I foolishly gave the game one more chance once they finally put out the update to fix the last update. It’s worse than I expected. I tried to upgrade a character, he needed like 60 parts! It was more parts than I’ve even collected altogether so far in my gameplay.
Every update has made the game worse and worse, and Rovio obviously doesn’t care about our feedback. I made my account so I could share feedback about how seriously bad things have gotten with this game, and they deleted my first post (and have ignored my requests for an explanation). Then they removed the thread about boycotting the video ads until things are improved.
I was as big a fan of anyone of the first angry birds games. The games were fun, the ads weren’t too intrusive, and there was no pay-to-win. With each successive game, and each successive update on each game, they’ve made it harder and harder to have any fun at all. After the mess that was Angry Birds Epic, I just stopped playing Rovio completely for a while.
I was pleasantly surprised when I decided to give Transformers a chance. The early version was simple, clean, and fun, with minimal ads that actually rewarded you for watching. Sure, you still had to pay for gems if you wanted to play continuously, but I felt like you could advance far and fast without that.
Each update since then has been a slap in the face, and the latest is just unacceptable. The slot machine disguised as a crafting system, the apparent removal of gem farming, and especially the absolute crippling of the character leveling up are all signs of a company that has moved beyond a need to be profitable into the territory of straight up hatred of their own customers. I mean, I haven’t done the math, but I saw someone on another thread say it will take months to level up characters now.
So, to answer your question, I don’t play the game now. I’ve uninstalled it, and I won’t play this or any other Rovio game until I hear news of a major “mea culpa” and change of heart at the company.
