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Animation Throwdown: CCG
Kongregate · 42,207 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 44 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"game"
26 negative reviews mention this · 59% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Great game but I’m angry. This is a very difficult review to write. I want to give the game 5 stars. The reason that I want to give it 5 stars is because I played this game for quite a few years and there is so much positive I have to say, but for some reason, my ac…" - JTKolbow
2
"play"
12 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh it’s cool but…. 1. Sometimes my cards don’t attack but instead play their special abilities and then it’s the players turn without them attacking and 2. I get rewards sometimes like gems and I never receive them immediately after closing the app. Some bugs…" - Youalreadyknowmeduh
3
"years"
8 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Great game but I’m angry. This is a very difficult review to write. I want to give the game 5 stars. The reason that I want to give it 5 stars is because I played this game for quite a few years and there is so much positive I have to say, but for some reason, my ac…" - JTKolbow
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"cards"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh it’s cool but…. 1. Sometimes my cards don’t attack but instead play their special abilities and then it’s the players turn without them attacking and 2. I get rewards sometimes like gems and I never receive them immediately after closing the app. Some bugs…" - Youalreadyknowmeduh
5
"money"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Great game but I’m angry. This is a very difficult review to write. I want to give the game 5 stars. The reason that I want to give it 5 stars is because I played this game for quite a few years and there is so much positive I have to say, but for some reason, my ac…" - JTKolbow
6
"been"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun but secretly not. This game is a reflection of life. If you have the money its easy and fun. If you don't want to waste money on something digital that really has no value then the game will feel impossible and you will just spend months and months trying to…" - ldoesuckz
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"every"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stop queuing me up with the same opponents!. Game after game after game, match after match, 75% of the matches I play are against the same opponent. The matchmaking algorithm is 1000% garbage. Other than that, game is great! Still the same dogwater matchmaking since release. OH! A…" - JordyRulez
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"playing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun but secretly not. This game is a reflection of life. If you have the money its easy and fun. If you don't want to waste money on something digital that really has no value then the game will feel impossible and you will just spend months and months trying to…" - ldoesuckz
9
"been playing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun but secretly not. This game is a reflection of life. If you have the money its easy and fun. If you don't want to waste money on something digital that really has no value then the game will feel impossible and you will just spend months and months trying to…" - ldoesuckz
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"into"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Great game but I’m angry. This is a very difficult review to write. I want to give the game 5 stars. The reason that I want to give it 5 stars is because I played this game for quite a few years and there is so much positive I have to say, but for some reason, my ac…" - JTKolbow
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"deck"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Great game but I’m angry. This is a very difficult review to write. I want to give the game 5 stars. The reason that I want to give it 5 stars is because I played this game for quite a few years and there is so much positive I have to say, but for some reason, my ac…" - JTKolbow
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"work"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Great game but I’m angry. This is a very difficult review to write. I want to give the game 5 stars. The reason that I want to give it 5 stars is because I played this game for quite a few years and there is so much positive I have to say, but for some reason, my ac…" - JTKolbow
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Eh it’s cool but…
1. Sometimes my cards don’t attack but instead play their special abilities and then it’s the players turn without them attacking and 2. I get rewards sometimes like gems and I never receive them immediately after closing the app. Some bugs here and there and most matchmaking people aren’t even real I noticed. Anywho, there’s that…
Unplayable
App is frozen on the tutorial no matter how much i delete and redownload it.
Great game but I’m angry
This is a very difficult review to write. I want to give the game 5 stars. The reason that I want to give it 5 stars is because I played this game for quite a few years and there is so much positive I have to say, but for some reason, my account was banned and I can no longer get into the game. I tried contacting the developer and they couldn’t do anything for me, and I feel that that is just unfair. I made many purchases in the game, I enjoyed building my deck, and I loved the interactions with the characters. You should absolutely play this game, it is a blast and it’s awesome to see all of the things that they’ve done in it. I just wish that I could get back in the game and play it again, because I put so much effort time and money into the game. I really hope the developer sees this and can work with me on it, because again this game is amazing and would love to be able to play it again.
Broken
Does not work
NO SNEAKERS OTOOLE
THISBGAME SUCKS IT DOESNT RVEN HAVE THE BEST MOMENT IN FAMILY GUY SNEAKERS OTOOLE
This game is a scam
Theres a lot of things they neex to fix about this sorry ahh game fix the skill match up there should be no reason im js starting the game going up against people that played the game for 8+ years fix the math and the sorry ahh ai if your really enjoying this game rn then I guess you enjoy losing 10+ times in a row
Tutorial wastes too much time
I redownloaded the game to kill time and it didn’t let me continue my progress and have to play through the tutorial through 3 levels for a pretty basic self explanatory game. So i just uninstalled it.
Banned forever?
Haven’t played this in a while thought I’d give it another try. Went to sign in to recover the account, and it showed my account was banned forever due to inactivity. Guess I won’t be giving it another try. Good luck!
Not even Meh
Horrible pay to play game with so many bugs it’s sick. But most importantly, boring.
Banned because I was inactive 😑
I really got banned bc I didn’t play the game for a while… in that case I want my money back I spent on the game!
Issues
Keeps freezing up on me
Can't play?
Can't get past the tutorials
When will The Simpsons be coming? And END THE LIMIT OF KICKS ALREADY!
The Simpsons need to be on here MUCH MORE than Archer. Once The Simpsons join I’ll change this from a 3 star to a 5 star rating. This is way overdue. The Simpsons are the oldest part of Fox’s Animation Domination and they NEED TO BE ON Fox’s Animation Throwdown! ALSO: The game only lets the leader kick inactive players and only 5 at a time and must wait to kick again. This is HURTING my guild as we were once super active and now only 3 of us are and they want inactives kicked out but this game is making SO HARD because only I can kick and only 5 at a time and next thing you know the game starts an event and I’m not able to kick like my active team players want me to. The game is making players quit thus the game is losing money because of this as well. There should be NO LIMIT on kicks
wth happened to combos?
you have to pay 10 dollars a month to even use combos????? what?????
Black Screen
Tried to fix what it asked for but even then there’s still only a black screen and music after allowing ads.
Game used to be fun
The game used to be fun. Now I never get cards to build up a deck of any of the types I need so I’m just constantly getting beat even with all great cards. And I have no way of really getting out of it cause I’m stuck with what I have and not winning.
Game just completely crashed and won’t load
After finally beating level 30 island and completed the challenge for it when receiving the reward the game just won’t stop loading no matter how many times I delete and reinstall it just loads to 19% and nothing else..
Ads don’t work and are a pain
Constant crashes and too many ads
K
Doesn’t let me level up I’m going to delete
Worse over Time
Ruined with buggy ads that you can't close out of. Upgrading cards causes the game to freeze. Much of the game heavily pushes towards micro transactions. Used to be a 5-star game.
Fun but secretly not
This game is a reflection of life. If you have the money its easy and fun. If you don't want to waste money on something digital that really has no value then the game will feel impossible and you will just spend months and months trying to catch up. I've been playing on and off for years and months of everyday game play finally earned me one mythic card. ( people you play against have multiple mythics) I was so excited to realize one mythic doesn't do much you need a bit and they are so expensive or hard to earn. You want a game to escape reality this is not for you. It has its own economic system where the game makes money and you don't. Their sponsors for free gems are a sham too. trying to sell you inferior items for outrageous proces so you can earn about 20 bucks on gems. Gems values don't make sense across the game and dive deep enough you can tell this is just a money machine. No tournemts no challenges to earn money just spend money.
Bugs
Every time upgrade my cards it freezes and logs me out I’ve already gone through the tutorial of upgrading cards. It’s making me do it again I can’t pass. Stan logged me out every time and I have multiple level five cards and it’s saying I still haven’t done the tutorial.
Steal your money
The folks like to steal your money. I attempted to make a purchase and my account was charged 5 times. When I approached customer support they referred me to Apple, who told me that they would not process my refunded because it was the vendors problem. After 8 years and quite a few dollars spent, I am gone.
My last straw
This game has finally gone unbearable. It’s now so badly and incompetently run. If you’re a new player with lots of money, it says, come in, you’re welcome here. If you’ve been playing quite a few years now but haven’t paid a lot, then it says good luck, you’re on your own. Everything’s gone so unbalanced. The bugs are less worse now but it’s still a rotten sour taste.
Used to be fun
I’ve been playing since 2016 and the app crashes way too much now. It started making the experience annoying and my app still doesn’t load past 19%
Same old scummy mobile game
Energy energy energy energy and ads unless you want to pay TEN DOLLARS A MONTH
Done!! Don’t waste your $$ on this scam game
I’ve been playing for about 6-8 months, I engaged in every event etc. for the little crumbs they give you….i even pay the $20 a month for extra crumbs, now that I’m about $300 in I’m done!!! The only way to get mythic cards is to pay out the ____ for them. Or wait 20 years letting those crumbs finally add up.
App does not work on MAC
My screen just stays black when I try to open the game
Combo research freezes game
You don’t care enough to fix your own broken game. Stuck at level 2 because the research machine freezes the game after you select your first card.
Doesn’t work
I can’t even play the game I try to open the app and when it loads past the starting screen the game just crashes and takes me back to my home screen FIX YOUR GAME PLEASE I WANT TO PLAY BUT CANT!!!!
Always freezes
Every time this game gets an update it freezes. I’ve been stuck frozen for 2 days. Game is getting worse
Waste of time
You gotta be a no life to like this game😂
Can’t recommend this game anymore
Nothing more than a trap to get you to pay for the cards you can’t get without spending money. Technically you can get them, but it’ll take you years, and by that time the power creep will make your deck obsolete. It’s built into the design to make it necessary to spend a LOT of money to stay competitive in this game.
I hate when do it do this
It’s not letting me click off the screen desk
Terrible
If I could give this game negative, I would. If you’re thinking about trying this game out, be aware. You’ll never be able to compete. Everyone uses these broke combos. Over powered combos that make the game stupid. You would think that they would fix this but they don’t. I’ve had this game for 5 years, and I don’t stand a chance because of how they structure this game. You’ll learn that once you have any kind of a decent deck that you’ll play against the same overpowered combo over and over. Do not get sucked into this game.
Glitchy
Keeps freezing
Freezes
Game freezes continuously
Stop queuing me up with the same opponents!
Game after game after game, match after match, 75% of the matches I play are against the same opponent.
The matchmaking algorithm is 1000% garbage.
Other than that, game is great! Still the same dogwater matchmaking since release.
OH! And a warning to anyone first getting into the game: DONT EVER USE THE AUTOPLAY FUNCTION!!!
Autoplay screws you over every single time. It’s busted game mechanic.
YOU WILL LOSE EVERY TIME YOU USE AUTOPLAY.
The matchmaking algorithm is 1000% garbage.
Other than that, game is great! Still the same dogwater matchmaking since release.
OH! And a warning to anyone first getting into the game: DONT EVER USE THE AUTOPLAY FUNCTION!!!
Autoplay screws you over every single time. It’s busted game mechanic.
YOU WILL LOSE EVERY TIME YOU USE AUTOPLAY.
Game is broken
It gets stuck making me look at my quest I can’t play
Bug
Can’t upgrade my cards Stan won’t get out of the way :/
Great game that is now a pay to win game
Ive been playing the game for a while now and i recently have downloaded it again and man it feels like the matchmaking has gotten worse. out of 80 games i have won 20... either i am in the wrong league or my competition is and i dont think i should win every single game but there should stand a chance... The AI for auto matches is terrible and even worse for ones you play focusing on throwing down card after card without creating a single combo. Its clearly become a pay to play and pay to win game releasing a game pass now 🙄 which probably adds to the terrible matchmaking if someone who just downloads the game can have an allstar deck in two weeks. Micro transactions ruins games like why does this game need a battle pass????
Can’t Open Quest
I love this game but I can’t open quest. And you need quest to level up. Please fix. I click on quest and nothing happens nothing pops up
Game is freezing
Every now and then when there’s an update it messing the game up. I’ve been playing this since it came out. As of yesterday it started freezing up when I load in, this isn’t the first time this has happened to me, I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it and it’s still doing it. Hopefully this is fixed soon and i would be nice to skip the intro battle stuff so I can sign back into the game quickly.
Ads are disgraceful
Whoever is in charge of ads truly deserves sand in their eyes. Royal Kings ad consisted of a 1 min 40 second for first ad, 35 seconds of second ad and another 15 seconds of third, all what they call “one ad” you have to jump through so many hoops that it makes the experience a joke. I will not support them with buying packs until they fix this.
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)