Would give zero stars if I could – Jetpack Joyride Review

Jetpack Joyride used to be a fun and simple skilled-based game. Now, it is buggy, convoluted, and an obvious, aggressive cash grab by the devs. The game has several problems now that it did not have 5 years ago. For one, the game pushes ads on me whenever I finish a run and it’s just downright annoying and wrong. Furthermore, if ever I pause the game and close it, my progress is no longer saved as it once had been years ago. Perhaps Jetpack Joyride has become slightly more RAM intensive over the years, but there is just no way that an iPhone 7 Plus doesn’t have enough memory to run Jetpack Joyride, a game that the iPhone 4S used to run perfectly well in 2012. Finally, the game has a tendency to crash if I try to watch ads to get “free” lives, tokens, and doubled coins in a single run, making me lose not only the bonuses that I watched a minute and a half of ads for but also all the money I had earned and progress I had made in said run. I used to like this game and am willing to revert my review back to five stars if these issues are properly addressed and resolved in the near future. Update: After numerous updates with “patches”, “bug fixes”, and “improvements”, the problems with the ad system have yet to be fixed.
Review by Au5ar on Jetpack Joyride.