the device-specific app route, rather than an MP3/e-book route. Which, to be fair, is necessary for what they're trying to achieve. Edge is a fantastic magazine, nothing against the content or the layout. But with the app, they've tried to enhance the reading experience with nonsense like pointless (and extremely annoying) animated transitions between pages and background noises (singing magazines are so cool on the train). To solve the layout issues on a smaller screen, there's lots of popup text boxes and small scrolling regions leading to more interaction (effort) just to read the thing. Oh, and the navigation between pages is a bit inconsistent. It looks pretty and embedded video is a nice bonus, but sometimes less is more. I'd love Edge on my iPad, but this is too much work. I'm sticking with the beautiful dead-tree version for now, the user interface and reading experience is much better than this over-engineered app..Version: 2.0
✓ It's a PDFWas hoping for a nice digital mag, what I got was a PDF of the actual physical magazine. Small text and no interactive features. Highly disappointed. Be sure to download the free issue before subscribing to see what I mean..Version: 1.0
✓ Style over substanceFrom a superficial design point of view, everything looks really impressive and there is a definite "wow" effect the first time you see all the animations etc. But when you actually want to read the content, it becomes clear that the devs chose style over usability. Some of the main things that annoy me: 1) No landscape mode possible 2) No zooming possible 3) It's really inconvenient having to scroll text in a tiny box because some pictures at the bottom of the screen are static. Looks cool, but as the app in general it's not very reader-friendly..Version: 3.8.1
✓ Hang on to your moneyIn theory this should work, to look at its great however it's way too big to download. Clumsy navigation, very disappointed with this, I collected all edges up until this came out - I bought the first digital edition. I'd never invest in a digital one again, a complete waste of money - Why give an eye candy product a good review when the information it contains is so limited and to get to the point bland. Leave well alone, future needs their heads tested if this is all they can come up this, I feel as if the jobs been given to someone who just left school - you've been warned..Version: 3.2.2
✓ Excellent magazine, poor digitisationJust downloaded this for my new iPad Pro 12.9" and am pretty disappointed to find that this app hasn't been updated to support it, meaning that the UI is incorrectly scaled and looks terrible. I was hoping that the extra size of this iPad would make the Edge app usable again, seeing as the magazines are borderline illegible on a normal-sized iPad following the decision to just make the issues scans of the real-life magazine. But there's no point having the extra size if the app doesn't support it..Version: 4.9.5
✓ Recent update broke the appMost recent update prevents any download of digital magazines - even after reinstalling, restoring purchases, etc. EDGE is a great magazine but the "changes to the storefront" are making it hard to enjoy..Version: 3.6
✓ New version is completely brokenHow about fixing old bugs before adding new even buggier features? This subscription has been such a waste of money. Can't even read the magazines I paid for. Support is hopeless too!.Version: 2.0.1
✓ Needs some serious optimizationThe pages take so much time to load, it's ridiculous. An iPad third gen should be able to display static pages with no hiccups..Version: 1.9
✓ Not much point reallyWell I've been a reader of EDGE magazine since the beginning - the first issue was given away as a supplement in another mag. So when I heard about the new iPad version of the mag I was quite excited. Well what a disappointment, some people just don't get electronic publishing and I'm shocked that the people who produce EDGE are happy to put something this POOR onto the iPad. Guys, this is basically the paper mag reproduced in a way that is no better than taking a photo copy of each page and putting it online. Personally I would say don't bother, stick to the paper version at least you'll be able to read it. One final note - (and this is to the people who've produced this) download the Guardian iPad app and see what is possible when some thought, time, and effort is put into producing and electronic version of a paper based publication. Very Poor!.Version: 1.2
✓ Not recommended if u have multiple devicesA great magazine, but, you can't view it on multiple advices - even though it says you can. I purchased on my iPhone, with the intention of reading it on my iPad, but when I tried to copy it onto the iPad using the Restore Purchases option, it claimed that I had no purchases to restore. Looks like I wasted $5.49, because reading a 100+ page magazine on the tiny iPhone screen is not a pleasant experience. So it gets a 1 star review until this is fixed..Version: 1.0
✓ Poorly designed App, good content.Edge is a good publication with thoughtful, articulate writing. However, after two years of subscribing to the App and dealing with numerous issues trying to keep the downloaded issues on my phone, I decided to warn others considering subscribing about my experiences with the digital publication. I am using an Iphone 11 Pro Max with software version 14.7.1. The App will often lose all of my downloaded issues forcing me to redownload the issues, which may or may not work. it has been so problematic the last few months I dread using it on my phone. The App works more consistently on my iPad, but still has occasional problems (i.e. needing to "restore Apple Purchase" so it knows you subscribed, having to re-download issues, waiting many minutes for a single issue to download, the App itself freezing during processing dowloads and more). The Edge App is exactly like a game that has good ideas and art, but is (very) poorly executed..Version: 6.0.6
✓ Just don't bother!£5 for the magazine meant Edge had a prime opportunity to put out a cheaper modern equivalent for iPad/iPhone. Unfortunately they've taken the lazy option and scanned the magazine and just put it out as a PDF. Completely baffling when you consider the quality of the magazine itself. Edge and Future Publishing take note. Myself and many others are quite willing to take out the digital subscription as soon as you bring it up to the level we all expect. I love Edge, show some love back!.Version: 1.2
✓ Constant naggingI wanted to read just the latest issue of Edge, for which I happily paid. But every time I go back to the app it nags me: do a survey, try a trial, etc. Next time paper or, more likely, nothing..Version: 6.0.6
✓ Looks bad on iPad ProNot optimised for larger screens so looks pixelated..Version: 5.2.3
✓ Still charges even though I subscribeThis app is so broken. It still tries to charge me when a new version of the magazine comes out, so I have to reinstall the app every time to get the magazine I already subscribe to. Additionally it has forced advertising, even though I already pay for some things. I really dislike the app, but I love the magazine. I hope the journalists go elsewhere..Version: 5.2.3
✓ BrokenRecent download made the edge app unusable. It won't download my latest issue, despite trying all recommended trouble shooting steps. Received an automated email from customer service. Very poor. I won't renew my subscription at this rate. Please fix this poste haste Future publishing!.Version: 3.6
✓ DisappointedI was really hoping for a step up from the printed version. . . This was nothing better than the original magazine in non-printed form. Not that wonderful of a reading experience..Version: 1.8
✓ RuinedThis app used to be a treat - the best reading experience i've ever found on the iPad, fully interactive and a triumph of design. It's now reverted to a stack of PDFs and even on an iPad Air-sized screen you have to zoom and pan to be able to read anything - a terrible experience. All made worse by the fact this happened without warning - no warning ir explanation for why, not even in the update notes on the App Store. When i subscribed, i paid to receive the interactive edition and feel it's an offence to still being charged the same amount for a vastly inferior product..Version: 4.4.1
✓ Love the mag, hate the appSorry guys, I really felt like I'd wasted my money doing the e-subscription. A pain to download issues, ridiculous memory eating (admittedly you are a very graphic mag), and crappy stuck-ness that I had no idea how to get out of..Version: 3.6.5
✓ UndownloadableThe magazine takes hours to download for some bizarre reason, I bought an issue last week and still haven't been able to read it, because it's taking up over 500mb of space before finally failing to download. Needs fixing fast..Version: 2.0.1
✓ Download Bug Still Not FixedI've paid for the new interactive edition and wasnt able to DL it in the last version of the app. I was hoping that this update would fix that, but I after updating I still am unable to download it. It just keeps saying "Download Error. Failure Downloading content. Please try again. I hope the developer is reading this and is working on a fix. I am using an iPad 3, aka The New iPad if that helps at all..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Last updateThe last update seems a little buggie. Top and bottom edges of viewing area misaligned, still see reading area, hard to see menus..Version: 1.6
✓ Good content, but....I have found that the edge app is well developed with easily navigable functions and excellent use of the iPad 4 display. The problem I have with it is that it does not work offline. Trying to read a magazine while not connected to the net results in the app bombing to the home screen with no warning or explanation. This defeats the purpose of a magazine, being something read at leisure and not only when the internet is available..Version: 3.8.1
✓ I love Edge, but the app is terrible.The edge magazine has the best coverage of the video games industry, bar none. The app however is not useable on a my iPhone 6 plus. It keeps crashing every time when trying to read an issue..Version: 3.8.1
✓ App is abysmal on iPhone 6 on iOS 11I’ve been using this app for years on various iPhones and iOS versions with no issues but since I updated to iOS 11 on my iPhone 6 the app is absolutely abysmal to use. It is so slow and unresponsive that it is basically unusable. Come on devs, please make this work for us older iPhone users. I’m not gonna pay £600 plus to upgrade my phone just to get a glorified PDF viewer to work at acceptable speeds..Version: 4.9.5
✓ Subscription problemBe careful. When my subscription ended, I had cause to rebuild my iPad. When I reinstalled the edge app and went to restore my purchases it reported a problem restoring my content, referring to problems with active subscriptions. Well my subscription is not active, but I should not lose my previous purchases. Seems like a problem in the app logic. Support from future publishing and iTunes has bee terrible. Future say it is an iTunes in app purchase issue, iTunes came up with all kinds of rubbish, still no solution. So both are happy to take your cash but not solve a fundamental issue like this. Be warned..Version: 1.9
✓ So disappointing, and still no updateGoing from a fantastic interactive magazine to this is devastating. A huge step backwards on all accounts. Once a great example of how digital literature should be done, now has downgraded all selling points to a that'll do standard. If we wanted what is now being given we'd of gone for a printed subscription as edge magazine has always out shined others on quality and attention to detail, even down to the quality of the paper. This new version lacks any of this. Just pdf's of what is printed, lazy work from future publishing. Content from the writers is still second to none, but execution on delivery is abysmal in comparison to previous versions. Damaging to the brand of what is an extremely well respected magazine. 6 Months on from writing this review nothing has changed.. sad to see the readers are not being listened too.. with a heavy heart I am cancelling my subscription and switching back to physical copies. Such a shame as loved having all my copies in one place without taking up space and prior editions having the class to impress friends with what the future of the medium looks like. Looks like this goal to innovate what literature is to become has been abandoned as well as its readers..Version: 4.9.5
✓ Beware of the Latest UpdateUpdated a few moments ago and I can no longer open any issues. Tried restoring content numerous times to no avail. Data still shows 5GB being used by the app, so the content is there (or is it...). I reeeeaaaallllyyy don't feel like redownloading 5GB worth of data, so hopefully I'm just missing something. Rebooted, updated firmware, rebooted again, nada. Won't even let me redownload content. Select, "Download Issue" and it just sits there staring at me with soulless eyes. Oh the humanity!.Version: 3.1.4
✓ EdgeThe Edge app on iPad Air 2 continuously freezes and/or crashes . I have cancelled my subscription after no response from the app team, very disappointing after reading the magazine from the very start? Sad...Version: 4.9.5
✓ So disappointed :(I love EDGE, I've had a subscription for many years. I recently cancelled my subscription because I wasnt reading them and always forgot to carry the magazine around. When I saw it was coming to the iPad I was very excited and thought I could renew my subscription in a digital format. Oh boy, how disappointing. A lazy, lazy implementation. Have you seen EVO magazine ? A friend showed it to me, It's for fast cars but it is designed brilliantly for the iPad and shows exactly how a magazine & multimedia can work together. I ~really really~ wish EDGE was done in a similar way, I kept expecting to be able to click on pictures or stats to get more info or see videos of gameplay etc. No. Nothing like that. Flat scans of the magazine.. So dull, no effort at all. Avoid at all costs. Future publishing, you really dropped the ball on this and I hope Dennis et al take you to the cleaners..Version: 1.0
✓ DisappointingNew interactive magazines offer no extra value or worth, just silly time wasting animations on page turn. When I turn the page I don't want to wait for the content to slowly animate on before I read it. Rather than scrolling the page we have silly, awkward scroll areas, some so small its hardly worth it. No real readon for the interaction at all. I get a worse experience for an extra quid. Downloaded mag in airport, went to read on plane, gone. Connected to wifi again and restored purchases, suddenly instantly there again. Force quit application as it was downloading previous purchases, all gone again. Annoying you can't select previous purchases, not worth the hassle, buy the print..Version: 2.1
✓ Where has the interactivity gone?Not generally a reviewer, but wanted to highlight this to the Edge/Future Mag. I’ve been collecting Edge since the 90s, during the days of Sega Dreamcast. I have subscribed to the digital version for 3yrs now and of recent did not read the 2017 issues due to my iPad mini 2 screen cracking. Recently I had picked up the iPad mini 4 and going back to reading the back issues especially connecting the articles based on the games I have played on my PS4, FFXV, Horizon Zero Dawn and many reviewed on these back issues. I was very surprised to see the interactivity of the digital print disappearing. The e-mag is now just a plain old side to side kindle page turner, as suppose to the bench mark of what a great e-mag was supposed to be and why I was blown away and transition to digital version 3 years back. Where were the little pop up comments, supposed vertical scrolling to the page, enjoyable small animations. All I see in recent issues are a button on gallery and a video. The UX of the e-mag has tunes bland, whilst the article is still top notch, it is now different from reading an article on a webpage, with the additional zoom in and out for the text on a iPad. I hope to see the interactive design come back in 2018, to what makes this digital version, where I once benchmark all digital mag to what is should be..Version: 5.2.3
✓ Pure unmitigated garbageGood magazine, but the future publishing app platform is absolutely abysmal and barely functional. Half the time it just flat out won’t work, meaning when you get to read the magazine you’ve paid for is at the whim of whether the app feels like working on that particular day..Version: 6.0.6
✓ Crashes at startEdge may be a great magazine but you'll never know as the app crashes as soon as you try to read an issue. I am on an iPad Air with all other applications closed, so this should not be happening. Subscribe at your own risk..Version: 3.8.1
✓ Content is not optimized for iPadThis app offer the print version of the magazine in a pseudo-PDF that you can zoom and pan, unlike some iPad optimized mags like Wired or GQ. Note quite as pleasant to read..Version: 1.6
✓ Rip OffThanks for the memories EDGE. Where's Redeye when you need him. Don't waste your hard earned on what they call edge now, just read the newswires. That's all they do..Version: 1.8
✓ DisappointingRegular crashes. Too many adds asking if I want to purchase all of the back catalogue. A real shame that such a great publication is so let down with this app..Version: 6.0.6
✓ Love Edge, but this app is lackingEdge magazine is one of the few gaming publications I'll read, online or off. Excellent journalism and great features, held together by terrific design. It's unfortunate that the great design doesn't translate to the iPad in this app – rather than retool their content for the iPad screen, they've instead provided us with a glorified PDF reader. You can't read most text without painful manual zooming and panning, and it forgets your position when you leave the app. It's a shame, as with a bit of work, Edge's identity and quality content could really shine on the iPad. Please give some serious thought to a rethink of your approach here, Future!.Version: 1.0
✓ Great magazine, terrible appI love reading Edge. It is one of the finest gaming journals out there. But the app version of the magazine has been nothing but trouble. It is VERY slow to download because it is fully interactive. Perhaps a non-interactive as a second option would be useful? Downloading in general is awkward. Having reached 100% downloaded the magazine often hangs on 'processing'. It often requires hard closing the magazine, app and iPad multiple times to get the magazine to finally work. Also, after reading a few pages of the magazine and quitting and the returning to the magazine I get a pop up message telling me it's 'corrupted' and won't open. I hard closed the magazine and app only to find my current issue has been deleted and needs downloading again! Insanely annoying! Sometimes I think magazine app is more trouble than it is worth but I don't want to start buying physical copies of the magazine because that defeats one of the reasons I bought an iPad. Sort it out, Edge!.Version: 3.1.5
✓ A travestyThis, like all the news stand apps, isn't as good as the zinio version, and zinio wasn't that great to start with, so you can imagine how much worse this is. How does it differ from zinio? - No links anywhere in the magazine, have to manually scroll to every page rather than clicking the relevant article you want to read in the index/contents page. - No links to anywhere external, like in edge with the bitly links, have to remember the link then go to safari and enter it in manually. - Doesn't remember where you were in the magazine when you close it, zinio does even if you close the app down completely. - Cannot read on desktop if you want to, with Zinio you can. I'm not sure who's to really blame here, but as every single news stand app I've downloaded appears to have this same problems when compared to zinio, I can only assume there's something fundamentally wrong with the way news stand works, therefore it might apples fault. How they could release the news stand and hail it as an amazing experience when it's actually worse than current news readers I'll never know. That's the apple way though I guess, release something inferior but make people believe its better as it has an apple attached to it. I'll stick to zinio..Version: 1.0
✓ Please fixPlease fix this app - I continue to subscribe because I love the magazine but the app is barely useable for longer than a few minutes at a time before it crashes..Version: 7.1.1
✓ Frick this stupid appThe free trial isn’t actually free. I JUST WANT SILKSONG NEWS AAAAAAAA.Version: 6.0.6
✓ Poorly designed for tablet readingWhile the editorial and articles of this revered gaming magazine are as strong as ever, this iPad edition seems to have been treated as a quick cash-in by the publisher. The layout and appearance is little more than a PDF of the print version, which means the text on most pages is too small to read in a full page view. The reader therefore has to scroll up and down the columns of text, with none of the easy "snap to" double tapping that iPad users will be used to from reading web pages. Furthermore, this app doesn't take any advantage of the fact that it is being displayed on an interactive, internet-connected device. There is no video, no audio, no links to the web etc. overall, a poo, half-hearted effort. The publisher needs to embrace this new medium fully if it expects the public to pay for content that's freely available on the magazine's website..Version: 1.2
✓ LazyThe app makes no effort to take advantage of the medium - its a bunch of images you pan around. There's no intelligent zoom because the app has no idea where the text or images are. There's not even a functioning table-of-contents. Lose an issue, and 'restore purchases' doesn't recover it; instead you have to buy it again and cross your fingers you don't get charged. Worst of all, the writing might've impressed me when I was 17 but now it comes off as wordy and pretentious. It's not like there's a shortage of good videogame writing out there on the net, so do yourself a favour: Find some websites you like, combine them with a good read-it-later app, and skip this garbage..Version: 1.0
✓ Excellent magazine, awful iPad/iPhone appEdge the magazine is as good as it's ever been. Unfortunately the app is completely awful. It frequently 'forgets' about subscriptions and needs restoring. When you can download it takes absolute age. Other magazines will download over my home connection in fewer than two minutes (quicker still for text heavy ones); an issue of Edge will take three or four HOURS. Even the iPhone edition - which you'd expect to be smaller - takes over three hours. A massive degree of optimisation is required before this can be recommended. Until that occurs, stick to buying the print edition..Version: 3.2.2
✓ Reformatted no frills, still same good magIt's good that hey have reformatted this magazine to be viewed on iPad. Even though it's not got the sort of gimmicks you expect from magazines of the future, it downloads quick and is good quality scans. In the version I used, there is an issue with restoring issues you have deleted to make room. I bought an issue , had to delete it, but when I went to restore the issue, the app claimed I had not bought it..Version: 1.0
✓ Great magazine, App needs improvementWith the plethora of gaming journalism online, few magazines are worth purchasing. This is definitely one of them. However, there are a few issues with the app that get in the way of enjoying this otherwise excellent magazine. The main issue is that it doesn't save my place in the issues, so if I close the app or leave the issue, I have to scroll through the whole magazine to find my place again. Another issue I have is the home page, which is where you buy all the issues. It is UGLY. I want to see all the issues I purchased displayed aesthetically, like the newsstand app, and separate from the storefront. I can be alerted to the fact there are new issues available without being forced into the store every time. My ideal experience would be opening the app in Newstand to immediately see all the issues I purchased on a similar shelf, then tap on an issue to be taken to the last place I left off..Version: 1.0
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