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BitLife - Life Simulator
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Top complaints - extracted from 46 negative reviews
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"game"
32 negative reviews mention this · 70% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun Game with Bad Marketing. This game is very reminiscent of the sims and i believe it has fallen into that pitfall. To put it in perspective this game get only paid updates and changes. You pay foe bitizenship then for the ability to start a company, or buying specif…" - RezSev
2
"money"
16 negative reviews mention this · 35% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not loving this game. Iam not loving this game. This game has gotten money hungry. I brought god mode 02/28/2021. Today I update my app and my god mode is gone and have to debug the job perks and everything else not for 4.99$ how it was but NOW $17.99 WHAT TYPE …" - Sofashion09
3
"play"
8 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun Game with Bad Marketing. This game is very reminiscent of the sims and i believe it has fallen into that pitfall. To put it in perspective this game get only paid updates and changes. You pay foe bitizenship then for the ability to start a company, or buying specif…" - RezSev
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"everything"
8 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not loving this game. Iam not loving this game. This game has gotten money hungry. I brought god mode 02/28/2021. Today I update my app and my god mode is gone and have to debug the job perks and everything else not for 4.99$ how it was but NOW $17.99 WHAT TYPE …" - Sofashion09
5
"hungry"
7 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not loving this game. Iam not loving this game. This game has gotten money hungry. I brought god mode 02/28/2021. Today I update my app and my god mode is gone and have to debug the job perks and everything else not for 4.99$ how it was but NOW $17.99 WHAT TYPE …" - Sofashion09
6
"money hungry"
7 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not loving this game. Iam not loving this game. This game has gotten money hungry. I brought god mode 02/28/2021. Today I update my app and my god mode is gone and have to debug the job perks and everything else not for 4.99$ how it was but NOW $17.99 WHAT TYPE …" - Sofashion09
7
"every"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BRO LIARS. They told me p diddy was gonna invite me to his baby oil party abd they lied because im genuinely Jeffery dahmer and that made me kill myself and now I’m in hell writing this because I never god the baby oil and to see diddy and everyone I …" - Meshsjsjw
8
"years"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Was a great game till everything became pay to play. One of the few games I’ve spent actual money years ago. Was a couple bucks and took the ads off. Decided to try it again and can’t even play a minute of it without an ad playing… not to mention it’ll give me prompts for add ons that will co…" - sam:on
9
"work"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game is horrible. I bought. The gang one and when I try to join a gang and act up in class it doesn’t work and even when I tried to buy the athlete one I already bought it and it said did I want it for free and I clicked yes and it said I can’t use it this g…" - Va/4k
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"purchased"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Took my Money. I purchased the no ads version and it didn’t work. I wrote to support and never got any answer or refund." - ghjkksgnbd
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"love"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Inaccessible. Hello. I love this game overall. But I can't find the tasks that I need to complete daily and just have to guess. Can you put something on the main menu for this? Also, I have an idea to add birth defects and disabilities. Also, add voiceov…" - AbbyLovesPop
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"anything"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money hunger. The game could be fun but you have to pay to do anything interesting and they spam you with ads." - jrndbdb
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BRO LIARS
They told me p diddy was gonna invite me to his baby oil party abd they lied because im genuinely Jeffery dahmer and that made me kill myself and now I’m in hell writing this because I never god the baby oil and to see diddy and everyone I wanted to diddle like Cherri and ani and todoroki like bro what
Not loving this game
Iam not loving this game. This game has gotten money hungry. I brought god mode 02/28/2021. Today I update my app and my god mode is gone and have to debug the job perks and everything else not for 4.99$ how it was but NOW $17.99 WHAT TYPE OF MONEY HUNGRY SCAM IS THIS. THIS IS crazyyyyy. I need help. It’s no way in app to get my purchase and I am signed in with the right apple account.
The ads are brutal
The constant ads makes me not even wanna play the game.
Terrible
Everything cool about the game is behind a paywall there’s adds after every action and to get rid of adds you have to pay the developers are just money hungry instead of making the game enjoyable for everyone they only make it enjoyable for people who pay
Inaccessible
Hello. I love this game overall. But I can't find the tasks that I need to complete daily and just have to guess. Can you put something on the main menu for this? Also, I have an idea to add birth defects and disabilities. Also, add voiceover accessible again because if you don't I'll as Apple for refund and go to a new game.
Was a great game till everything became pay to play
One of the few games I’ve spent actual money years ago. Was a couple bucks and took the ads off. Decided to try it again and can’t even play a minute of it without an ad playing… not to mention it’ll give me prompts for add ons that will cost extra.
Money hunger
The game could be fun but you have to pay to do anything interesting and they spam you with ads.
This game is horrible
I bought. The gang one and when I try to join a gang and act up in class it doesn’t work and even when I tried to buy the athlete one I already bought it and it said did I want it for free and I clicked yes and it said I can’t use it this game is horrible and I do not like this game it’s a scam for your money I will unfollow BitLife and get a refund because they scammed me and will delete this game
AI garbage slop
Using Ai like the greedy greedy pigs they are
Took my Money
I purchased the no ads version and it didn’t work. I wrote to support and never got any answer or refund.
Unplayable
Too much ads
greedy as hell
yeah breathing costs money in this game along with everything else
The game was fun until
The game was fun until I purchased becoming a citizen from the site instead of from the Apple Store and it didn’t work 😵💫, waste of $12.99
Garbage
This “game” is useless garbage. It’s constant a nonstop ads. 30min of “gameplay” equated to maybe 4 min total of actual game and the rest was watching ads. Uninstalled less than 45 minutes after installing
Worst game ever
Keeps crashing
Money hungry
This game used to be amazing when it first came out! Years later and it’s been ruined with crazy purchase plans and ads in every screen… so sad.
Great game
This game is great
Blatant ai use
The marketing for this app is horrendous. It takes celebrity gossip and ai images and promotes it everywhere
Greed
Most money hungry game ever
Everything cost and too many ads
Simple short and true. I was an OG and I used to play this game many years ago before the developers decided to charge people for every single thing they wanna do. Buy this pack, or that pack, this other pack, like good gosh guys cmon. Then even to access the free in game features, you have to watch an add for everything you do which is time consuming and pathetic. For that, I deleted this app just now.
Purchased items that stopped working..
Purchased items years ago that were supposed to be lifetime. Support is not helpful.
App doesn’t remember purchase
Why do I have to repurchase the app? I bought it and deleted it then it’s not remembering that I bought it.
Way to expensive for the type of game
Theres too many packages that cost money. It's a text-based game. The fact a text-based game costs this much is insane.
I played this back when it was free so I've had characters be pro athletes and politicians, so I know for certain it isn't worth as much money as you'd have to pay now.
Used to be a fun game too.
I played this back when it was free so I've had characters be pro athletes and politicians, so I know for certain it isn't worth as much money as you'd have to pay now.
Used to be a fun game too.
Way to much ads and p2w
Theres way to much ads on here onless you get a gamepass for 4.99 and if you want to make yt videos on bitlife or use social media its 7 dollars and for political its 8 dollars mostly you have to buy everything to do anything and I forgot about the per month
So many things on screen
Don’t get me wrong, I love bit life, and have for a long time. I purchased Bitzen whenever it was available, but now there is so many random GUIs on screen that its hard to even focus on the game. Half of the stuff isn’t even explained. Please for the love of god stop making so many micro transaction popups as-well as random screen effects that block my view, or make an option to turn them off completely.
you can’t do most thing
probably requires youtube guide options by options and even then it won’t work
not true simulator because they worry about “realism”
not true simulator because they worry about “realism”
Ads Ruined the Game
It used to be fun, but now after all the new updates there are so many ads you can’t play the game. Deleted it.
So money hungry
Don’t download game. Every fun future cost money to use.
Use to be fun when it first came out
Man this game has become one of the most money hungry his games that I’ve ever played, I used to play one of our first came out. It was so fun. I think they had all the pets combined for like one low price and replace power now you got one pack for $50. Etc..trash and greedy
AI
No more AI
Game.
This so-called game has numerous paywalls. I purchased a seemingly promising item called Bitizen and God Mode for $12.99. However, this is only the extent of what you can do with the God Mode appearance of characters and attributes. You can start your royal life. Now, with Bitizen, you can play as your descendants after you die. Okay, now I’ll tell you what I didn’t like. God Mode gives you the option for a special talent, which is useless. All your life, you can’t do anything exciting unless you spend money. Want to be a criminal? Game Pass. Want to be a sports player? Game Pass. I understand that’s how they generate revenue. I tried to request a refund for denying access to already used content, but keep in mind that I sent the email 10 minutes after purchase.
Don’t buy through BitLife store
I purchased my first bitizen package but I never got any of the benefits and it’s asking me to pay for it AGAIN
Too much paid features
This app is flooded with features that are only able to be used if you pay to use them. Not only that, there are also countless DIFFERENT paid features, meaning you have to pay several times in order to do all the different things. I find it really intricate and i used to love this game but now it feels like developers are prioritizing the amount of money that comes into their pockets rather than user satisfaction.
Nothing is free anymore
Before you could AT LEAST get a career for free if your character had the respective trait, now it doesn’t matter and you need to pay just to access careers. Years ago there were barely any micro transactions but now the game is just a walking ad. Don’t fill this company’s pockets
Adds
It is literally filled with so much adds that i got so annoyed with the adds that i died
Fun Game with Bad Marketing
This game is very reminiscent of the sims and i believe it has fallen into that pitfall. To put it in perspective this game get only paid updates and changes. You pay foe bitizenship then for the ability to start a company, or buying specific houses etc.
Overall very scummy paywalls that you hit if you try to play it for more than 30 minutes. I say this fully having paid for them too. This game is good and fun but the company has ruined it.
Overall very scummy paywalls that you hit if you try to play it for more than 30 minutes. I say this fully having paid for them too. This game is good and fun but the company has ruined it.
lag
so laggy now i can barely play. kicks me from the game every 5 mins. can’t even do the mini games cause the lag so bad. fix this
Used to be good!
This game used to be good but now it’s just covered in weird and sketchy adds.
Scammed me when I bought bit citizen for 10 bucks!
Just wow give me my money back
Fun game
This is a really fun game but it’s no longer accessible with VoiceOver after recent update. This started with the shift to the new season in April
too expensive for what???
im not paying 15 for the game to be more entertaining 😹 js money hungry.
Too many ads
I love the game but I can’t do anything on it longer than 5 seconds without another ad popping up. I understand having ads on a game but the is excessive.
Meh
I’ve played BitLife from time to time to the point I’m hyper fixated on the game. It’s a phase that happens often, especially with boredom over the years. With that being said, the game has drastically declined in my opinion.
1) Ads. There are so many ads like every 3 minutes (exaggerating maybe). It’s like, every other time I go into the Bit’s personal info, school/work stuff, or even just wanna raise a stat up, there’s an ad hiding and waiting to pop up every time. In the past, it was not like this. Like there were ads but not this excessive. It makes the game hardly playable.
2) Packs. You need a pack to do ANYTHING on the game now. Before, you were at least able to pick a good amount of careers, adopt pets outside of the shelter and other things. Now, you need a pack for practically EVERYTHING.
I feel like these are major things that have changed that are bringing down the game. It’s excessive and the game isn’t enjoyable.
1) Ads. There are so many ads like every 3 minutes (exaggerating maybe). It’s like, every other time I go into the Bit’s personal info, school/work stuff, or even just wanna raise a stat up, there’s an ad hiding and waiting to pop up every time. In the past, it was not like this. Like there were ads but not this excessive. It makes the game hardly playable.
2) Packs. You need a pack to do ANYTHING on the game now. Before, you were at least able to pick a good amount of careers, adopt pets outside of the shelter and other things. Now, you need a pack for practically EVERYTHING.
I feel like these are major things that have changed that are bringing down the game. It’s excessive and the game isn’t enjoyable.
Fun when it’s working.
Hello BitLife devs, BitLife doesn’t work for me on iPhone. I am a accessibility user, I use voiceover. My phone is on the latest update of iOS. can you please fix the amazing app that has bring me a lot of fun. Thank you hope you’re having a good year.
It’s a fun but not worth it
I literally got 72 viruses from this game it’s not even worth playing now I have to pay another 1k dollars for another phone
Great game but mini bug issues
I’ve achieved a lot in this game, but I've lost it all because of the bugs. I reached out to the tech team for help to recover everything I lost, but I have not gotten a response. I am not giving up on this game but would love for you guys to reach out so we can fix this issue and I can recover what I lost and I can continue playing this game because I really love it.
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)