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F.A.S.T Turns Free To Force Its In-App Purchases On You, Do Not Update It

December 18, 2009

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F.A.S.T. -- Fleet Air Superiority Training!, one of the App Store's most popular paid games is now available for free, but there is a catch. I noticed it on the App Store this morning and mistakenly believed this was a simple Christmas sale, it's not.

Indeed, the app turned free but only allows you to access a very limited number of missions or planes. If you want to actually enjoy the game you'll have to spend a further couple bucks on in-app purchases.

This is definitely an extremly disapointing move from its developers and especially for those of you who paid the full-price and are now stuck with a trial.

If you haven't yet, do not update F.A.S.T.

***Update

If you already updated, Tom Stitzer, one of our readers just explained how to get back the old version:

The old version SHOULD now be in your trash or recycle bin, or will be once you sync. If you haven't synced yet, what i would do is, drag a copy of the old app from your itunes and make a copy of it somewhere for safe keeping, make sure it's not the new update. Delete it off your iPhone/Touch. Sync. THe old version should be restored, but your old scores and stuff might not be.

IF you've already synced, just look in the trash for the old version. Delete the new version from your device and from iTunes and then drag the old version back into iTunes and sync. That should do it. Just never update it, never use the update all, because then you're back to the new in-app purchase version.

Thanks for the tip Tom!

***Update, Apparently some of the updates would be free of charge if you bought the game earlier. We are getting confusing reports about this, I'll be looking into it to set the record straight.

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F.A.S.T. -- Fleet Air Superiority Tactics!
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