Pocket Politics: Idle Money

First and foremost, this game will absolutely make your phone crazy hot to the point it’ll worry you. The game itself is fine, but it doesn’t do anything new. You’ve probably seen it done better elsewhere. Another big issue is the fact the “free gold” tasks you have to do in other apps DO NOT pay out like they’re supposed to. It wouldn’t be so bad if the higher paying tasks weren’t very, VERY time consuming. I’ve done three separate tasks that should have paid out over 4,000+ gold. I got nothing for my efforts. Zilch. And I’m incredibly annoyed.

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It’s sucking the fun out of the game big time. I constantly get “ads aren’t available” messages constantly. For a game that requires ad watching in order to make any significant progress, this is killing the game. I’ve been playing this and other Kongregate games for years now and it is getting unbearable. Please either fix the problem or patch the game so that you automatically get the reward if you click the button and the game says ads aren’t available. It’s just bad form to punish us for your mistakes. I’m going to take a break from your games until I read patch notes saying the ad problems have been fixed. Please don’t just put a generic statement like “bug fix” in your patch notes or I won’t know that the ads were fixed and won’t start replaying. Meanwhile I’m going to try out some other developers games to see if maybe their ad system doesn’t punish my gameplay like yours does. I hope you guys can resolve this. If I haven’t really connected with another game already, I’d love to come back. It been fun (except the past few months) and I hope the best for the developers to turn things around.

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Game doesn’t pay the gold when watching ads and if you complain they give you the runaround and THEN reset your whole acct! Don’t put too much effort in to this game, because one day after putting in a lot of work on an event you will find that they have restarted you back to the very beginning losing all of your progress! I have NEVER been so disappointed in a game as I am this one! Don’t waste your time. (Response update) I DID contact support. I know I am owed at LEAST 1000 gold for missing ads and all I have gotten is the run around. Even after I send screenshots. It got to a point where they told me to sent all of my history for 1 ONE report for ONE missing gold request. No support, nothing. And now if you are an IOS user you can’t even use the extra gold ads anymore. The support you all give is as if y’all are kicked back with your feet on a desk trying to see how many email exchanges can go back and forth before the user just gives up- and then you are laughing about it while eating a bag of chips prolly passing around a homemade cigarette! You guys are ridiculous!

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Decent game, idle fun and all that. I would give it more stars if there weren’t IAP buttons on the screen where you tap. This is a very obvious way of making people accidentally click something that brings you to an IAP screen every time, and it’s placed in such a way that you need to be careful or you’ll tap it while simply playing the game. Keep the purchases in the dedicated store screens or far off the main game screen, if someone wants to buy something they will make a conscious decision to do so. Don’t try to potentially trick people into IAP’s, you’d think Kongregate would be above that kind of thing at this point. (Update:) seriously? The addition of two more menu buttons on the screen you’re supposed to tap makes it virtually unplayable, want people to be more interested in downloading (and potentially pay for) your apps? Stop intentionally trying to interfere with gameplay and listen to your fans for once.

This isn’t a bad idle game if you don’t mind the political jokes and such. My two big issues though are the amount of space it requires and battery usage. Currently it’s taking almost 2 gigs of space just for an idle game and that’s a bit ridiculous. No other idle games I have require NEARLY that much space. Also, this game loves sucking up battery. If you guys can find a way to reduce space required and battery usage, I’d most likely rate this 4 or 5 stars, but until then, it’s staying a 3. It’s fun but only if you have the space and power to play it.