Never playing a Glu Game again – Disney Sorcerer's Arena Review

I’m gonna be upfront. I’m here posting this because Glu ruined a different game with their greedy, money gouging practices. I almost didn’t leave this here, but looking at the reviews and this game, it’s clear Glu does this often. Examples next paragraph. Skip ahead for the conclusion. So Glu made a decent game. But they quickly made every single aspect of it HIGHLY monetized. Just to leave a comment in the message boards cost gold (the currency that translates to real money). The game had nonstop competitive events, which was great. But doing well required for you to either play the game every half hour all day every day, drop real money into the game, or get extremely lucky and get certain characters for free AS they have an event bonus. Suffice to say, the most successful people were the ones dropping hundreds weekly. This wouldn’t be the worst problem except powering up your characters required the materials that you earn for doing well. So you’re getting squashed by someone who spent 200 bucks, and the result is that they get the gear to upgrade further. Literally pay to win. We also hit a point where we weren’t getting any new characters, just copies of old characters. So you’d unlock a guy and put those rare materials into him, and then the next weekend they start selling the EXACT SAME CHARACTER with slightly better stats and some truly amateurish touch ups to the artwork. I had 3 versions of 1 character once, and NONE of them were the version needed for that events bonus. The game was out for just over a year. And then suddenly glu gave us a 2 month countdown to the shut down of the game. And like 3 days after that, they turned off all of the competitive gameplay, leaving many of us with unused in game currency as we believed we’d be playing for another month or so at least. They’re also still letting the game rake in as money, which seems inappropriate considering they stopped investing anything in the game 6 months ago. TLDR: Glu heavily monetizes their games for a “Pay to Play” environment unlike any I’ve ever seen as a gamer. And they’re 200% willing to ignore the player base if the game isn’t their main seller while still draining money from them. dont plat Glu.
Review by Grimly Noted on Disney Sorcerer's Arena.