Rigged and Micro-transactions galore – Rainmaker: Ultimate Trading Game Review

The game, if you’re thinking of downloading, let’s you buy and sell stock based on actual stock history from years past from the 80s up until late 2000s. Fun concept and great when you make money. However, It seems the game has an uncanny ability to match you with stocks that are losers. For instance, once I broke one hundred million dollars, the game matched me with a stock that lost ninety eight percent of it’s value in TWO years.. this is rigged because it’s basically impossible to turn a profit on a stock that tanks this badly. I spent a few hours amassing my one hundred million and lost ninety five percent of it in about twenty seconds. The game obviously wanted me to watch ads or buy “gold” to minimize my losses. I felt it is unfair to give people stocks that lose almost one hundred percent of their value. The game is based entirely on luck as you don’t know what stocks you’re investing in, you just know what industry it’s in. (Energy, Materials, information sector, etc.) not until after you’ve made it lost your money does the game tell you what stock it was, it then gives you some short trivia. For instance, this stock was Enron 2000-2002. (Not an actual example from the game, but you get the idea.) there is nothing informing your decisions. And like most most mobile games, unless you fork over $5 you have to wait for tickets to play more. Boo!
Review by Mikey mike k on Rainmaker: Ultimate Trading Game.