Space Takeover - Defense.io

The game is fun, and it’s engaging, until about level 180. Up until this point, the isn’t too difficult, though I had to use plenty of freezes and shields along the way. However, once I hit level 180, I’m hard blocked from progressing. To get through this level, you would have to have an extremely powerful fleet, or you would a ton of special skills, both of which would require either a ton of [real] money, or a ton of [real] money and watching a ton of ads. Additionally, the challenges get to the point where you can beat the early levels just fine, but then quickly become the same exact scenario of being impossible without power-ups and/or a strong fleet. Then you have PVP. In the beginning, PVP isn’t too bad; I was able to win almost every match, but then it got to the point where I hardly ever win a match, wasting what few attempts you get (without watching ads, of course). And, to top it off, paying to remove ads only removes the forced ads; if you want extra power-ups or extra PVP attempts, you still have to watch “optional” ads. I say “optional,” because even though they are considered optional, they are entirely necessary to get through levels, which I’m certain these devs understand. It seems they want the best of both worlds; people pay to remove the forced ads, but the game is intentionally designed to be impossible to progress without watching “optional” ads. This to me is very scummy. Preemptive response to developer’s responses of “we value your feedback,” or whatever other canned response they like to give: I don’t believe you. You CHOSE how to develop your game, and it was a conscious decision to design your game to be impossible without ads, even AFTER paying to turn them off, or without spending money, thereby making your game Pay-to-win. Do better!

I very much enjoyed this game until I came across what could only be bugs or hacking that have frustrated me to no end. During the PvP there have been opponents that have spaceship lvls of 999 and the screen freezes wasting one of the very few chances you get for PvP. There have also been instances where the opponents spaceships were of lesser quality and lvl than mine and still seem to be able to overpower my ships. I don’t recommend playing this game with so many inconsistencies and bugs. Especially since I’ve reported the first problem and there seems to be nothing the developers are doing to stop it.