Love the game, one issue

There’s a lot of stuff to do to keep you busy, they update regularly, the GUI is easy to navigate, there’s usually good sales, the events are fun, they make unlock-able costumes that you have to earn, and feel accomplished for doing so, there’s mini games in the game that are actually like the ads for the game. The list goes on why I like this game. I have one very minor problem though. As a leader of a gang that uses a lot of chat I find it hard to communicate with my team because of the character limit. I’m pretty sure my team feels the same way when they have to scroll through the many messages, like in cases like when trying to explain strats during wars, or things to members that are new to the game. I end up sending so many messages, for example the other day: Sending like 4 maxed out messages to explain something to a player that started when the game came out, and is getting back into it now because there’s been so many changes. It’s doable, and only a minor inconvenience. It’d be awesome to remove, or raise it even more than you did in the past, though. And maybe add that read more button so we don’t have to scroll for ever to get past the message.

Love the Game, But Not the Latest Events

I have been playing for a little over three months now, and have enjoyed the game enough to subscribe to the $5 monthly membership. I enjoy the grind, the gang activities, and seeing my power levels rise relatively quickly, and I always look forward to the weekend and weekly events. The weekend events can get pretty time intensive, but the weekly events are usually pretty fun, change things up a bit, and are over without too much sustained attention throughout the week. One of the things I like about this game is I don’t have to be on the game constantly to achieve peak progress and can focus on work, my family, and other leisure activities while still feeling like a relatively top-performing player. Lately, however, the events (two of the last weekly events and the next scheduled one) have been bad spin-offs of the weekend events. You cannot achieve even all of the standard rewards without spending diamonds or $$$ on them (normally premium rewards are available for a cost), even with the membership. Normally there is no problem getting all the standard rewards, but these new events are time-intensive during the week and require microtransactions to complete. This is a severe detriment to my game experience. This review would return to a 5 star review if traditionally weekend events are not used in place of the weekly events.

I like the game but…

I’ve been playing for a while now, and I do like the game. I guess you could say I’m a regular. Why is it so hard to earn loot such as gaining more capos? When you reach around rank 23-25, game drastically slows down and your forced to invest money into the game because you can’t upgrade legendary capos anymore and it’s just too tough to even come across legendary shards or legendary capos. What if you don’t have the money to invest in the game? I understand the game needs to stay afloat and what not. However you come into the game and earn legendary capos at a rapid pace then get shut down and have to start spending money. I feel like the only thing that should be difficult to earn is the mythical capos, but even at that there should be more of those shards and we should certainly see a lot more earning of legendary capos, legendary capo cards, and legendary capo shards as they are in the game from the very beginning. If people don’t want to spend money on the game and or don’t have said money, then you’ll lose that percentage of players because you win and level up so quick then get slapped with disappointment when you can’t level up anymore because you don’t come across the things you need to do so. I’ll continue to play but it’s gotten a tad bit ridiculous at this point. Pleeeeeaaase may we see more legendary loot? :)

Great game.

I have played lots of idle games over the years and when I saw an ad for this game I decided to give it a try. Once I started getting into the high level streets I decided I really like this idle game. It’s one of the best idle games I have played because there is a lot of idle and non-idle things to do. Like if you need to level up your capos, you can get cigars by doing the cigar fights or also the prison breaks. If you don’t have any cigars, then you can try to complete objectives for your street to earn some. If all of those don’t work (which is highly unlikely) then that’s where the idle stuff comes in. I love this game because there are so many things to do and it’s very easy to do those stuff. I have been playing for about 2 days and already I am at rank 10. Even tho I am about to completely rule my entire city, there is still so many more things for me to do. Like upgrading and leveling up my capos to purple stars so I can completely rule the world. It really feels like your a mob boss and does a great job giving you stuff mob bosses would usually do. This idle is a one of a kind and one of the best I’ve played so far, which is why I am giving it 5 stars. I hope the developers continue to update and make the game better.

Love it all.. except this.

So first of all I absolutely love this game. It’s something I find that I keep coming back to no matter what other games I switch up. I love the mini events that go for a few days. Love that there’s SO many different things you can do. I wish some things like the talents and some upgrades and things like that had a little more explanation on how to use them so I’ve just kinda learned as I got there. The ONLY thing I’m not liking about this game is that since the thanksgiving update, sometimes when it’s loading the game or switching back to the mini games it will completely freeze my phone. I’m not talking like 30 second freeze either. It literally will not let me do a SINGLE thing on my phone, can’t even lock or restart it, for at least 5 solid minutes. The last couple times it’s been upwards of 10. I know that it’s the game because absolutely nothing else has had any issue like this except for the minor 1/2 sec lag here and there when I’m doing a lot. Overall I absolutely love this game and I keep coming back to it but I’m getting really frustrated with this freeze.

Really Great Idle Game!

I have played a plethora of idle games and have enjoyed them... but to an extent. At a point in the game you get bored and it gets repetitive. Then as the cycle goes, I delete the app after maybe 3 months and download a new one. This idle game is the best exception. I figured it would go the same. Download, enjoy, get bored, delete & repeat. I was so pleasantly surprised to find so much more to the game. Things that keep you interested like upgrading cards for better management and for other key parts of the game. Which although is pretty normal, you find yourself really enjoying getting new capos and giving them stars. If you’re stuck on a mission or quest—up at the top of the screen, then you have mini games to get prizes and you have fights to get cigars which fuel your cards (capos). I love that there are also multiple fighting experiences. Fights, prison break, arena, and a chance to gamble and wager your cigars on top players. Plus there is so much more you can do like finding gear. I absolutely recommend this game if you love idle games and wish idle games had something ‘more’. 5/5 for me.

Free to Play players avoid

The game is good, don’t get me wrong. However, it feels like they REALLY want your money. The balancing feels stacked against you as every level requires you to have your characters (Capos) leveled up to a certain benchmark in order to make an income. The problem lies in the fact that the upgrading currency (cigars) is slow to build up, and the only way to hurry it is to use premium (real money) to hasten to pace. There is no way to watch ads for premium currency, and the ads that give you cigars do not load. This issue with cigar ads has been addressed by the developers, but has not been fixed with the new update. Even if you do have some of the free premium currency from completing missions, the cost of using it always leaves you in the negative, especially when the cost of using premium currency increases each time you use it. If you aren’t interested in putting in tons of money, especially after they make money from ads, don’t bother downloading. In addition, the game often lags, freezes, or completely kicks you after about 3-5 minutes of playing. Another issue that was not fixed after the recent update. Would be a fun game if they adjusted balancing and performance issues.

Game has flaws

I absolutely love this game. However I will be contacting apple for my money back A.S.A.P. So I have spent money (real money) on this game via in app purchases. And I am upset because I noticed through certain task and missions that I wasn’t getting all of my keys. So I made sure that I counted how many keys I am supposed to get for certain task and how many keys I already had before I wrote to the operators through the game. It’s felt as if they were harassing me on purpose… and it took a lot (including them proving my point) that they did owe me keys. I stated that I would contact apple if I didn’t hear back from them in 48 hours but waited longer anyways. So I have proof that the game has flaws and bugs. I was able to automate a building with a capo who’s level was lower that what was required and took a screenshot (glad I did) because I just finished my bounty quest and guess what?? No keys!! Not a single key from all the quest I just did. I absolutely love playing the game… but since I am being cheated… I want my money back from this game… I don’t even care about them giving me the keys they owe me since I feel like it is going to be an ongoing issue (and feeling harassed like being mocked) and I refuse to pay or let them keep my money after I feel cheated in other areas.

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