Coin Drop!

I was over the moon excited when I saw that Coin Drop was back. I loved this game back in the day and not having it available for quite a while was a sad situation. The good: There was obviously some work put into modernizing the app. The game levels take up the entire screen of modern phones. The tutorials show really old iPhones with home buttons that had much smaller screens. The bad: The monetization, notifications, and nagging are just awful. 100% of the time when I launch the game I get a popup asking for notification permission even though I keep refusing. When you finish a level without meeting the requirements to progress you're nagged to watch an ad for more lives. When you are between levels you are nagged to pay to unlock all the decorative coins. And I was foolish enough to think that paying to remove the ads meant that I had fully unlocked the game. Image my surprise at failing a level a few times and getting a popup that I couldn't play any more unless I bought more lives or waited ten minutes. Absolutely appalling and I regret spending any money on this app.

Listen, this game is absolutely incredible. The coins are adorable, the music, the difficulty of the levels, everything. HOWEVER the game had been taken off the App Store for a while, and now that’s back no hesitation buying no adds. No problem, it’s reasonably priced. Cut to playing a few levels, and BAM! Paywall as you only have so many lives. Even if you buy ad free, $3 for 5 lives. Each Level takes a few lives. What used to be a wonderful, whole, incredibly fun game is now modified to be riddled with paywalls and ads if you don’t or can’t pay $3. If this game wants money why not upload to the App Store? Why not just sell the game at $10? This paywall model is not fun & I doubt anyone will really play because of how wildly aggressive it is