Complaint Review: Machine Zone

Machine Zone - Game of War has become an absolute scam. They are releasing new downloadable content multiple times per week, with the prices ranging from $20US to $500US (you read that correctly.)

Even if you spend $100US or so a month, you will not be able to keep up. Every new "feature" they release is promised to be the ultimate/game changer/etc. but then within days, literally, the items you just bought will be basically worthless as they come out with something new.

Not only can you not keep up unless you are spending multiple hundreds of dollars monthly, but your entire city can be destroyed in one attack. That means all the money you spent will pretty much have been wiped away. Not only that, but the new "features" they keep producing are extremely time exhausting. Prepare to click the same button hundreds (if not thousands of times - I wish I were lying.) 

Furthermore, when they market a specific pack, they will tell you that it will level you out/up/max you out in that particular category, however this is never true. You may be able to get 80% of the way there but the last 20% will cost you, usually at least two more packs. 

When you purchase a pack, you can expect approximately 30-40% of the items to either not be in it, or are bait-and-switch items. The "received items" list magically shows only a portion of the whole. However I have compared screenshots of what I was supposed to get and what I received and they don't match up.

You CANNOT level up in this game without spending money. The "events" that award in game prizes now primarily rely upon you spending money (5 of 9 events recently were spend a minimum of $29US.) The rest are basically useless because you can only complete them if you've already spent quite a bit of money and then the rewards are utterly useless. Like being handed potato chips at a poker table useless.

About two months ago, in an effort to hide all of the dead cities (players that completely abandoned the game) they made a massive merge, miscalculated, and now many players are stranded without being able to develop their alliance team. 

Also speaking of calculations, somehow they screwed up their expansion so everything is in a very weird, completely incalcuble ratio. For example, a 100% increase is really about a .00004% increase (to whatever), and everything is now a number system based on millions billions and trillions.... and I mean that I have a statistic that is 1KTTT (one kilo-trillion-trillion-trillion or one decillion if you google it). Not only are these numbers gibberish but their systems cannot do the calculations so you can attack with 1 KTTT against someone who has 7BTT and lose and there is no way to comprehend why.

Lastly, despite coming out with new 'bleep' to buy literally every couple days, the game has become very, very stale. There are no new monsters, no new events. Really it's just constant grinding... I wasn't joking about hitting a button thousands of times.)  And, most likely before you have finished grinding away they will have come out with something new that you have to start back at zero grinding away one.

Oh, and the game crashes constantly and customer service sucks.