Pocket ZONE

While the game is enjoyable and is easy to pick up and play for a few minutes at a time. Why I am not giving the game a higher rating for two reasons. 1) I have encountered player killing bugs where my character has died for no reason, making me lose all my hard earned items. 2) I had made some in app purchases and had later decided to make a new character since I didn’t like my original class selection with its limitations to not great weaponry. I still had a large amount of premium currency and I figured that would still exist even for the new character (since I payed actual money and was unused) however, that is not the case, as it appears the premium currency is tied to the character made at that point in time. It feels like wasted money down the drain being unable to use the extra currency I had payed for. To clarify, it did have a warning message saying that the character would be permanently deleted, but I thought the premium currency would be tied to the player account, not the specific character.

Originally planned on rating 5 stars and raving about how good the game is. Now I will be rating 1 star and deleting the game. I’ve spent $100+ on this game. I went into the official discord, which has the devs in it, to ask for help in-game. There is a rule on the discord stating ‘no leaving out necessary info in screenshots’. I did not break this rule. Instead of 1 screenshot showing my whole screen, I split it into 2 halves to make it better readable since the text is small. As soon as I posted, the dev replied to me in all caps using curse words, getting angry, and yelled at me to read the rules. I asked which rule I broke. He then got even angrier and said he will be “punishing” me even more for not knowing which rule I broke. I tried to reason with him and say that my screenshots individually are zoomed in, but together they show the entire screen. He then got even angrier for me “talking back” and muted me for 3 days. If that wasn’t enough, he then accused me of having cheated to get items that I paid $100+ for. He publicly stated he’s going to go search for my account and see where I got the items from. He was silent after because he likely saw how much I’ve spent on the game. Users were literally defending me after saying both screenshots together showed the whole screen, but he just kept saying I was trying to act ‘smarter’ than him by trying to reason with him. I have screenshots of the entire exchange that can verify everything. The developer has many in-game messages talking about how he is a solo dev and needs our support. Yet when he has our support, this is how we get treated. Do not get this game.

I played this game a while ago and it seemed unfinished, but now it plays a lot better, no pay to play mechanics, i do just fine without any transactions and it doesn’t get boring with all the items, artifacts, factions , quests and enemies. A couple quality of life improvements i would suggest are: the option to drop stuff while raiding, sometimes my inventory gets full and the only option is to consume something, i don’t think there is an option to drop stuff and a minor improvement would be the option to stack things in the city stash, if you have for example 2 waters and you drag a 3’rd one on top they will switch places instead of stacking, you need to drag all of them in the inv and then put them back in order to stack them. But great game! Keep up the good work and please don’t ruin the game by adding pay to play mechanics, sad to see so many games fall in this way. Can’t wait for new updates