Was my favorite game, now unrecognizable. Ruined by ‘progress’ – Tropicats: Match 3 Puzzle Game Review

When I started playing over a year ago I enjoyed this game more than any other I’d played. In the last few months ‘updates’ have managed to destroy what was a wonderful game. Like too many other game apps, once ratings, reviews and players are high enough the developers make the game unrecognizable to its original players. Characters were adorable, now they look like cheap plastic toys. Storyline has become ridiculous. And today the gems awarded for completing a level is now 33% less, I’ve watched Wooga reduce the boosts earned when going up a Village rank from three to one. The gems and coins that the Islands’ repaired icons provided daily are reduced by almost 70%. They’ve reduced the gems awarded for completing a challenge by 50% plus it takes far more challenges to repair something on an island. Yet it still costs 70 gems for up to five more moves. It seems to me Wooga wants long time players to leave. We’ve written glowing reviews and attracted lots of new players most of whom won’t care what was, because they will never have known it. This is, after all, a business. And the goal of any business is to make money, nothing wrong with that. What I don’t think is right is that the ratings and reviews you’re probably reading to decide it you’ll download this game, isn’t for the game you’d be downloading. Sadly, that game no longer exists and I’ll miss it terribly.
Review by KNH/me2 on Tropicats: Match 3 Puzzle Game.