Has an app icon ever affected you're decision?

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  1. Dandarya

    Dandarya Well-Known Member

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    In other words, have you ever not wanted to buy an app just because of how the icon looks?

    As for myself I never was interested in buying Trucker's Delight because the icon just looks plain stupid :cool:..
     
  2. J'Star

    J'Star Well-Known Member

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    Haha, always.

    Ive purchased games that I was waiting for, yet promptly deleted without trying. I hear weathered underground is good, I bought it, and immediately deleted because of the butt-ugly icon.

    Glad to hear im not the only nut
     
  3. chrisf82

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    I think it mainly makes me investigate an app more before buying. Usually I try and find a YouTube video to see if the ugly icon is a pure reflection of a crappy app or just an unfortunate oversight. It's hard to get over a bad first impression though.
     
  4. funkynubman

    funkynubman Well-Known Member

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    YES. I will arrange my apps in a certain way JUST DEPENDING ON WHAT THE ICON LOOKS LIKE (except for some exceptions, like Enviro-Bear 2010 and Spider, which are so awesome they defy the rules and go straight to top.)
     
  5. zoqi

    zoqi Active Member

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    I've bought an app more than once just because it had a great icon. So yes.
     
  6. LBG

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    App icons are irrelevant to me, unless they look really ugly. I don't really care what they look like, as long as the app is good.
    But obviously when I'm looking in the App Store, I'm attracted to the apps with the better icons. When I find an app I like the look of, I pay no attention to the icon and just download it.
     
  7. MidianGTX

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    I just replace ugly icons with my own.

    /win
     
  8. Dandarya

    Dandarya Well-Known Member

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    jailbroken?
     
  9. UncleLimey

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    i like it when an icon looks good... not too bothered it it looks naff, as long as the app is good... but what annoys me is when the title under the icon is so long that it ends up with dots in it... for example.. Dungeon Hunter's title under the icon is 'dungeon....ter' or something like that... just plain LAZY !!!!!!
     
  10. sammysin

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    You are the bees knees John.

    P.S - I laugh when someone says they aren't buying a game because the icon is ugly. WTH?
     
  11. Qordobo

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    Good question but how know the answer? What's sure is that a bad icon won't stop me play or buy the game. But game graphics can increase my wish to buy a game.

    For my iPad ordering it's purely functional, par genre, per favorite, per most played currently.

    Games with a icon that attract my attention, good looking or bad looking have a bit more chance I pick then when I don't know much what to play and is browsing the iPad.
     
  12. madmud101

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    +1, exactly what i do.
     
  13. MasterChief3624

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    #13 MasterChief3624, Aug 16, 2010
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    The original icon for Land Air Sea Warfare put me off immensely. Never mind the gameplay that I probably won't get sucked into. That icon was absolutely god-awful.

    Actually, here's what I think got to me with that icon. I played a demo for iShoot (I think), and that had pretty much the same icon, yet I really hated that game. So seeing that icon (or a very similar one) on LASW left a really bad taste in my mouth.

    Thankfully the new icon is much more inviting, and if I ever get into RTS games, I will be sure to pick it up without needing to worry about the ugly icon of yesteryear :cool:
     
  14. tsharpfilm

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    Lol. Good thread topic. :D

    I've looked over some games because of their icons. I figure - if they can't even make an attractive icon, they probably can't make an attractive game. And once I scroll to the screenshots, I'm usually right. But I have ran into a few surprises.
     
  15. Entropic

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    Yeah, if rRootage online wasn't free, I never would have downloaded it, because of the icon and splash screen.
     
  16. headcaseGames

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    I've got a ton of negative feedback about our icon for 180

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    which surprised me because I figured it properly appealed to the demographic. Ah well, live and learn. I tested so many things before releasing the app, but one of the most important ones slipped through the cracks! Anyway, we'll have a new icon up shortly (next week I hope!) No more girl, just the logo and maybe a gamepiece or something. I'll be sure to get feedback before submitting this time :)

    Icon design is actually one of the hardest elements to nail in the whole process...! It's the very first thing much your potential audience will see, obviously.
     
  17. Coldar

    Coldar Well-Known Member

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    Sacrifice a good quality game based on an ugly icon? Doesn't matter to me personally what it looks like.
    But I do look for quality in an icon being that its usually the first thing I see. I usually go by a 3 point score system. Polish/Image/Name
    Usually if two+ of these get strikes then I move on.
     
  18. don_k

    don_k Well-Known Member

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    Short answer: yes.
     
  19. MartiNZ

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    Sure, usually icons that have the app name on them or have black (transparent) backgrounds, although that's not such a big deal with backdrop wallpapers now.

    Worst is when the icons in the AppStore don't match what shows up on the iDevice!
     
  20. del

    del Well-Known Member

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    Yes. It's like how I used to occasionally buy cds because of their covers. Sometimes the icon also blinds me to truth about the game. It took me a long time to realize that I really didn't like Eliss that much. I just liked having it's icon on my screen. Yep, I'm superficial like that. But I'm not alone by the looks of this thread.
     

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