Hidden Objects Mystery Society

I've been playing this game for months now. I have continued to level up, spent my fair share of money on gems and euros, despite the freezing frames and disappearing purchases. Some of the issues seem to have been fixed. But new ones are creeping in. I just reached level 60 and claimed my reward, left the game, and came back to find myself at level 57!! I also find my gems disappearing faster than I have used them. You programmers and developers should be able to develop a glitch free game if you expect people to continue to play. Then today, I just downloaded the newest update to the game, and Lo and behold, when I try to open th game, I hear the music, see the screen where you can watch the game loading, and then ...nothing!! The opening screen is frozen there, and I can’t get into the game at all. This is the worst update ever.

If you run out of time on a search they say you can watch a video to get a bit more time. But every time that’s happened, when the video ends the search scene screen is wonky and frozen and I fail anyway. At this point I never watch the videos because of this, so their advertising model is broken there. Everything else seems to work as intended, but the economy is intentionally broken in favor of the House. No surprise, it’s a commercial venture, but it does feel like they’re always trying to nickel and dime you. Most frustrating is having to buy an entry visa (not cheap) and then only having a few tickets to that location. You can buy tickets at a gem each, but that’s steep.

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A really fun game until you encounter all of the pop up ads along with the many micro transactions that are required to advance in the game. The game requires you to reach certain levels before certain countries become available. You then have to purchase visas via in-game currency to access to the country, but you can’t access that country anytime you want. You have to have tickets to access them, with which the game is extremely stingy. So, if you want to play those countries regularly, you have to buy the tickets individually. The only tickets I get regularly are for a country I have yet to buy a visa for, but I rarely get tickets for the four countries for which I have purchased visas. As usual, it’s another good game ruined by the developer’s greed. The push for micro transactions would make more sense if they weren’t also pushing ads all the time. Pick a monetization scheme and stick with it.

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This game would have 5 stars if the developers were active. I sent an email over a month ago regarding the app not working when attempting to connect with Facebook. Also the ads are extremely annoying. When I have everything on silent, including app settings, iPad on silent as well as do not disturb on all due to a sleeping baby, when the ad videos come on THEY HAVE LOUD SOUND! Ridiculous and shouldn't happen. Also on all Final Fantasy ads you are unable to click the X to exit after watching the ad and must quit the app completely and reopen. This is all ridiculous and isn't a difficult fix. DEVELOPERS, pay attention to the reviews! I guarantee you I'll never pay on the in-app purchases if your app doesn't run perfectly and smoothly. Once you have all bugs fixed I'd consider in-app purchases.

In the year or so that I have played this game, I’ve experienced at least 4 episodes in which the game freezes and won’t load. It seems to mysteriously occur during the last few days when specific holiday themed mysteries are about to expire. I’ve wondered if this is a way to get people to purchase tickets for entry and then get stuck with them as the game was not accessible during the last few days to reach all three goals. While I do love this game, the developers need to step up and create a more stable environment. Half of the unsolicited ads for more time simply crash my computer. Too many people will say to hell with the aggravation and simply walk away.