Football Strike

This was a great game that I played many times a day. I have also spent a decent amount of money for upgrades. As of recent the game has been very glitchy and freezes up or resets itself indicating connecting to server. As a result I have lost I estimate easily well over 100,000 coins. I really loved the game but can’t take the increasing crash issues. I have no issues with other more demanding games nor do I have any WiFi issues. I have run a test monitoring my WiFi speeds when it has crashed and I showed no loss or dip in data. This is the only app I am having any issues with. Seems during high usage time on the games servers is the issue. Trying to get support from the company is useless just like trying to get reimbursed for the lost coins. They make nearly impossible. I think I may contact Apple for reimbursement for my money spent.

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....or dont bother asking for repeat customers. All I see are updates that feature new games, new articles of clothing. But if you took the time to read reviews you would see that almost 100% of the problems experienced are for the connection drop issues especially at the higher levels. Call it cheaters hacking or glitches, whatever, this issue has been around since day one and is totally ignored. That tells me your priority is sucking more money out of unsuspecting fools like myself rather than providing a quality game. You guys are either the worst marketing strategists or the crappiest app designers out there. You would have easily double the fan base if you would simply address the issue everyone complains about. Instead we get a new badge for our garments while you ignore the folks who have been paying money in favor of attracting new membership with shiny objects. Once they figure your scam out, they will leave but who cares, right? You’ve already fleeced what your marketing strategist reports to be people who will no longer cough up money just to lose it on a fake connectivity issue. At least make it look like you are interested in stopping the cheating and crappy programming flaws instead of leveraging the biggest complaint for more real money. Hahaha, jokes on us, eh? One of these days apple will clamp down on the licensed stealing folks like you are getting away with now. Meanwhile, steal away, right?

I like this game a lot, but like most other games that are actually fun to play, the price for upgrades and new items are ridiculous and outrageous! It’s hard to explain but if you have played the game yourself, then you know what I’m talking about. You don’t get to pick outfits or cleats, etc.. you earn them in bags awarded or if you somehow have enough coins, or cash, you can buy higher value bags. Either way it’s no telling what you get. To boost up your players or the soccer balls you use, gets more expensive each time you have upgraded the player or soccer balls. The game itself is pretty cool and fun! But it becomes boring and annoying after a while because of the value of your real money, time, and effort to upgrade when in reality you don’t get full control on what you want to upgrade. The game play is cool. It’s hard to block some shots because of the view point of the goalie to the other player kicking. There really is no skill level needed to play this game, just get lucky haha it’s 50/50 really. You win some and you lose some. You’re playing against real ppl so it depends on you to succeed. Playing against a computer is easy, eventually you gain strategy but not against real players!

So this game gives you the illusion that you are playing other people live but you are not. The app takes our info and profiles and uses it to generate “live” games, except they are not live, you are not playing against other players you are playing against the computer using other players profile images. Certain things give it away such as when the app uses algorithms to decide when you should play against against a difficult “opponent”. When this happens your goalie will not work properly and will fall down and do something you didn’t “tell” it to do when swiping, and sometimes if you manage to get your goalie in the right position to block the ball the ball appears to go through your goalie. They also do other tricks such as use dialogue boxes to make it appear your opponent is interacting with you. There are many other little tricks they use to make you feel like you are competing against other people, but having said all that, outside of the games the app decides its time for you to lose, it is still a fun game to play.

I want to start by saying that this game is really fun. However, there are many flaws that cannot be ignored. I play the free kick mode constantly, and am always losing coins. This is incredibly frustrating as you need coins to get better! Also, you can’t do anything other than the practice mode if you don’t have coins. This problem is an easy fix- add a mode that costs nothing and gives 50 coins to the winner. To make it so people don’t take advantage, you could only allow players to use this mode when they can’t afford to do anything else. This is a much better alternative to waiting for 2 hours for 280 coins. I also think it should be made easier to earn the dollar things. They give so much of an advantage, but only players who pay a lot can afford them. It should not be this hard to get a good soccer ball. I also believe upgrades to stats should cost less. Coins are hard to get a lot of, and upgrades are incredibly important, which makes the game nearly impossible for new players.