Highrise: Avatar, Chat & Play

I’ve played highrise for years now so I know a bit about how it works. There’s a lot of reviews that say you need to spend money in order to get “good” items. That’s not true. I had good items and friends before I started to spend a little money on the game. You can join crews and get items to sell that way. There’s plenty of non-eventing or crews intended to help out new users. There are some people who aren’t nice on the game, but if you stay away from people like them, then you won’t have a problem. There’s so many fun things to do in highrise. You can buy and sell cute items and clothes. There is also weekly eventing for you to participate in to earn ranks and rewards. Joining a crew is also a really good way to make friends. A crew is a group of people that participate in events together and get to know each other in the crew chat. Some crews have requirements for the events (this just means how many tickets you need to get in an event) but there’s so many non-eventing crews to join when you are first starting out. When you first start out, don’t ask people for donations or free items. There’s so many ways to earn items to sell that you don’t need to ask people for free stuff. There’s giveaways you can join and possibly even win. If you want to get on someone’s bad side, ask for free items. That will surely do it.

Where do I begin. You download this game thinking it will be just some silly phone game, no no no. It can become more of your life than your actual life. The game is set up to where you have to socialize to some degree to do much of anything, buy stuff, be in a crew, chat in rooms. Definitely promotes social activity. That leads you to meet people, thousands of people. People have found their best friends on this app, they date on this app it’s a mini world. There’s also a lot of bad with the good. People online can be a lot more mean and negative, it brings out the worst in some. There’s lots of bullying, offensive and highly inappropriate things that go on. Also the way the game is set up as far as eventing goes, you really HAVE to spend money to be in a top eventing crew and get nice rewards. The algorithm for grabs is horrible. The reason I would end up quitting this game is just how much money it really takes. That definitely needs to be worked on. Watch out because it can become highly addictive. They need more staff, more competent staff that acts like an actual profession business. In most cases they do nothing to solve majority of the issues that people have. My advice for this game is to set a limit for how much you would ever allow yourself to spend. Maybe 10-20 a month. Anything over that for a phone game... you need to step back and consider deleting lol.

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This game is really fun. But, the people are very inappropriate. So many people said bad words in the game, but it was not tagged. It should be tagged. This game should be for 16+. There are people that would friend me and ask for nudes. Also people share a lot of private information on this game, such as their age. I like the concept of meeting new people, decorating your room, and dressing up your character, but people who are being inappropriate do not get banned, and that is a problem. Some kids that may download this game will be easy to target. All those 20 year old people can easily ask children where they live, their age, their name, everything. That is a big issue. This is not a safe game for kids. At least have a restriction so kids under the age of at least 13 can not download the game. They could get in a lot of trouble by chatting with strangers. Please fix these problems. Also one more thing. I played this game for a few days, and I don’t know how to get gold. So I might play it again if you could get gold from doing stuff or daily log in rewards, or something. Cause I saw so much stuff that I wanted, but couldn’t get it because I didn’t have any gold, and I didn’t even know how to get it. So please respond and tell me how you can get gold for free, and not have to buy it in the shop. Thank you if you read this.

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I had the game for a few years and spent way too much money on it as any teen would for a game. My account was recently hacked, no one had my password and my email was linked Incase I couldn’t remember. However, in the process of the event the hacker took off my email without me even being notified. Items that cost me hundreds of shameful dollars were stolen. The FAQ and support refused to replace the items to me. I could get into about how ridiculous the game has become over time, and the amount of cyber bullying that goes on, but at the moment I’m just here to express that many accounts get hacked and the support system is very poor and will not help, in fact after four years of me spending so much and keeping my account secure, they blamed me for getting scammed. Even if they track down a user, and block them, it’s as simple as resetting their device and creating a new account. So nothing really gets done when someone has done something terrible. The game scams users out of their money, it is a pay to play type of game and if you’re not extremely careful and someone hacks your account you will not be getting your items back. I advise staying away from this toxic game the people in it as well. It’s easy to get addicted to if you’re more of a social media type of person, but I’m literally begging everyone to stay off because it will hold you back and scam you out of a lot more than you expect. This doesn’t even get a star for me.. it’s just required.

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I have played this game for awhile so I have a pretty good idea of how it works. You really can’t get anywhere without buying something. The app pushes you to buy new clothes, membership, etc; Which would normally be okay expect they’re asking for way too much money. The creators are definitely way up on their high horse. And then when you complain they tell you “you can definitely play the game without buying anything just like in real life” No. First of all when everyone else is buying overpriced items in the game and you don’t you start to feel left out. You’re not as “cool” as the others and sometimes you can be down right bullied for it. You’re pressured into spending money to fit in with the higher members. I have tested this firsthand. I went through the game without buying anything at first, it was hard to make friends, no one talked to me and no one complimented me on the very basic outfits you’re giving with in the beginning. Then I made a new account on my tablet and bought a few things. I made more friends because they people were attracted to the fact that I had things normal players couldn’t get. I was invited to more rooms. It’s all a sales tactic these people are playing with you. I’ve worked in sales and I know all the games. The creators of this app are money hungry. Don’t waste your time unless your willing to drop some serious cash.