Wtf

All to sell a $20 two month pass. Definitely not a micro transaction. There be whale hunting going on.

@dixie Well, at least this is the most appropriate title of a topic that I’ve ever seen.

Knowing that most of the world is self-isolated, with little else to do, they decided that this would be a good time to spring a money grab on those of us who play this game.

Nope, not getting any of my money, and if I ever do play the game, I won’t allow any videos to play. So there’s also a loss of ad money (from me), for them.

I took the first week off and came back yesterday to give it a shot. What a slog. Looks like they’ve nerfed EMPs into oblivion. Simply upgrading bots requires resources that are scant. Acquiring spark and crystals is nearly impossible now – most of that moved into the way overpriced war pass.

I’ve always been happy to drop $5 here and there for a game I like and get some value out of. I like supporting good devs. R/E makes this hard. I’ve always felt insulted by their pricing and practices – like you can feel their disdain for their customers. So I don’t spend in ABT and certainly won’t be paying $20 for a pass that seems to exist just to make their game tolerable at this point.

If the pass were $5 I would buy it and considered it a step in the right direction. If it was $10 I might even give it a shot. In fact I would be willing to bet they would make more money at $10 than at $20 because they’d get more than twice the takers. They might even make more at $5. That number seems to be working well for Supercell, which makes gobs of money.

Can you imagine the gall to charge $20 for a season pass and still have ads in your game! Unreal!!

Okay I just decided to cache out my tokens and stop playing this week’s horrible event where you lost points for shooting stuff. I bought one gold crate and I got… 250 pig!!! They’ve actually nerfed gold crates too now. To hell with these clowns.

I crash then crash then I crash and so on. Then it works YAY. O back to crash and crash.

@vabeachguy,  do the levels and rewards keep going past 50?

I made this account simply to inform Rovio I’m deleting their app.  This is beyond greed and during a pandemic they decided to gouge people more.  I will no longer support this greedy company or it’s products.  I hope others feel the same.

@vabeachguy I have noticed the same. But I think it has been that way from the beginning – although everything else you shoot in the Spark run gets counted 🤷🏼‍♂️

@vabeachguy

Spark Run does NOT contribute to the following (always been this way):

• Pigs total (totals on the map, Leaderboards cumulative total, War Pass totals)
• Coins

It does count for the following:

• Daily quests objectives (ie. pop 500 of any pig, etc..)
• Achievements (if applicable)
• Sparks (only after completion)

Dixie I have found the same. I had one over 200,000 next thing another went from 40,000 to over 200,000 then my score went from 40,000 to 90,000 plus. What is going on????????

Hay Dixie is that you who I am playing against. You gave me a run for my money. Jdfive and Sek have got 200,000 plus.