Talk:Game Updates/@comment-4738639-20130919172220/@comment-25545081-20130920064542

Hey Bane, I understand your concern - it can be unsettling when our devices are no longer supported by Apple with updates, but I think you are over-reacting a bit.

If the game continues indefinitely in to the future, then yes eventually BFS will drop support for iOS older than 7, but we are still very far away from that. You are "hop[ing] that this upgrade isn't going to force things more quickly than in the past," but that is nothing new as many users before you have needlessly worried this. There is no base for such a concern and I haven't ever noticed it come to fruition in the past.

Whether you were aware of it from a user's perspective or not, but there are honestly a large portion of apps which have OS/system exclusive coding. A well known example of this is fitting the larger screen for iPhone 5. Meeting these independent requirements will be nothing new for BFS.

The only devices not on the iOS 7 compatible list which were iOS 6 compatible are the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch (4th gen). Those devices are about three years old, which is around the standard time for these devices to quit receiving OS updates - so this didn't come unexpectedly soon for these devices.

A note on the iPod 2nd gen and older devices... That devices is five years old this month. I don't know how the lifespan of the hardware in 2nd gen devices compares to the 1st gen, but my friend's 1st gen iPhone's wireless card simply quit working over two years ago. While five years may be reasonable to expect of a computer, these mobile devices often take a lot more "wear and tear" going around with us - and this area of technology was just beginning to develop when the 2nd and 1st gens were released to add to the unreliability of the hardware. Most (if not all) of the 2nd gen iPod touches have probably reached their lifespan for the hardware to be able to function reliably now anyways.

Hardware and software no longer being supported is nothing new, and has been happening in the computer industry since before I was born - yet the users prevail. Unless you use everything until it blatantly refuses to run, I honestly expect that you will seek out a newer device before the iPod 4th gen quits receiving support. Hopefully something in this quenched your worry.