An issue in the Windows Phone Store has popped up that may be costing developers money. The issue is putting paid apps that do not wish to have free trials available in the Store with free trials available. To make matters worse the free “trial” is actually just the full app, but for free.
Here are a few emails from devs reporting this problem:
Saturday, September 22, 2012 4:38 AM
Esko Laaksonen
Hi,
I published a non-free app, which had trials disabled. Still I was able to download the “trial”, which was the full version of the app. I unpublished the app immediately.
Is this the way it is supposed to work? I don’t want trials, I rather make another application submission and exclude all features from the code I don’t want to support in the trial.
Saturday, September 22, 2012 5:32 AM
ManInWilderness
My investigation has shown that not all markets show the trial so many publishers won’t know this is happening, not unles their market has this fault.
This is an on-going problem. Reports of this go back to the last (the one before the most recent) market place update. About the only things you can be sure an update will bring, are even more chaos, even more things that don’t work, and even more fun watching our stuff get shifted around as if it’s all for free.
1 hour 8 minutes ago
ManInWilderness
And now that a week has passed, I can see all the apps are free for all. No telling how much has been given away the last week since there’s no record. Once again, let down BIG TIME! Come on, this is a crime.
This is not good. Microsoft needs to get this bug fixed ASAP.
[via WMPU]
