MONOPOLY GO‪!‬ 9+

Title explains it all.

I have no idea why this is thought to be a good idea at all. They have monopoly as a stand alone game already. And that is fine how it is . Or you could play a physical board sure . The issue here is this free version. The only positive I can say is that I personally didn’t see any ads while playing . This game works sort of like moba games in the sense that you get energy used for playing/rolling dice .

I started out with 50/30 energy on the first board which is NYC, also why did they start out with the best city as the first area ?? Kinda crazy . Usually it’s best for last. The other improvement they could have done is only have 1 board at all. The idea that you finish a board and then move on to another one (another level) leaving all progress behind is kinda lame . Imagine your playing monopoly with friends in real life , you start winning and then everyone starts over but says that you are on level two since you were doing so well last game .

Also I didn’t get to experience the part where you like buy houses and hotels on spaces . When you land on any space on the board you quickly get a few bucks or lose a few I guess . But there’s no option to buy a property like in monopoly . You go all the way around the board and get 200 every time . You get money from the chance spots . And you get money from like , overall upgrading . On the beginning of the first level they give you like 5 main things to upgrade . Which improve your overall gameplay. Like I would start out upgrading the most expensive monument thing , then the bridge , then the tower , doing the cheapest monument option last .

Once you max out all the monuments you move on to the next board . Basically restarting ur progress . So if you were “silly” enough to spend real money for the monopoly cash to improve on your board then it is essentially wiped clean on every level completed . The next two issues I have are personal for me but still, this is a main part of the overall game .

So everytime you roll the dice your gonna land on spaces and sometimes you are able to attack other peoples boards . I’ve never played clash of clans due to the high expenses related to that free game but it’s the same idea . I think . I attacked about 3 players boards while playing . Each time I did so it showed me the players pictures . I signed up for this game through apple not Facebook so it would use my face for my board , but I assume most people will sign up with Facebook for this so when attacking others players boards I would always see there smiling face selfie profile picture when doing so . Your profile pic on Facebook is essentially your player in game . That’s a thing .

Right before I stopped playing I landed on the space where a jackpot pile is created . The same thing you do in the real life game . Or at least what we did as kids . We would like keep a pile of money on the middle of the board until someone won it . After it took my money it said “add 4 more friends to start the mini game”. Why do I need to add 4 more friends ? This part should have been done on the game designers end . Imagine your playing call of duty and instead of it preparing a lobby for you it tells you to find friends and have them come to your house and to do a lan party . Just makes no sense : because if you don’t find friends your still playing the rest of the game with random strangers anyways . Huge fail .

When looking on the in app purchases before I originally downloaded the game I saw it said there was a 50 or 60$ offer available. And I’m sure you could get this many times to speed up progress . So potentially you could spend hundreds of not thousands of dollars on this free game .

The last thing I’ll say about this is just that thank god there is an option to buy the single player game , and there has always been that. I’ve had this game on computer for years . It’s fun to play a regular game against computers , or the option to play with others at home, or online . But this free version is just way too expensive overall. You could potentially play this game forever the way they set it up. Like candy crush or like any free game . There’s no end , no winning , or losing . Just your own real life time and money at stake .

I still say just spend like the $6 or whatever it costs for the standalone single player version. Or buy a Physical board . This will always be a good game . But the free version is gonna be mainly for rich kids or whales . And this is gonna make so much money for the devs compared to the other games . I personally don’t think this is even worth a try. I knew it was gonna be bad going on but considering how many ads I saw on tik tok about this I thought just maybe it will be good .

If they would have made it just be 1 board , and put u with some AI , not have the Facebook selfie faces for enemy’s , not wiped progress everytime you complete all monuments and not given the option to buy out individual spaces , or hotels , or houses , then maybe . But this is bad . Skip folks . Unless you have a few grand to waste .

All these reviews must be bots because this isn’t a game. There’s constantly pop ups asking to spend spend spend for more rolls. You’re not actually playing the game. What a waste