This game is pure pay to win, they don't even try to hide it. All in game currency (keys, materials, gold) are limited to the point that youThis game is pure pay to win, they don't even try to hide it. All in game currency (keys, materials, gold) are limited to the point that you can't upgrade cards without spending real money. On top of that cards and the upgrade materials are often time limited and could take months or never come back into circulation. So you have to spend, spend, spend if you want to max out a card.
To put it in context, without specials you can pick up 4000 gems (in-game currency) for $40. The current holiday special that lets you straight buy a legendary without praying to RNGesus costs 6,400. So just over $60 to pick up a single, not even max rarity, card.
Since card have multipliers that increase as you evolve them, the more money you spend, the higher you can score in the weekly events. Which means that non-iap players are in for a real rough time when they try to move up in the leagues.
If that money-making strategy isn't enough to send you running, the game has been bugged for months. The first time I submitted a bug report they compensated me with event keys... a week later. Which was like saying, sorry you got cheated out of a top 5 rank, here's some keys for an event you suck at. The second time they gave me more keys for the same week, which was an improvement. But the third week of constant crashing about 40 ~ 60% of the stages that I started, they refused any kind of compensation.
So for losing points, currency spent to replace lost keys, loot from the stages I could have cleared easily, etc the only compensation was more chances to watch the screen go black and dump me to the desktop. Now they're final stance is that the problem is with my device. I'm using a frigging iPad with the most current iOS and patch level for their app. It's not like I custom built a pc from spare parts at a Radio Shack and dumped some Linux distro on it so they can't possibly know how to work with it.
tl;dr The game crashes constantly, you can't win unless you drop literally hundreds of dollars, and the menus are designed by someone with serious ADHD. Everything glitters, sparkles, shines, and moves.… Expand