Needs Apple Arcade version at this point – Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Review

After years of updates, this game has gotten increasingly unplayable for me and I ended up uninstalling. All they did was just put in more ads, more pay-to-win style gameplay, and less rewards, while also taking away most of the content from Adventure mode like levels and music. They force you to 'play' the glitchy Battlez (now called Arena) mode and awful Penny's Pursuit mode for 6 hours a day to be able to earn the new plants in time, and it's probably gotten even harder since I last checked. I'm not entirely against the leveling up plants feature they added, but I don't like it and it basically just incorporates a lootbox-based pay-to-win system. And they keep reducing the amount of things you get from watching ads so you have to watch more. 90% of the game is bugged at this point, poor Adventure Mode is trashed, Penny's Pursuit and Arena keep crashing, and worst of all, they refuse to put all the music back in the game and then call it a bug. What I really really want is an Apple Arcade version of the game, like PVZ2+ or something. No ads, it'd be a relief if the Arena and Penny's Pursuit modes were gone, FIXED MUSIC, and a playable Adventure mode and easier to obtain premium plants would make it the perfect game and probably lots of people would be happy about it on Apple Arcade. It would also be great if they'd put the original (and I mean ORIGINAL one they took down, not the ruined free version buggy ad-filled one that's there now) PvZ there too, because they made the mobile original unplayable as well. As it stands, I am super disappointed about the direction PvZ2 has gone in and will NEVER buy one of their pricey IAPS like their plants and seed slots, not because I don't like the content, but because I do not want to support the developers' marketing decisions in any way.
Review by tomachuuu on Plants vs. Zombies™ 2.