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Everything I said in my long-winded post was valid. But here is a much simpler reason I have lost the desire to play this game:
In Angry Birds Evolution, you cannot enjoy the core gameplay very often.
If you want to play regular old Angry Birds, you want to slingshot birds into pigs, houses, TNT, and such any time you want. That is how you play the game; it’s what makes the game fun to play. If you want to play Angry Birds Epic, you want to choose a team and defeat a team of pigs any time you want – the strategy of fighting is the fun. If you want to play Super Mario Run, you want to run Mario through levels and collect coins and get to the end, any time you want – that’s what is fun. If you want to play Words With Friends – you want to spell words for large amounts of points – any time you want, and if you run out of friends to play with you can start a solo game. Spelling words is what is fun!
When I play Angry Birds Evolution, I want to slingshot my birds into a square filled with pigs. Use strategy to hit them from behind, use the most effective Super Shots, etc. That is the CORE GAMEPLAY of the game! It’s what makes the game fun! But there are only two ways to do that: (1) Wait an hour for a scout to revive, then get to play 1-2 battles or (2) Win 10 arena battles – which I don’t enjoy, can take quite awhile, and indeed HAS ITS OWN TIME LIMIT – to get 10 keys so you can do a dungeon and enjoy one 3-wave battle.
I want to fight! I want to battle pigs! But I can’t do it any time I want. I cannot simply open the game and enjoy the CORE GAMEPLAY of the game any time I want! In fact, I can only enjoy battling once or twice per hour!
With 10 minute timers, you still had to wait A FEW MINUTES after you used up all scouts. But basically you could ACTUALLY PLAY THE CORE GAMEPLAY of the game pretty much any time you wanted. With 1 hour timers, you ALMOST NEVER can.
If you think about it, when you spend real money to purchase gems or berries to revive your scouts, you are literally paying Rovio just to play the basic functionality of their game. Sure, you do this for MMORPGs, but for an Angry Birds game?!
Yeah, yeah, another long-winded post I know. But after I thought about it for awhile, I finally realized what REALLY killed the game.