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DJLarryt
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Meh.

I just managed to get my birds to Diamond level 8 and now there’s even MORE levels to build to? To what eventually, 15x score? And what does score get you besides nothing? 3 Stars are easy enough to achieve per screen. Oh wait, you reached the finish line? Look, we just raised the bar so you keep on running. How about that?

So we get more ways of potentially winning feathers but the demands have also been increased, which cancel one another out in an attempt to keep players in the game. So the treadmill of game in, game out continues.

Just tried the ‘winning streak’ challenge in the arena and encountered an opponent with 5 level 9 birds ALREADY (plus 5 spells). Really… lost by a landslide so the playing up to that point was almost nullified and that time was wasted because I’m not even NEAR getting a gem prize for placement (the current leader is up to 798 stars, probably a hacker). More carrots dangled in the face.

As mentioned in another thread, I got 100 feathers plus 3x spells from the DC today (I paid 60 gems to complete it too). Afterwards, I paid for a premium chest: 1 pig inflator.

Annoyed, I paid for another premium chest: 2 duckling spells.

Determined to break the streak I paid for ONE MORE premium chest in an attempt to get some feathers: 1 Chili spell.

So in all, I wasted 300 gems and got 7 spells and 100 feathers in return. That’s not very encouraging considering I get spells for free from friend gifts. But I guess that’s Rovio’s way on controlling it so we don’t level up too fast and to keep us in the game so eventually we run out of gems and are forced to buy buy buy (which is no secret, generating revenue is their sole purpose for even creating these products).

Therefore it seems like there’s lots changed, there’s shiny fireworks all over the stage but functionality is not much different. We’re still stuck on the hamster wheel trying to level up our birds and playing world after world after endless world. Sorry to be so negative about Rovio and this game, but it seems that I am going to burn out before I ever get any satisfaction from playing AB2.

One thing I enjoyed about their previous games is that there was a goal… an endpoint… you enjoyed making it there and then you moved onto one of their other incarnations. This is not so with AB2. It seems Rovio is going to keep on adding levels and rooms until they start making a profit, which at this point, I doubt is going to happen due to all the hackers and people dropping the app.

BTW “Watch Video for free entry” to the Arena doesn’t work, so don’t waste your time or bandwidth.

***Update**** yes it does work. You get tickets instead of immediate play.