Star Wars Card Trader Reviews

I wrote a review for StarWarsCardTrader a long time ago and this is how it went. I have been playing this game for almost a year now, and am still addicted. New cards are constantly being added so it never gets old. The community is great, active, and helpful. The game is incredible with the diversity between cards that I have collected 3,500 of. And that's only 6% of the cards I the game. THIS IS NO LONGER HOW I FEEL.

Before the updates there were no card packs that required paid in game crystals. I believe this was a horrible addition to the game and ruined it for me. It makes those with money to spend get the cards much quicker before they’re sold out. The new UI in the game is often buggy and unintuitive I greatly prefer the old more simple layout. The community is still great, all great people, but it has diminished greatly. The in game can feed used to always been roaring with comments. It’s no where near where it used to be now. Trading is not the same nor are old features like the smugglers den.

This game used to be great, now it is a pay to win game where the developers do not respond to criticism by the community on their socials, and utterly have been working in the wrong direction for years now.

StarWarsCardTrader is great when it works, but if you have any kind of problem then you are out of luck. Customer support used to be a strength of StarWarsCardTrader. If you had a problem or glitch, you’d submit a ticket and an actual person would respond to your issue via email and resolve your issue. It was reasonably quick and effective. They recently switched to a chat-based support system which is less than useless. They first cycle you through automated prompts with suggestions. When those don’t work, they send your issue to “someone” but it’s not live chat. I just waited over 24 hours for a reply and the person’s suggestion was EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE AUTOMATED SUGGESTION, which I had already told them didn’t work. I have asked for more help, but I am not optimistic that I will get any useful reply any time soon. In the meantime, the award for the set I am having an issue with drops in 3 days… I would not recommend spending any money on this poorly supported, buggy app. Just play for free and pray you don’t have any problems.

I have been playing since 2015 and enjoyed the game but always felt it was pricey. But now StarWarsCardTrader has had a bug for months where it always locks up and reboots. Now when trying to make an in game purchase, it locks up more than it doesn’t. The purchase goes through, but because the game is locked and reboots, you never receive the items of the transaction. I notified Topps about this problem and they have taken no steps to fix it. I recently found out that I was charged for these transactions I never received. Topps has taken no action to fix this but is still receiving the money without delivering on their end. They must know this is going on but do not care! This means they are stealing from customers and have no intention of fixing it. It has been months! Do not play this game and certainly do not make purchases!

The recent update to StarWarsCardTrader is just utter garbage and I dread having to log in now and see the horribly designed user interface. A well balanced Home Screen has made way for a self promoting ad push to buy digital card packs using in app purchased crystals. The Home Screen is now clunky and unfriendly. The Home Screen used to be well laid out and extremely clear, instead of the eye sore that it has become. Instead of putting man hours into fixing the error in the missions area that has been there for months without a fix, through MULTIPLE updates, the developers aloud this useless and pitiful update to be published instead. What used to be a fun and well polished user interface has now become…well, garbage and the design team should be ashamed of the product they have put out.

Get your act back together.

Well I guess topps wants to drive away business with this new OBNOXIOUS home page! Literally everything useful on the previous version home page has been shrunk so small you need a magnifying glass to see it!!! It's UNUSABLE!! It's HIDEOUS!!! It is total GARBAGE!!! It stinks worse than a Dianoga that has been dead a year floating around a trash compactor that won't empty!!!! WHY WHY WHY!!??? I hated this home page so much on bunt I can hardly use that app anymore! And forget spending money on something that looks like TRASH!!! I am NOT AT ALL tempted to buy things from the home page now! Like it makes me so angry to look at it I just want to close StarWarsCardTrader and never open it again! And I am someone who actually spends real money on Topps digital cards! Your new IN YOUR FACE home store is so insulting and Obnoxious I don't know if I can bring myself to ever spend money on here again! It is distastefully obscene to push SO HARD for sales that you practically assault people with your store!!! Bunch of half witted, scruffy looking, NERF HERDERS!!!!!!!!!!

Updating for 2022 as this still remains true: YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WILL BE SOLD. It’s been a long time since I left StarWarsCardTrader in the dust - after years of obtaining credits, the developers decided to make them useless to increase revenue. That by itself could be forgiven, but what can’t is the fact that any email address you enter into StarWarsCardTrader will eventually be leaked to spam lists. After I began thinking that StarWarsCardTrader was responsible for the 20+ daily spam emails that began popping up, I created an email address and only used it for StarWarsCardTrader. A year later, that address is now being spammed daily. Whether it’s data breaches or the company selling your information - I’m not sure - but it will 100% happen to you if you use StarWarsCardTrader. The constant emails I get for “cheap pills” and home owner insurance is enough to make me want to keep updating this review each time StarWarsCardTrader updates and clears them for the new version. Good luck. (20 spam emails per day on an address only ever given to StarWarsCardTrader)

Not a fan. Ever since the new update a year or so ago, the odds of winning previously in-won content has decreased, and I’m tired of “winning” the same cards that i have at least 45 copies of. At least recently, with the free giveaways, you have a chance of winning a newer card that may not be in your collection. So, that’s good. BUT it should be the same for the “free packs” you win by meeting the challenges (ie: opening 10 packs, etc). Also, you need to work on your odds system. If it says there is a 1 in 5 chance, it shouldn’t be 15 packs later when I am finally winning a “basic” card. And this happens A LOT. It makes me not want to play on StarWarsCardTrader. Also, there is no clear info on what, exactly, the “lock” system is. Why do i need to lock cards? Do my rare cards I’ve collected for years now have a chance of disappearing? Why is there no better info on this?? Idk. When StarWarsCardTrader first started out, you won more money as a daily prize. Which was good. And you had different “free” cards you could win. Now, you don’t win a lot of money, and the free cards are the same old-same old. It just gets realllllly boring.

Have only had StarWarsCardTrader about a week and had issues from the start. First I lost over 100,000 coins overnight. They were there when I closed StarWarsCardTrader and gone when I opened it again a few hours later.

Now, StarWarsCardTrader has crashed or something. Can’t access it and get a repeated message to update to continue using, but there is no update and I have the latest version. It was working a few hours ago, now stuck in this stupid update loop that can’t be fixed because there is no newer version for me to update.

The collection progress stuff doesn’t work either on many sets. On some it shows I have zero cards of the set, though I have many or have finished it.

Many of my cards have images that don’t show up at all. Just a card count number with no way to tell what is on the card. First it was just one or two, but more popping up that way every day now.

It’s a confusing layout and not intuitive when trying to figure out certain things (like trading) and too often requires what should be unnecessary extra steps in things like trading and melding.

Might be fun if it worked correctly or if I can ever access it again. For now, not good.

May correct if actions for corrections are made.
I really enjoy StarWarsCardTrader it’s something my husband and I do together. But one of the things I don’t like is how you don’t have better prizes like emeralds and more coins as there are many of us who can’t afford or maybe just not be able to justify these purchases required to get emeralds and more coins.
I prefer how Topps Marcel does their tier prizes and what not so much more.
I also can’t get the noise after every pack you open to stop even though I have my sounds and music for StarWarsCardTrader off. The only way not to hear it is to have my phone in silent while playing the game or turn sound volume off completely, but isn’t that the purpose of those options in the settings of StarWarsCardTrader? Why is there still a ship sound after opening each pack even if games sounds and music are disabled???

You cant really call this a game cause theres no gameplay which is fine if they made the actual card trading part engaging. You start off with terrible cards and you have to trade your way up or pull better cards from packs which you should probably forget because the chance that your going to pull something actually good from a pack is so rare you might as well forget it(especially since theres a limited number of good cards in a pack so if you don't hop on immediately when they come out your out of luck). The trading part is fun temporarily until you realize they expect you to trade up but nobody on StarWarsCardTrader will trade any card for any card thats less than its rarity so your stuck with these terrible cards unless you can get a rare handout from someone. Its pretty obvious they made getting cards extremely hard to pick at your wallet so if this is the game you want go ahead.

They recently put out a set of cards that I wanted all of but the problem was I spent 300k credits to get all 14 cards. And that’s just the regular cards, not the Rare or super rare cards. I’m fine with just collecting the common or uncommon cards and am not really worried about getting rare, super rare, legendary but before when I did this I could collect all the cards in a set and get the trophy much easier without spending a ton of credits. The new odds/ratios are not favorable at all especially when you only have a week to collect the cards before they go away. Also I wouldn’t mind spending some actual money buying credits to use occasionally, but even then the way the game is set up, I find myself buying less and less credits because it’s just not worth it anymore. Bring back the option to spend 25k credits and in return get 10 packs of 5 or 10. Very disappointed.

Love StarWarsCardTrader and really enjoy collecting these amazing Star Wars cards. Really enjoying the new curated section, but StarWarsCardTrader update touts “want to have all your Lando cards in one place?” Then limits the curated collection to 200 cards. 200 sounds like a lot but I have more than that. Would love extra trade filters (active sets, completed sets) to help the trade process. Unfortunately if you mistakenly try to trade for a card that someone has a full set of, their response can be very harsh (that’s a whole other subject). Wish they would move the add comment “+” away from the “accept” button. Return the “X” close button back to the bottom. Most phones these days make reaching the top right of the screen almost impossible one handed.

So, the update has made sound during lock on a constant on feature, making using StarWarsCardTrader a big pain now. I submitted a support request, but never got a response. They just don’t care. The new opening system takes far too long now. So basically the update has forced me to use it far less now.

New Update: well, they fixed the sound issue, only to introduce a new issue that locks up StarWarsCardTrader requiring a hard restart if you click the “X” during the unnecessarily long pack opening animation. The lack of coding competence is mind boggling. I love Star Wars, but StarWarsCardTrader has become stale and unimaginative. The new card design is horrible, the characters they are including are bad. Time to cut my losses and move on.

I love these Topps apps, but I have noticed that they are all having the same issue lately. They seem to be trying to open another window (maybe an ad) but nothing opens. You have to just log out and try again. I am patient with StarWarsCardTrader, so I am ok. But others will not be so patient. And they might just quit the apps. I notice this across all my Topps apps (Bunt, Slam, Skate, Marvel, and Star Wars). So something is going on. If it is an ad popup, that’s fine but make sure it works. I will sit through a short ad, but it isn’t working and causing StarWarsCardTrader to crash. And the issue is getting worse. Please address it with your customers so we know what is happening. A little transparency goes a long way. Thanks.

StarWarsCardTrader needs much needed bug fixing and various things to make it fair to all users. I have a friend who started about the same time as me and only staying on trying to give me their cards. Neither of us can see what the use of bulk trading is as it only allows either on to trade max of 1 card with no option to edit. Thus trading 9 cards at a time. Sadly now if 2 trades is sent 1 is auto voided by StarWarsCardTrader , so one has to accept before sending another trade.

There’s other issues too. Free currency by watching videos is wishful thinking because it only causes crashes and never anything else. It works in getting energy for lock on usually, but never anything else. Also terrible lag or random crashes especially in the workbench area. We’ve also noticed StarWarsCardTrader drains the battery. My friend has a Samsung 21 phone and me the iPad. I’m rating a 3 because it’s usable but frustrating to use.

I was a lifelong Star Wars fan and I’ve held on as long as I can but I’ve finally gotten to the point where I’m tired of seeing what I love be abused and destroyed. Kathleen Kennedy has ruined George Lucas’ beloved franchise and taken it so far off course that I don’t know if it will ever be salvageable. The focus on characters struggled, the battle between good and evil and the gritty storytelling are all gone and replaced with ridiculously uninventive stories full of badly written dialog. There has also been a long push by Kennedy to vilify any male characters or to make them look weak and incompetent. Her inadequacies off screen in her career have made her jaded and bitter and that has seeped into Star Wars to the point it’s poisoned it. This poison has now found its way into Topps Star Wars. The sets generally seem lackluster and uninspired. With hundreds of amazing artists who have done Star Wars images why aren’t we seeing them as cards? I don’t know how much longer I can handle this. I’m so sad she has ruined something I love. Someone needs to do something to remove her from the company before she leaves only ash. Its become apparent that’s her intent.

StarWarsCardTrader is great, I’m a huge Star Wars fan and all these cards are so cool. I need help though, I purchased the Lieutenant’s offer for $20 (2,500 + 1,500 free, totaling to 4,000 gems) and since my parents have parental controls on, I had to send a request to buy it. Some time later when they approved it, my iCloud account was charged for the $20 but I did not receive the 4K gems. I tried to purchase it again, this time with my parents approving almost instantly, and I received the 4k, but my parents account was charged. Is there any way I could retrieve the 4k gems that was lost or a refund? This was a few days ago, but I still would like some help if you can please.

I recently joined earlier this year and am enjoying this game greatly. I love collecting new cards and trading but at some times I have problems. Some people in the community have multiple duplicates of a card with a high global count that they are not hoarding, and they don’t trade them for a fair price. I do like some people in the community as they help new players get a good start. I think that they need to rerelease some sets, but not all. The commemorative series was rereleased and that was good. But i think that sets that some people almost completed should become available again for crystal purchases only or higher prices. I love the game and I have had loads of fun but like any app the game could always be better as nothing can be perfect.

Life used to be simple before the update. I’ve yet to figure out how to send a trade or leave a message since the update. Who cares about seeing the cards you recently collected whose format takes up 20% of your screen? When someone sends me a trade there is no indication on my card as to how many I have of it or if the card being offered is a card I need. I lost a week of special holiday cards at Christmas trying to get 22,500 diamonds I purchased credited to my account. When you want to look at your collection of cards the year joined is the default place it starts instead of the current year every time. There is no search box to find sets you are working on to see what cards you need to finish the set, instead you have to scroll through sets listed alphabetically. I would say at this point StarWarsCardTrader is different but in no way better.

StarWarsCardTrader is great overall and are really creative for different card releases but my one complaint is that real money makes it only possible to get good hits, I would like to see more credit giveaways, they only give 2 crystals here and there which you can't do anything with, I rather get nothing if that's how they want to do it, I would like to see at least once a month them give away 300 to 500 crystals, or different sets completed have a crystal reward. I don't know what their overhead is to maintain StarWarsCardTrader itself but they have to be killing it on the amount of money people spend on StarWarsCardTrader on a daily basis, they should really give back to the people that put food on their tables and a roof over their heads.

I picked this up about a month ago with my nephew and we are having a great time trading cards back and forth and putting sets together/chasing cards we want. Of course there is a pay model that enables you to have better odds....but unlike a MAJORITY of other games...you don’t feel like you are getting screwed or that there’s no point if you don’t pay. I have used an iTunes card and purchased crystals but it’s more like an option and not that feeling of pointlessness you get from other games if you don’t. I love it and can’t recommend it enough to Star Wars fans. Send messages and make friends to trade with and enjoy!