Fan Guru: Events, Exhibit Hall 4+

I missed my photo op with James Tolkan by 4 minutes. He was gone when I got there. Incredibly disappointed. Then to make matters worse, I didn’t get a refund. It’s unconscienceable! I’ve spent quite a bit of money with epic photos over the years, and I apparently need to stop!

I used this app at this year's MegaCon Orlando event and at first it was so great. It was nice to have the ability for an offline map and schedule (because we all know how bad the connection can get) and even used it to purchase nearly last minute tickets got the BTTF Friday panel.

Come Saturday, however, and the app fell apart. That offline map and schedule I thought was so great? Didn't work. Worse yet, the app did nothing but crash. So the one function I was most excited about didn't work when I actually needed it, because the previous two days had no connection issues like Saturday always does.

So I'll give it 3 stars and say it's great when it works and I appreciate it better than Megacon's precious apps. But it needs work and I would still recommend using a backup for your schedule and con floor navigation.

At Project Akon cell service was garbage for me and though not this apps fault it was the main way to get event info for the con. But that said if these apps are to replace paper schedules they have to just work. So my frustrations are one load relevant items 1st if it is 5pm I don’t need it to load the morning items. And often times it would hang before it got to the current items. Or you would almost have what you want to see and it would reload. So what I would like to see is load text 1st that way people can read even if the pictures are loading too slow and default to relevant items. Two implement some app caching so once you have it loaded or perhaps you load off site you have access even if you don’t have cell service.