Once you have to start spending money, don’t bother – Transformers: Earth Wars Review

I play lots of F2P games, I spend money on all the ones I like, and I liked this one... at first. The first boxes I bought gave me several 4 and 3 star bots (which you need to do anything, 2 star bots get worthless pretty quickly), which seemed appropriate because they cost $20 a piece (which is still very high a price). Then the rewards just stopped coming. Since those first few boxes, I’ve bought maybe 5 more, and 4 of them had ZERO 3 or 4 star bots in them. That means $80 worth of boxes gave me essentially nothing at all worth using. They just gave me duplicate 2 stars, which convert to 3-star shards... so once you get 50 duplicate 2 stars, you get a 3-star. Whoopee. And unlike other F2P games, their free tier of rewards don’t give you anything useful. At best you’ll get another 2 star bot. You can’t get anywhere in this game unless you spend money, and as others have pointed out, if you don’t spend hundreds of dollars, you still won’t get anywhere. This game is exactly how the F2P system is ruining games. It was a decent, fun game, that ultimately was only designed to completely rip its players off. I’ve uninstalled and gone back to games with decent drop rates instead. Shame on the exploitative jerks who made this game.
Review by TheSimulacra on Transformers: Earth Wars.