Pretty good, but some major problems. – Dragons: Rise of Berk Review

Hi there. I’ve been playing this game for years, and I enjoy it ok, but I do have some big problems with it. First of all, recently in gauntlets there has been this thing called “Lives”. These have been around for a while, but now they get taken away every time you play a level in the gauntlet. What they USED to do (which is much better) is one was taken away every time you lost, and that made sense. But now one is taken away no matter if you win or lose, which just doesn’t make any sense at all. And it takes like 20 minutes for them to regenerate, and every 20 minutes it brings back just one, so it takes about an hour and a half to regenerate the full five. But of course, you can spend TWO WHOLE DOLLARS to just regen the full five immediately, which is just another scam which should be taken away. There’s already too many in this game. Also, the Light Fury can only be accessed through the “dragon riders” that you have to pay a subscription to access. I find a problem with this. At the very most, the Light Fury should be a legendary dragon, but you shouldn’t have to pay an insane amount of money to get it (ten bucks a month, really?). That’s another problem with this game. This “dragon riders club”. It gives you a ton of exclusive advantages just you you can make more money. On the explanation-type thing that’s a golden toothless head in the menu, it says “get 4 bags in exploration! Plus 150 hanger spots! Plus 50% Odin’s coins! ...and many more surprises!” That’s the thing, though. They’re not surprises. You broadcast all these aMazInG things you get with dragon riders, and don’t leave out a single detail so the consumers know every little advantage they’re getting by paying yet more money. Pathetic. If you’re reading this PLEASE put the words “golden toothless” in your response. That way I know you read the whole thing. If you do not say “golden toothless” in your response, you didn’t take the ten minutes of your precious time to read a review from a customer with genuine problems with the game. This is yet another issue. The absurd prices. To get good dragons, you pretty much have to pay. It’s also way too hard to get legendary dragons, and even after playing for years, I still only have one. Another thing is, I once randomly lost everything in my game, and I had premium dragons, and I was very far in, where getting a million wood was small. It just randomly reset one day. I contacted your company and luckily, a few days later my progress was restored, but it also happened to my friend who plays the game, and he wasn’t able to restore his progress. Sometimes when I open the app, it just randomly crashes and I have to reopen it. Another problem is, it takes WAY too much amber to get statues. It took multiple months to get enough to get the skrill statue, and it doesn’t even help that much. Another issue is that, sometimes, in Gobber’s duties, one of them is to defend Berk, but one you reach around the 90th level of defending berk, it’s pretty much impossible to get 3 keys. Yet ANOTHER issue I have is that it costs waaaaay too much to upgrade the hanger. It should cost wood, not runes, and even if does cost runes, you should either lower the price by at least half or expand the amount of spaces you get for doing it. I mean seriously, 300 runes for just 10 extra spaces? Not worth it at all. Those are pretty much the only issues I have with this game, and to be honest, I’d say the best thing about it is the art and animation. I get if you keep the absurdity of all the paying you have to do in order to get decent dragons, but please, PLEASE fix the gauntlet thing. (Even though you’ll probably do absolutely nothing because MONEY). It’s really annoying for me, and probably a bunch of other people too. It would be really appreciated all around. (Even though you probably won’t even read all of this, and just have one of those stupid auto-generated responses like “Oh, we’re soooo sorry you have a negative experience with the game. We hope blah blah blah” and not change a single thing about it. Well, at least other people with issues about this game will be able to read it. Just seriously, though, fix the gauntlet thing, I’m begging you.?) Sincerely, a veteran game player
Review by Veteran game player on Dragons: Rise of Berk.