Prepare to be aggravated – World Hockey Manager 2024 Review

Playing this game over the last few months I can say this game is addictive to play if you attempt to progress without “paying to play”. To do so will require continuous daily achievement maintenance. Here in lies the games issues. While there is a mild strategy to the type of play you assign your team, most everything revolves around player stats vs opposing player stats. As with most pay to play games; if your 50 grade team plays another 50 grade team, prepare to loose 80% of the time. You will regularly loose to teams you show advantages to as well, until the tables tip heavily. So be stronger than the opponents.... got it. Do the daily’s, which require defeating similarly ranked opponents to get coins and power ups to beef up the team. IF you can spend enough time to do this over a few days to a week consistently, you begin to gain ground on the opponents, slowly out ranking them and making it a bit easier. Every 20 days rank groups get reset and your advantage is back to square 1. While this is happening, player contracts are expiring and getting progressively expensive. Eventually beyond the point of which you can accumulate funds to afford in the allotted time. Thus loosing key players and thwarting progress. Still interested? Great! Who doesn’t love a challenge? If this was all of the games flaws I might still attempt to play. However, during these 20 day rank resets, daily, hourly and weekend challenges you are clawing against odds to progress (and spending currency every time you attempt) you are promised winnings for many levels of attempting including big ‘carrots’ for winners. Well, at least once per week prepare for your hard work to be for nothing as the game crashes during payout and you now spent your hard earned currency and time for nothing. Game thinks you received payout, your currency totals obviously are the dwindling same as they were. No support button to report an issue. No one to email. Sorry, must have been a fluke, right? Nope, this happened EVERY 20 day period at least once. Long review, kinda liked the game. Couldn’t imagine being swindled out of cash to play this game only to have it rob you.... literally.
Review by larog1980 on World Hockey Manager 2024.