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I already wrote out a long review but I’m not seeing it posted. I got to it from within the game which probably only hands it off to Apple if you rate them with 5 stars. Don’t purchase this game. It is a waste of money. Your $4.99 used to be worth it and gave you many maps. Now they require you to pay for all but 3 maps. At least for now. What’s next? Pay for every single map? Pay for every single Hero? Pay 10 cents per turn? Based on the game makers behavior, I would not be surprised by any of those. They are greedy and do not deserve our support. I understand that they need to make money which is why I was willing to pay for the game in the first place and pay for some of the extra maps. But this recent change is ridiculous. They are stealing from us. Last month, our game purchase got us gameplay on 14 maps. Now our purchase only gets us gameplay on 3 maps. Where is our refund for what they deducted from our gameplay? It’s like buying a car, driving it around for a month. Then the dealership coming and taking the tires and requiring you to pay extra for them because they decided the tires were not included in the original purchase.

Many know this game from the early days of computer gaming. The port doesn’t work the same as the original but it’s fairly close (most annoyingly, automated troop movements aren’t optimized to avoid conflicts). I purchased the app a few years ago and it came with the classic maps from the original game. Since then the developer has chosen to lock all but three maps, which now have to be purchased separately. I could understand charging for newly developed maps, thereby extending gameplay, but hobbling the game and forcing devoted fans to now pay for something offered free with the purchase of the game just a few years ago seems greedy.

I give one star in reference to the multiplayer functionality only. For the rest of the game, it's 5 stars. With the removal of the Game Center app from iOS 10, creating, inviting and joining a multiplayer game among friends is an impossibly complex and utterly frustrating task. It's fairly straightforward to create and send out invites to your existing contacts. The issue is if you're the invitee and trying to join. You receive a text message with an invite. Tap the invite, the game opens to the multiplayer screen, ... and from then on your on your own. There's no intuitive path forward - a complete failure in the UX department. A clever person might tap the Load Multiplayer button. This does bring up what might be your game, but then joining it causes an error or dumps you into a different game with strangers. Very frustrating, but worse? Utterly no support from the developers. There is no specific documentation nor even a website. There's a Facebook page, but it's dormant with no luck getting a response there.