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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

No, this is not a willful design decision, the app simply can not technically support two different backend providers.

I think I was a bit unclear.

I completely understand that this was a necessary outcome and not a choice. I meant to contrast the necessity of changing backend providers with the willful choice to move to a yearly release instead of a single mobile app with yearly updates.

Plus, we did not promise a yearly release schedule, we stated back then that that is the current plan, and unfortunately this time the plan had to change. I wish it were not the case, but we cannot change it, sorry.

I understand that this was a genuine plan and that you did not expect to change it. But this is definitely a design choice, and I would like to hear more about why it was made, especially so soon after the previous plan to update the same app yearly.

And about the historical seasons, we try to resolve this issue, but if we can't, the solution is to keep the old OOTP Go on the device and play purchased historical seasons there. I know it is not ideal, but it certainly works.

It does not work. The old app has bugs, and furthermore I just bought the historical season package this spring shortly before the OOTP 23 release because it was explicitly said that OOTP Go would be updated yearly. I did not buy the historical season pack to replay an old game, I bought it because I was told I was making an investment in a long-term platform that was about to release the new version.

"Well, when you bought it a few weeks earlier I know it said your purchase would carry over to future yearly releases but now you can just play the old version of the app" is absolutely not a solution that works.