Plus+ or OpenFeint?

Plus+ seems more polished and has something like six games now, with about that many already on the way. And it has standards. The achievements are balanced and they are all quality games.

 

OFs soon to come multiplayer hosting pwns plus+

 

I can't stand Open Feint. It's laggy, unpolished, has an ugly and non-native interface, has to reload data every time you change tabs, has absolutely no standardization process for making sure it is well implemented in games, lacks online save hosting, and the vast majority of the games that use it are shovelware crap.

 

almost everything you just said is not true in the newest ver,

 

Which newest version? The one in Pocket God? Everything I said is true in that version, although it is notably better than it was before. If there is a newer version I'm not aware of, I can't speak for it. I know that the Pocket God OF still sucks though.

 

yep its the one in PG, whish is prefectly polished, looks great, but ehh to each his own, i dont really even care at this point i just want one to win and get it over with, having 15 different networks is a waste of our time and damn annoying,

but plus+ being picky about how its implemented and what achivments there are ect is only going to hinder them, most devs wont want to jump through their hoops, apples are bad enough

 

"Polish" does not equal "Loading bar every time I enter a new menu", but to each their own I suppose.

You see, thats where I disagree with you, about the picky-ness. As soon as you start talking about a service that multiple apps and developers are going to take advantage of, you need some sort of body to control it, and keep everyone in check.

Someone has to be in charge of making sure that achievements are actually achievable, and the apps that are being cross-promoted meet a minimum level of quality, so as not to degrade the whole service.


At the end of the day, does it really matter how many social gaming networks there are? Competition encourages everyone to work harder, which leads to better products for the consumer.

 

sure sounds great untill plus+ has a 4 week aproval que on top of apples sounds real great!

and yes there being many does matter at the end of the day, the point on social gaming networks is to bring gamers and friends together, not devide them.

and you seriously can't handle a 1sec (or less) loading bar?

 

I doubt it would be anywhere close to 4 weeks, but so what if it was? I'd rather wait longer for a quality product than be fed high-speed shovelware.

If there were a bunch of serious contenders in the social gaming network space, I'd agree it might be problematic. With the iPhone space, there really aren't that many, though. Open Feint and Plus+ are the only two serious contenders, and they both cater to different markets. Plus+ goes for the high end market exclusively, Open Feint goes for the shovelware market, medium end market, and the high end market at the same time.

It sort of reminds me of the whole Apple and Microsoft computer situation, actually, in that it all comes down to Quantity vs Quality. And as the Apple/MS situation illustrates perfectly, we don't NEED just one platform. People can wrap their minds around multiple services that cater to different audiences. I can, at least.



Also yes, I find a 1 second load time every time I enter a submenu ridiculous and jarring for a supposedly polished product to have. If the iPod did that whenever I chose an artist or album, I can honestly say I wouldn't own one.

 

Just because I disagree with you, that doesn't mean you need to resort to name calling. There is very little "good" about Open Feint to outweigh anything. About the only features it has over Plus+ are messaging and chat rooms, and I'll concede those are features worth having. Aside from that, it actually has less useful features than Plus+ does, and all of it's features are implemented less elegantly.

The latest version of Plus+ saves your games to the servers, so you can log in and play your data on any iPhone. Open Feint doesn't do that.

Anyways, 6 games isn't bad for a new service. Every single one of the 6 Plus+ games are killer apps for the iPhone, which basically any iPhone gamer should own. Open Feint has about the same number of good apps, and the rest is garbage I wouldn't install for free.

 

Pretty new; it launched with 3.0 a little over 2 months ago, and is on it's second major revision right now. 6 high-quality games over a 2 month period is pretty good, in my opinion.

 

No question OP wins because they are working on putting multiplayer in, a quote from them "we are trying to be the xbox live of the iPhone" so yeah plus+ will be dead when they put multiplayer in it

 

Interface - Plus+
Chat - OpenFeint
Connectivity - OpenFeint
Achievements - Draw - Plus+ has better achievements but they aren't capped. OpenFeint has capped achievements, but some games make it too easy to get achievements.
Leaderboards - Plus+

This is my opinion.

I think they're about even, but the quality of games that Plus+ supports gives it the slight edge in my opinion. I can't help but feel a bit cheated for beating Psycho mode on Sentinel 2 for 15 points to be outdone by a guy playing some random pick up n play that gives 50 points for clearing the first level.

 

What's games with Plus+ can you save your game to the Plus+ server? Star Defense?