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DaBoid
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After making some poor decisions early on (wasting Mace Windu to collect coins grrrr), I have been very careful in my use of precious characters and coins.

I have six rewards levels left to open:

Leia
Carbonite Hans Solo
Lando

Boba Fett
Stormtrooper
Tusken Raider

All other levels are three-starred.

Since April 20, I have kept track of every carbonite melt character. The characters that appear in regular game play appear again and again. I have, eg, 16 Anakin Ep II.

A few of the non-regular-play characters have appeared in carbonite melts, though not nearly as often as the others. Jabba has appeared twice, and only one character given. Luckily, when I got the second one I was able to (just barely) clear his reward level points minimum. (Remember, I started keeping track on April 20. The coins and carbonite melt appeared in the update in early April.)

Of the six I listed above, only Lando has appeared in a carbonite melt and that was only once. The other five have never appeared, since I started keeping track.

Because I stopped wasting coins on characters willy-nilly and realized that the whole purpose of this game is to get players to use real money to buy more coins and thus more characters, I have been exceedingly careful with my coins. I have watched the sales and have picked up some characters “cheap”. I now have 4728 coins and need only 2570 to buy the remaining six I lack to finish the game. I could do that, but I won’t.

Why not? Because there is another level “coming soon” with unknown numbers of game-play characters, unknown coins and unknown new characters. Having gotten burned before by spending without careful thought, I am not going to spend again until I know what is in this next level and/or levels after that.

Part of my own game challenge is to complete the game without spending any more real money.

Hoping that Rovio is reading this message thread, I will offer some observations.

I am not happy with the idea that after having spent real money to buy a game, a game I do in fact enjoy, I am put in the position of spending more real money to finish the game. If I get to the point where my coins are spent, and carbonite melts are discontinued or yielding nothing but low-value characters, then I will abandon the game and might, perhaps, abandon Angry Birds entirely. There are lots of other games out there and if I feel I’m being jerked around by Rovio, then I might just vote with my feet and take my business elsewhere.

One of the reasons I like Angry Birds is that the entire puzzle is visible at once. It’s like Sudoku, crossword puzzles or Freecell. I can see the entire problem at once. Unlike Bad Piggies, I don’t have to memorize twists and turns off screen. I tried Bad Piggies, but abandoned the game in Level 1-7. I had a look at the Sandbox levels, and said “forget this”. Similarly, I am pretty much unwilling to try Angry Birds Go. Like Bad Piggies, I don’t get the impression that in AB Go I can see the entire puzzle at once. I think the characters are cute, but I am not willing to play a game with cute characters when the basic game is not that fun. The Reds Mighty Feathers variation got to be a real drag, and I abandoned it when after much trial, I was unable to complete Level 15. It required a bunch of “perfect shots” and was ridiculously difficult. It was no longer fun and it’s out of my life forever.

If Rovio developers are reading this message, I urge them to throw more of the scarce characters into the carbonite melt so people like me who have already bought the game with real money can finish the game without having to spend more real money. I am tired of seeing yet another Jedi Youngling or R2D2 when I have never seen Leia or Boba Fett.

Another suggestion to revive interest is to sell characters in bundles of one or two rather than a minimum bundle of 10. I am unwilling to spend coins on ten characters when I only need one or two to break through the reward level minimums. The “sales” bundles are interesting when I can buy, for example, only 5 of a needed character for less than half the price of the usual bundle of 10.