You get ahead by spending $$, not by playing – Graffiti Wars Review

I had to drastically lower my rating of this game after playing for a while. It's set up so that the only real way to get ahead is not to go out and tag things, but simply to pay the game designers more and more $$$ through in-app purchases so you can then sit home and long-distance overtag everybody else, like user "thebrush" does. It's almost impossible to get what you need to do this in-game, you pretty much HAVE to pay for it. That makes it not fun, not a game, and just an expensive waste of time. The developers also permanently closed down the user forums "for maintenance" and don't respond to user reports, so basically, this "game" appears to be nothing but a cash cow that they sit and ignore while the money rolls in. And to that the fact that some users (thebrush again) use it for nothing but a way to harass strangers with lewd and obscene insults, and you have a completely not-fun experience. I wouldn't be surprised if "thebrush" works for the developers, because as soon as he starts screwing with you, you have to start spending a fortune on in-app purchases to protect your tags, otherwise all your tags suddenly turn into ones saying you "are gay" (or much cruder... Parents, don't let your children play this, they allow VERY offensive in-game tags), and the developers never respond to complaints about this. And he seems to have infinitely deep pockets to buy more and more tag protection and long-distance over tags. EXTREMELY suspicious. Expensive & not at all fun. I'm being generous by giving then 2 stars for this experience, only because I found a drawing the graffiti kind of fun.
Review by ShoobyTaylor on Graffiti Wars.