Pocket Sort: Coin Merge Puzzle

UPDATE: These developers ROCK. They actually listen to their players and consider their input. The other coin merge games I’ve played don’t compare!!! PREVIOUS: As others have stated, even prior to the Jan 7th update, the game will quickly tell me I’m “Out of Space” when I can see space open up right after that last deal. This completely eliminates the ability for me to decide for myself if (A) I’m stuck and want to replay the level or (B) open up new space to move forward. If I decided to open up new space it would require gems I have on hand, gems purchased in-app or gems earned thru ad rewards. You’re limiting your earnings potential for those willing to pay or watch ads for a new space. Your previous responses state to report a glitch but if Everyone’s having this problem it’s not an isolated glitch in the programming that’s relative to a certain level. Just remove the prompt. Even if I report it, a screenshot as evidence won’t do because the prompt comes up too quick and covers the Entire screen so you won’t see the placement of the coins relative to the open spacing. I thought I was tripping & didn’t pay too much attention but once you watch how the dealt coins rest in that split second prior to the prompt, you watch the potential to progress disappear. At least let me X out so I can see where the coins ended up after the deal.

I absolutely love the game. Was hooked from the start for sure. My only issue, like others have mentioned as well, is the out of moves message even though I have moves I can make. I have noticed, however, that the message appears whenever the move I am able to make would complete a row, but I don’t have “enough room” for all of the coins to fill the row. For example, if I need 3 more coins to finish a row, and I have 5 of them in another row, and that’s the only move I can make, I’ll get the “out of moves” message and then have to restart even though I should be able to finish the row. Other than that, the game is awesome in my opinion. Also, some of the colors of the coins are very similar, but I don’t mind the occasional error due to lack of attention to detail on my end.

So this game was fun for a while. But there are some things I didn’t understand. Some levels can be a challenge, but whatever. The problem is that you have the option to use “power ups” to help you get through a level, but you can’t use them unless you spend lots of coins. You are only earning like 5 coins for completing a level but a power up can cost 250 coins or more. But it seems like some levels have free power ups available if you watch an add, but the free option is not on all levels. Which is weird. There have been many times that I am 99% on a level and had to keep starting over until I finally win. Also, the ads are annoying … but if you spend money, you can get rid of them. I think they purposely make ads pop up while you’re in the middle of a level to throw you off. I don’t know. But I made it to level 335 until I just couldn’t anymore. Trying to get off this level isn’t possible unless you spend money to get through it. Or if you’re lucky, you have save up enough coins to purchase the power ups. It wasn’t a horrible game. It definitely kept my mind busy when I was bored.

This is another one of those games designed to manipulate you through desperation into wasting money into it unless you have the patience and memory to come back every hour to claim your free meager amount of gems. The ads are also excessive, disruptive, repetitive, and the voluntary ones are an entire minute long. Even after I wasted $4 to try and progress I can’t even get to level 50. If I had the coding prowess I would remake this game with only the banner ads at the bottom, gems and daily rewards and lives would have far shorter or no cooldowns, and you can progress as far as you want only having to watch maybe one or two half minute voluntary ads every ten minutes AT MOST. And to get rid of ads I’d only charge $1. I understand wanting to make something off your work but this is borderline exploitative.

Has so much promise to be a good game but falters in so multiple aspects. The game is buggy, it will randomly fail you and say there are no more moves when there is. On the counter of that you can continue to deal out sometimes, with no moves, and the game won’t fail you. UI is poorly managed, the deal button overlaps some of the slots resulting in undesired deals when trying to move coins. The ads are such a nuisance. Constant running banner ads and random pop up breaks. Pick a lane. The pop up ads have the tiniest skip/close button that you are expected to miss click and pull up the store page for the ad. It’s literally faster to force close and relaunch the app than sit through a pointless ad. Genre for this game is a dime a dozen (no pun intended) so I’ll be trying a different app.

It’s fun until you get to about level 20. Then you can’t get any further without spending actual money. Even when you get to “no further moves” and allegedly reset, it doesn’t give you any additional moves or empty spaces. AND, you allegedly get a daily gem bonus, but your gem count doesn’t go up at all. I downloaded it today, but sadly will be deleting it today too. I can’t go any further. I’m only giving it 3 stars because it was fun to start and they’ll delete it if I give it any lower (they’ll probably delete it anyway ).