PC Gamer (US) for Android

The look is so horrible, it doesn’t feel modern or sleek at all. It’s very clunky and ugly. It has a “scam website” feel. I subscribed and tried to download an issue. It says if I’m not an iTunes user I need to sign in. First I need to actually create a login and password but there’s no place to do that and I’m NOT going to download something crappy like iTunes just for this app. So I’m going to cancel my subscription...but guess what. I need to download iTunes to cancel! How are we in 2020 and some companies can’t make a good app. Even just a decent one. I could go to Fivr and get someone to make me a better app than this.

I have an active iTunes subscription, yet when I attempt to download the March 19 issue, I’m presented with an App Store purchase screen for $8.99. Why?

Both the Maximum PC and PC Gamer magazine apps deserve less than one star. Each month, a person either needs to reinstall the app and restore purchases or pay for every new magazine each month, even with a monthly subscription. I’ve subscribed to each magazine for countless years, but after dealing with this broken app for nearly a year now, I’m unsubscribing. It’s not worth the aggravation, and Google should pull the app.

I always get my paper copy at least a week before the digital version shows up. This is very annoying.

I get all my magazine and newspapers electronically these days. The PC Gamer app requires a lengthy download that of every issue that, frankly, sends me away to do other things on my Mobile, forgetting to go back to read the download which stops downloading as soon as I leave the app, lengthening my next visit, too. Once an issue is downloaded, the app labels it as “Read”. But, that’s a terrible label. It doesn’t tell you whether you have or haven’t read that issue. You have to open the issue and read a bit of it to see if you recognize its content or not. Last, the “sharing” function is awful. I often want to send an article to myself to remind myself to buy a certain game. But, whenever I email it to my myself, the link in my email doesn’t open the article. It simply sends me to the PC Gamer app in the App Store asking me to download the app, even though I already have it. Nevertheless, the magazine is great. I realize it’s expensive to update apps, but a small amount of if/then code could improve the “Read” label and a little code should be able to actually send the article, not an App Store link, to those wanting to share an article.