PlayOcean® 4+

These are the worst apps I have downloaded to my iphone. Being an IT technology director with a software development background, I am embarrassed with the inconsistencies and quality issues. First I cannot figure out why Princess create 6 apps, when all these features could have been nicely consolidated into a single app. Even though the look and feel was attempted to be consistent, it is obvious that separate development teams and/or companies developed these apps. It is frustrating that something as simple a login screens were not unified. Why do I have to log in separately to each of the 6 apps. The appropriate way to design these is to persist the login credentials in the IOS database and share across the family of apps. It is further frustrating that the OceanReady app knows exactly which journey I am embarking on, yet after several attempts to enter my reservation # and date of birth on the OceanCompass app, it claims that the combination is invalid. This is very sloppy. Another area that was not done well was the OceanReady photos cropped and stored off-center.

This is part of a bundle of half-baked terrible apps that are more gimmicky than useful or entertaining. While each app has its own issues, and the way that they’re all tied together (or not tied together) also has issues, this one has its own problems too. Mainly...the games are miserable. The kiosks on the ship poorly integrate games that don’t even make sense to play on the screen of a ship. Maybe a scavenger hunt or escape room would be good. It’s weird to play a 20 question trivia game while waiting 1 minute for an elevator. Also, there’s no mention of the gaming onboard the ship and seemingly nobody facilitating the gaming at sea games which seem like they’re supposed to be widespread games played on a big monitor near the pool or something.

Every time I try to add my fully paid cruise to this app, it continually states it can’t link to my account. Really, can you please make a more useless app than this — probably not. Hope someone from Princess reads these reviews and finds out how poorly the money was spent for these TOTALLY USELESS apps :(