now that the dust has cleared - Game Center or OpenFeint?

[Rubicon]

Originally Posted by headcaseGames

OF supports older OS's, also it is available on Android (I develop for that platform as well) and I have contacts who work at OF who could potentially help me to market the game.

Anyway I think GC is the better choice, but I wanted to see what others said.

In my experience OF has caused more customer dissatisfaction than anything else on Android - it crashes all the time and lots of people complain about all the extra stuff being installed.

We also were promised (and recieved) a boost from their home page and upsell activities and it made not even a tiny bump in sales. We're not bothering with it in future Android titles.

I think since being bought out that their future is aimed elsewhere. Not impressed at all.

[Kafu]

Originally Posted by mr.Ugly

from the numbers i've gathered from different sources around 30% use gc if the game provides it..

With our game (Tapsteroids), GC results enabled (i.e. the user is logged-in) for only 15% of users. Maybe it is better for other sort of games.

D.

[DemonJim]

Originally Posted by adrasteaGames

For our latest game we have a free version and a paid version.

When we integrate GameCenter, will it be possible somehow to have a combined highscore for the free and paid app? I don't like the idea that there are two separate highscores because that would simply make no sense to split them.

Any suggestions what we can do here?

Best regards,
Andreas

This is not possible at the moment. Interestingly though, soon (with Mountain Lion) it will be possible to share Leaderboards across iOS and Mac (and play versus etc).

So if this sharing isn't done via them simply having to use the same AppID, and instead uses some sort of iTC GC-link mechanism, then just maybe it will also be possible across Lite/Paid apps. That's pure speculation, mind.

[fetagames]

Originally Posted by adrasteaGames

For our latest game we have a free version and a paid version.

When we integrate GameCenter, will it be possible somehow to have a combined highscore for the free and paid app? I don't like the idea that there are two separate highscores because that would simply make no sense to split them.

Any suggestions what we can do here?

Best regards,
Andreas

I see there only one possibility, to have Freemium version.
Free demo and with IAP unlocking full version, then you can have only one leaderbord. I suppose this is the idea why Apple do allow leaderboards just only per one app.

1) Apple wants you to use both: GC & IAP
2) There is less possibility that customers will request money returns for purchase by IAP (if this is possible at all, I don;t know, I haven't looking for money returns after I did purchase noncosumable goods like unlocking full app)