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Today is the day I finally give up on arena. The purpose of a video game is entertainment, and the frustration that the arena is starting to cause is not worth it anymore. I’m level 36, diamond league (or whatever it’s called), and I can no longer use the Golden Pig Machine to get new set items (mine are all about 7 levels old now, so I’d like better ones), because every day, I need to spend 20 coins (which are outrageously expensive) to revive my birds. They give stupid daily challenges that you need to win just to have a chance to advance (use two useless bird classes at the same time, kill 3 birds with one attack, but Chuck’s rage ability doesn’t count, etc.). I just lost 6 battles in a row. I play vs players that are several levels below me, yet somehow they have 500+ health more per bird, and are doing over 100 more damage than I am. Then suddenly I’ll play someone with a higher level, but their entire team has practically no health. Oh, and if you’re going to use a coin toss for the starting turn animation, you should have a 50/50 chance. If not, find something that actually makes sense.
Before the last update, this game was fun. Granted, the computer was pretty stupid, but it worked. Once you figured out a team that you liked, you could reliably win. Now they computer gets the first turn at least 65% of the time, and is actually smart, which is totally necessary since somehow all of the other players are already way more powerful than me, despite the lower level. I won’t spend my time trying to come up with some team that works when the computer is that much more powerful.
And then after all of this, I have to spend 20 coins to get my birds back? Is that a joke? You know what in-app purchases should do? They should save you time. A game should not be any harder to complete without paying money, it should just take longer. I’ve given Epic more than enough of my money over the years, but all of the bugs that are in this game and the fact that it’s becoming less entertaining and more frustrating day by day is not the way to make me spend more (and I won’t). So 20 coins to get your birds back, and the fastest you can get coins (not counting the hilarious +3 for gaining a level) is 28 from the Golden Pig levels. And after all of this, competing in the tournament doesn’t help you in the main game at all.
The idea of the arena is cool, but it’s been nothing but problems since day 1 (even when I could actually complete the daily challenges without too much of an issue, except for having to revive maybe once ever few days). I’m going back to saving my coins for the Golden Pig Machine. If the game doesn’t become more entertaining, I might just uninstall all-together. It’s too bad. I think Epic was one of the best mobile games I’ve played, but it’s clear that Rovio isn’t what it used to be since Angry Birds is no longer the most popular mobile game, and they’re trying to get money out of their games with the most replay value (Friends tournaments and Epic; I don’t know about Go, I’ve never tried it).