Planes App permanently removed
After further discussion with Wizard of the Coast’s lawyers, it seems that the Planes App violates the Wizards website Terms of Use, by connecting to and downloading Plane images and card text from the site. While there are many commercial and free third party sites using Magic card images and text for both commercial and free purposes, all I can say is that Wizards were definitely not happy about the Planes App doing it. I speculate that they perhaps saw it as a threat to sales of the Planechase product. Anyway, I will be honouring their wishes and therefore won’t be returning the App to sale.
This result is a little sad given the amount of time and effort I put into designing and developing the App. On the other hand, I have received nothing but good feedback from those that tried or have seen the App. And hey, maybe Wizards will one-day develop their own App and we might see Planechase on the iPhone again!
This is terrible! I would gladly pay for this app so that Wizards could be recompensated!
It looks amazing from what I saw, and this is exactly the kind of thing that ought to exist.
Were Wizards not prepared to come to any agreement? Hell if I were them I would’ve bought it off you!
Is there no way for the app to be resurrected on Cydia or something?
I don’t mean to encourage you to act illegally but the app is pretty similar to deck builders that still exist, you can view all the cards already, not sure if you can randomize their order but combine that a dice that you get in life counter apps and your halfway to this app in principle.
Anyway gutted you made something that cool and shot down, keep up the good work.
I agree, but you’ll have to request such a thing from Wizards directly. They were clear about not being interested in partnering with external people on such projects.
Sorry, I have no interest in releasing this on Cydia or anywhere else. Wizards specifically asked me not to release it anywhere else. I have no interest in angering them when I am working on creating useful MTG related software.
This is so sad. I play commander all the time with planes and i use iphone. I have not seen a better app than this one for planechase. It is so sad we cannot use it or buy it anymore