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Xenohart
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I’m not as high level as many players simply because Rovio lost my info in two upgrades and over 400 ranks. I’ve built back up again – but when I see the bots UNnormalize, and they become worthless, that’s really unpleasant. In the spawns, they push their new bots that are all but worthless, forcing us to spend gems to get to grimlock. There have been so many evolutions and changes to this game from the beginning and it’s clear that none of them came from player feedback. The same bugs during special events existed back during regular events in the beginning. Rovio has done nothing to fix this, and customer support offers solutions such as: reboot your phone. It’s not the phone, or the tablet (for a lot of the problems). Yes, it’s hard to program a game to work across multiple platforms and their accomplishments have been pretty good. Their dedication to graphics, great. Their failure on music, epic. But, they still try to push us into spending money to play their games. It’s still a fact that they force the phones to unlock all its features to them (including the ability to make phone calls??), because they monitor behavior and this, like Facebook and Google, brings them huge profits – HUGE. They didn’t get into the 9 – 10 digit IP figure selling 10 million people a $0.99 cent game.

Our efforts and our work in Angry Birds is unlike any other gaming platform. We have to agree to unlock our phones and tablets so they can monitor our behavior and sell it. Aka, they make money off of us keeping their games installed. So – we ARE paying for these services and they DO have an obligation to their players. Seriously, from an Optimus Prime and Bumblebee that were, and are, still worthless, to levels that don’t accurately correspond to character levels and competitions that even top players with high level transformers can’t compete in (and it’s more than just ‘competition’ and ‘skill’, when someone can garner 45,000 points repeatedly which could ONLY come from buying crystals – although – I still don’t buy the argument that the players are all real), this game is getting bunked. It’s like all their others.

It was fun. It had the potential to grow. They could have expanded the cloudy island for what … two years now? The ‘coming soon’ mystery has been since day 1 – and that’s a LONG time for ‘soon’. They aren’t putting more money into making the game better. They make transformers that are just extensions of the original – not new. They make powers that are just modifications of the original – not new. They are not adding new level backgrounds, the music is bunk, and the glitches are rampant. This is not an ‘upgrading’ game. There are hundreds of options they can do. And, I know that if I’ve proposed a few dozen, so have other players. That is evidence – they don’t listen.

Oh well. I was enjoying it. Maybe if we all quit and give up all our hard work, the next generation will get a cool game and look cooler and sound better. It’ll be like everyone who thought Super Mario was neat watching the next generation rock ’em at Halo. How depressing …

“ROVIO!” “ARE YOU OUT THERE?” “You have a chance to make a million players happy — who will encourage a million more players – who will encourage a million more after that! Just LISTEN to the players and stop spending time on how to milk us for money, but how to make the game MORE awesome! (or at least, don’t mess up what was there!)”