Grand Gangster War

Nice games

I normally enjoy spending money on the types of games, but not this one. It constantly crashes, so much I couldn’t begin to put a number on it.

GGW is a perfect example of dangerous mobile games with predatory tactics that take advantage of players’ mental vulnerabilities. It uses easy-to-use, over-simplified mechanics, incentivizes spending with no real thought of consequences to the well being of players and health of the game. It’s unfortunate that developers and games like this continue to be allowed to exist when it is clear that they are profit-driven and exploiting people’s vulnerabilities. At the same time there are no repercussions to this cycle of abuse, as the developers can always disband and rebrand to create something similar. Developers get away with this because they are not held liable or responsible for player spending habits even with clear evidence that they use predatory, deceptive, and exploitative tactics to manipulate players. Apple also continues to allow these games into the market while profiteering and further exploiting consumers and disrespecting gamers. While the developers MAY not have direct affiliation, Apple continues to receive their share of the profit from apps that are short-lived. It also adds more evidence of consumer exploitation on-top of Apple’s continued use of device software updates that make their older devices stop functioning even when the hardware is well taken care of, which they were also sued, and lost the case for evidence of this. TLDR; this game exploits player vulnerabilities for a profit by providing lack-luster content that incentivizes unhealthy and dangerous spending habits. I recommend avoiding this game if you are prone to spending on micro-transactions, as the game uses many predatory tactics to exploit the player vulnerabilities and not being held accountable for their actions.