Dancing Angel is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam. It's a crap ripoff of Dance Dance Revolution but with worse graphics and crappy mobile app tier screen tapping gameplay. It's got some vague, pointless anime-ripoff art with an angel theme.
The game isn't free, it's infested with nasty mobile app microtransaction cancer, making this a nasty cash grab from greedy mobile devs. Part of the monetization for the game is the developers deliberately avoid using SteamWorks and try to harvest gamers email addresses and other private information for the purpose of profiling them, spying on them, and selling private data to third parties. Of course they'll tell you they would never do such thing, so why then do they need to harvest user data like they do? I wouldn't trust these creepy mobile devs as far as I could throw them. Remember, if the product is free, YOU are the product. Stay safe out there.
This should be avoided by all gamers.
[quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]
The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says:
[quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote]
The developer responds with a pointless response that does nothing but confirm the valid points I raised in my review.
The developer claims I didn't play their predatory mobile app garbage for very long. What do they expect, will their mobile crap garbage stop being a crap mobile app if I played it for 4 hours longer? Obviously not. It did not take long to ascertain the most important facts of my review.
The developer expects that somehow a crap product becomes better if you spend more time with it. The developer seems to think if you open a carton of milk and it's obviously sour, and reeks, you must drink the whole thing before deciding it's sour. What an obtuse, arrogant, and terrible position to take, and to confront reviewers on. It does not take long to establish any of the important facts of my review. Playing their crap game for longer will not make it stop being a terrible mobile app. The arrogance from the developer here is simply unacceptable, but it does explain the anti-gamer aspects of this train wreck.
The developer then admits they refuse to use Steamworks because it does not allow them to engage with the predatory, Tencent owned Epic Games, known for industry hostile, anti-consumer activities. But this is nonsense, as Steamworks integration does not prevent engagement with Chinese owned spyware assets like Epic. The developer claims this is because they are incapable of hiring staff to prevent them from working with industry hostile, anti-consumer game cancer companies like Epic. I don't see why this makes their game anything but even less recommendable to gamers, so I thank the developer for providing more reasons to avoid this garbage. It makes little sense to me, as a solo developer, I would do everything I could to avoid Epic, but then I try not to be unethical towards gamers.
The developer, who already admitted they refuse to use Steamworks, ostensibly because it stops them spying on gamers via Epic Games, asks us to trust them not to spy on gamers. Wow. No, I don't trust unethical developers, and the developer here has directly admitted they refuse to comply with normal, moral, ethical standards, so they can spy on gamers by using EGS. But they ask us to trust them, because they don't... apparently.
The developer seems confused and thinks if you dump mobile crap on a PC, mobile crap suddenly becomes the same as a PC game. If I go buy a cheeseburger from McDonalds, and carry it into a Gordon Ramsay restaurant, it doesn't suddenly become haute cuisine. The developer can't seriously be so dense to think that dumping mobile crap on a PC suddenly makes it stop being mobile crap. Why are they being dishonest here?
The developer admits they made zero professional effort to develop the game, it's just a side job for them, which does explain some of the terrible quality problems of this crappy mobile app... but it doesn't excuse them. Why should PC gamers suddenly think a game is "better" because the developer didn't even make it professionally?
The developer then, despite all their anti-consumer dishonesty, admits their game is a terrible failure and nobody plays it because it's garbage. I already said that. That also doesn't make this more recommendable to gamers. It's just an open admission of failure, and at least the first bit of honesty we've seen from this untrustworthy developer.
The developer then abruptly decides facts don't matter, and even though my review was wholly factual and important information for gamers considering this cancerous product, admits they can't change the fact they've failed as a game developer.
Nothing in the developers pointless, rambling response, which fails to contradict any of the valid information in my review, but confirms resoundingly their consumer hostile attitude, changes the direct matter of the quality of their game. Reviews are about games, and not the people who fail so badly at making them. It's the quality of the game that matters and the experience that gamers should expect. In this case, Dancing Angels remains mobile tier garbage that should be avoided by all.
I thank the developer for confirming and reinforcing the valid facts of my review and providing additional reasons to avoid this garbage as if it was the bubonic plague.
