Baseball Boy!

So Ive been playing this game for a bit now and I must admit it is a blast to play. Super easy and intuitive to learn and use, pick it up and put it down with ease. Perfect for someone like me who does not want to have to invest chunks of time playing if I don’t want to or can’t at the moment. So far, I do love the game. Ive not played long, but what I have has been a blast. What I don’t love is that between rounds, you win and claim coins to be used for upgraded items. They offer you 2 choices, take the coins or double your reward for watching a video. Cool, I’m down with that. The rub is that I don’t always want to double my reward, so I click just take coins. The issue I’m finding is that 90% of the time I’m being force fed an ad anyway without any reward. If I wanted to watch an ad, I would have chosen double my reward. I didn’t, so don’t force me to watch one. And I am choosing double my reward most of the time as it helps me build up quickly, so I’m not trying to avoid the ads. I just don’t want an ad between almost EVERY round as most ads are AS LONG as a round. That’s too high of a price to play this game. It shouldn’t be almost a 50/50 split between game and ads, thats way way too much. I don’t normally review games, but I do like this game and hope something can be done about all the ads so I can really fully enjoy this game.

The game itself is okay, there are a few things that could be fixed (will mention later) but what kills me with the game is that there’s an ad between EVERY play, sometimes 2 and sometimes right when you open the app. There is an option to collect your reward or double your reward and watch an ad, well you’re getting an ad either way. If you choose to double you just can’t skip it after 10 seconds and still get the reward. You may be thinking “well just turn off cellular data” but don’t bother. The app “glitches” and won’t even open if you try that. Interesting glitch there guys. Anyways, about the fixes. It’s great when you get a “perfect” swing/hit except that all the shhtuff is in the middle so all of my perfect swings result in hitting a light post or a crack in the sidewalk and my ball goes backwards 😑 ONE time my ball hit a car with a perfect swing and it blew it up which was awesome but it seems that was the only time/doesn’t work with any other object?? Also I NEVER hit any springs, I’d rather hit springs than diamonds 🤷🏼‍♀️ Finally, it took me a while to figure out you can tap for a “bounce” and keep your ball going a little further. This is great but as I’ve progressed the feature seems to be getting worse/less accurate to my taps. Overall, significantly reduce ads for the regular collect option and increase distance potential for “perfect” swings and I’ll be happy 👍🏼

The progression is fantastic. You can upgrade strength, speed, and bounce. Every time you upgrade them your stats improve by 10% and the cost of the next upgrade goes up by 20%. Every 1000 meters gives you a 5% strength boost and a 5% currency boost. Also every 1000 meters up to about 50k meters you will unlock a cosmetic bat upgrade. While you hit your ball around the map you will collect gems on the ground that are used to purchase cosmetic player upgrades. DEVS: (in recent update: thank you so much for increasing the game speed. Unfortunately I think there is a bug in the game. I think it has to do with terrain generation. (Context: I have the iPhone 8 Plus, I closed out all apps on my phone including Baseball Boy, then I reopened baseball boy) I now hit the ball to about 90k meters before it hits the ground. Unfortunately the ground doesn’t load in time and then I’m instantly teleported back to the beginning to hit the ball again. If I purposely botch the hit so as to land around 70k-80k meters the ground catches up and I CAN play. I don’t know if this is by design, but because of this I can not pass 104k meters in the game. I have a video of everything I just explained if needed)

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Ive noticed a new era of games, which require you to mindlessly tap away at your screen to “progress” through the game. Progression, however, is not an attribute the developer of this game had in mind. A matter of fact progression in a type of game such as this, is pointless. It all comes down to timing. If you can tap your screen at the right moment the game gives you the illusion that you overcome an challenge. In truth, the player has not progressed in anything. You hit the ball an infinite amount of times to acquire an infinite amount of money, to infinitely increase your stats. There is no end goal. There is no climax. Its repetitive, and games like this are made to pass time, mindlessly. Its less of a game, and acts more like a stress ball. You only play it when you’re notifications aren’t blowing up. In that case, this game is simply an “ad farm.” And developers of these types of games are “ad farmers.” All the revenue that this game makes is made by ads for other games. This is a counter-productive method in my opinion. What rational idea provokes the use of generating money from a game by promoting its competitors. Lets be honest, mobile game makers are in constant competition with one another and this game is a clear testament to that. A pointless, mindless, and insignificant game that would not deserve anyones time, unless they enjoy viewing adds, and enjoy a game that requires no skill.

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I’ve seen this ad everywhere and honestly was getting fed up. I mean if they put this much effort into advertising then it has to be good right? Wrong. I downloaded this without much thought since the first few reviews were five or four starts so I thought hey, what could go wrong. Well my life isn’t ruined or anything but time is certainly wasted. First off, the game *lags terribly* and I mean REALLY really bad. I’m on iOS 12 with around 100 gb of storage since I just got this phone wiped a while ago (backed up of course but I decided to start off on a clean slate, which is why I’m downloading games since my phone is pretty much empty). And so I tried turning the WiFi off, it crashed every single time. Even with restart. So I turned on the WiFi again and it worked. No doubt a money thirsty app but then again most apps these days are like this. And so I was hit with the urge to uninstall but I decided to give it a few more tries. Took me a few crashes (even with WiFi on) but I got to level five. I couldn’t take the crashes anymore so I’m about to uninstall the game. It’s a really good concept but really poorly executed at the same time. Hope the devs can fix it somehow but I guess they won’t bother since they’re pulling in insane downloads just with advertising.