Spin Siege

I hadn’t played in a while, but I’d never deleted the game. I decided to pull it up after the most recent update to see what might be new. What was new was that my profile was now worthless. Sure, my pirate main was still level 22, and sure the map still had me at level 93, but it is categorically impossible for me to ever advance further. Leveling up a hero now takes almost a million coins of a new currency that I can earn at the rate of a few dozen at a time. (Let’s not even talk about what the pain is for my lv 24 witch or lv 27 scientist. Plus my lv 29 knight is apparently maxed out, now.) I can’t pass any more levels because the mobs are MUCH stronger even at low waves than ever before. There’s a new hard currency that I have none of (of course), and the previous hard-ish currency that I have 81k of is now essentially worthless. If I don’t delete the profile data and start over I’ll never pass another level or hero upgrade again. The new economy is designed to soak newbies mercilessly until they see what the scam is. The last update that introduced gear was interesting, but I wasn’t given scaled gear at any time to make sure my strength was appropriate. I’m just hosed and functionally locked out of progress from now on.

I’ve had this game for a while and originally I enjoyed it. That’s until I logged in this week to play and see they pushed a massive update. My characters are now impossible to level due to the new progression system. I’ve beat a few levels and gotten 1,200 upgrade points, to level up I need 20,000,000. Can’t really beat new levels because even though I wasn’t struggling before the update, it’s nearly impossible to progress now. Dying on wave 1 because I didn’t get the right choices. Not to mention there’s a million ads now. They tried to monetize the game and instead destroyed it. Also who’s brilliant idea was “watch an ad for a 10 minute boost” then the add is 3+ minutes long and by the time you can start using your boost 40% of it is already gone. Also every time a level ends it’s obnoxious to flash a “do you want to buy a $50 pack?” A month ago I would have suggested this game, now I say save your time and skip.

Game itself is simple to get into and a little strategic vs RNG. And various heroes with their own style: brute force, debuff, etc. As a drawback, I think it’s a little too simple and might feel repetitive after playing a while. And there is a glitch that forces app closure: if using the bonus card tile too much and if run out of bonus cards to pick when triggered, game is stuck on a blank bonus card screen with nothing to pick and no way to return to game. And I thought there were no ads for a long time, then they eventually get forced onto you, but not terribly obtrusive. I was really disappointed when they finally showed up after such a long while playing.