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Goal Battle - Soccer Games
Mage Games · 7,331 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 36 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.
1
"game"
23 negative reviews mention this · 64% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Trap. You’ll pick up more wins after spending money. If you don’t spend, you will see your players slow down, when you switch players, it won’t be to the closest to the ball/player with ball, all the way on the other side. You will shoot 17 times…" - FindingAnewGame
2
"play"
12 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Trap. You’ll pick up more wins after spending money. If you don’t spend, you will see your players slow down, when you switch players, it won’t be to the closest to the ball/player with ball, all the way on the other side. You will shoot 17 times…" - FindingAnewGame
3
"money"
9 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Trap. You’ll pick up more wins after spending money. If you don’t spend, you will see your players slow down, when you switch players, it won’t be to the closest to the ball/player with ball, all the way on the other side. You will shoot 17 times…" - FindingAnewGame
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"players"
9 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Trap. You’ll pick up more wins after spending money. If you don’t spend, you will see your players slow down, when you switch players, it won’t be to the closest to the ball/player with ball, all the way on the other side. You will shoot 17 times…" - FindingAnewGame
5
"games"
6 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much lag. Too many unfair matches. It used to be fun. But now it’s 2 minute commercials of the same commercial for Kalshi 3 times. Or playing against people who paid for the best characters. Why am ai getting pitted against grand masters with full stats? Make the game fair f…" - KingofShop
6
"spend"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Trap. You’ll pick up more wins after spending money. If you don’t spend, you will see your players slow down, when you switch players, it won’t be to the closest to the ball/player with ball, all the way on the other side. You will shoot 17 times…" - FindingAnewGame
7
"other"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Trap. You’ll pick up more wins after spending money. If you don’t spend, you will see your players slow down, when you switch players, it won’t be to the closest to the ball/player with ball, all the way on the other side. You will shoot 17 times…" - FindingAnewGame
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"characters"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Trap. You’ll pick up more wins after spending money. If you don’t spend, you will see your players slow down, when you switch players, it won’t be to the closest to the ball/player with ball, all the way on the other side. You will shoot 17 times…" - FindingAnewGame
9
"match"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Frustrating, unfair and endless ads. I played this game for a long time, it used to be fun but now it’s just frustrating and unfair. 1. Inconsistent characters performance: You can obviously tell same character perform much different across matches. The game is heavily manipul…" - LarslarsL
10
"getting"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much lag. Too many unfair matches. It used to be fun. But now it’s 2 minute commercials of the same commercial for Kalshi 3 times. Or playing against people who paid for the best characters. Why am ai getting pitted against grand masters with full stats? Make the game fair f…" - KingofShop
11
"update"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Update. Needs a Serious update!! You can’t even make any actions while running!! I had such high hopes for this game…" - Sh8oon
12
"times"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Trap. You’ll pick up more wins after spending money. If you don’t spend, you will see your players slow down, when you switch players, it won’t be to the closest to the ball/player with ball, all the way on the other side. You will shoot 17 times…" - FindingAnewGame
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Money Trap
You’ll pick up more wins after spending money. If you don’t spend, you will see your players slow down, when you switch players, it won’t be to the closest to the ball/player with ball, all the way on the other side. You will shoot 17 times, maybe make 1 goal. You ask the developers and they will say stuff that makes no sense. You can have the best players in the game and make perfect shots and won’t hit one. Or my favorite, goalie all of sudden can’t stop anything against lesser characters. It’s all to get you mad and spend more money.
Ads
Making a user watch an ad after losing a game is absurd.
Frustrating, unfair and endless ads
I played this game for a long time, it used to be fun but now it’s just frustrating and unfair. 1. Inconsistent characters performance: You can obviously tell same character perform much different across matches. The game is heavily manipulated to push in-app purchases or watch more ads - very little related to your skills. 2: More and more broken ads that can last minutes with useless and redundant information. Whoever paid to deploy ads in this game, they will not help your business but only push people away with frustration. Too bad it’s a good concept for a quick match, but have a terrible and greedy execution. don’t even bother to play
Only Ads..
This game was really fun when released.. Now either you pay or watch an ad after each game!!!
Insane how the devs can take your game experience down just to earn few extra bucks
Reconsider because you gonna lose a lot of players just don’t be greedy.
Insane how the devs can take your game experience down just to earn few extra bucks
Reconsider because you gonna lose a lot of players just don’t be greedy.
Ads
I like the game but the ads the ads are too long please developer remove ads from the game
Too much lag. Too many unfair matches
It used to be fun. But now it’s 2 minute commercials of the same commercial for Kalshi 3 times. Or playing against people who paid for the best characters. Why am ai getting pitted against grand masters with full stats? Make the game fair for everyone. If people want to pay for an advantage. Let them play against others similar to them if that’s their thing. If someone has all 8 special attacks and someone else only has 3. Then allow the person with 8 to choose their best 3 to compete to make it fair. I deleted the app today. Far too much lag and even with 70% wins after 2,000 games. It’s no fun playing against players who paid for all the exclusive characters and the games graphics can’t keep up and lags the whole match..
😤😤😤
If you buy something in the game, you'll start winning; if not, don't even try, you won't win.
Disappointing and Unethical
I have played this game for about a year - I have really liked the gameplay and the game overall. Unfortunately, the company has consistently taken steps to cater to new players through various means such as nerfing beloved mechanics in response to complaints from new players. The company also has implemented some form of adaptive difficulty which artificially buffs goalkeeper performance for one side and nerfs the GK for the other side. This has been attested to and documented by many long term players on the official discord server.
These frustrations were bad enough, however, the most egregious thing from this company was their recent horrendous handling of a major tournament where the 1st prize was $15,000. Assurances were made on the discord server that the winner would be ultimately based on who put the most time in - but the company ended up extending the event and creating challenges that involved rewarding players with points for spending in game currency (gems) or opening chests (which takes gems). This resulted in the top players who put a lot of time and money into the event losing their standing to newer accounts that came in and spent thousands of dollars to steal the top prizes. Despite being a terrible and scummy business practice, this seems to clearly violate the terms of service for the prize event which stated that no purchase was necessary and that purchases would not confer any direct advantage to winning the event. It seems to me that creating challenges where players could earn an unlimited amount of points toward the tournament through buying in-game currency violates these terms.
For me this was the last straw and I cannot play or recommend this game anymore on principle.
These frustrations were bad enough, however, the most egregious thing from this company was their recent horrendous handling of a major tournament where the 1st prize was $15,000. Assurances were made on the discord server that the winner would be ultimately based on who put the most time in - but the company ended up extending the event and creating challenges that involved rewarding players with points for spending in game currency (gems) or opening chests (which takes gems). This resulted in the top players who put a lot of time and money into the event losing their standing to newer accounts that came in and spent thousands of dollars to steal the top prizes. Despite being a terrible and scummy business practice, this seems to clearly violate the terms of service for the prize event which stated that no purchase was necessary and that purchases would not confer any direct advantage to winning the event. It seems to me that creating challenges where players could earn an unlimited amount of points toward the tournament through buying in-game currency violates these terms.
For me this was the last straw and I cannot play or recommend this game anymore on principle.
The app kick me out!
I am not able to play the game once i open the app it is stopping at 19% then the app kick me out
IPHONE X
IPHONE X
Pay-to-Play & BOTS the game.
There is no fairness or balance. You are either competing against a robot designed to win or someone who spends their life being pay pigs. Also the 2X goal power is so dumb, what’s even the point if some pay pig is just going to buy out the game. It makes it unplayable. So regardless there’s no fun to be had here. Also you only get 15 plays a day if you want more you have to watch advertisements that can be longer than 5 minutes or you guessed it sellout and pay REAL money! I’m uninstalling the app and highly recommended nobody wastes their time.
KindaLame ngl
It feels like everyone you play is an AI, and the fields all look weird too
We need more time
It’s only 60 seconds to play in a match
Horrible network code
game lags during games but not other times. Running wireshark over the time showed network traffic spiked during matches at a ridiculous rate. I am assuming the are averaging the speeds from the opponent network. Getting games crashes causes match loss. Avoid this trap of a game
Best game… for watching ads
This game takes the cake for the most ads ever. It’s crazy how greedy the developers are. It’s unplayable.
Update
Needs a Serious update!! You can’t even make any actions while running!!
I had such high hopes for this game…
I had such high hopes for this game…
Getting old
I’m tired of having diamond n you guys find a way to make me use them with out my permission
Got real bad
Since they updated it, it’s gotten slower. Devs are forcing you buy stuff to actually build the team.
They slowed it down since new players were getting destroyed, but they still get destroyed.
They slowed it down since new players were getting destroyed, but they still get destroyed.
DO NOT SPEND MONEY!!
Every major update comes with massive bugs. This time, some players are immune from tackles, players teleport, the ball magically moves to other players. Play this for giggles. But don’t spend money. Don’t listen to the developer. It’s all bots and every time we figure them out, they update and give them magical powers. In 1/4 of my games, the ball magically freezes when goalie throws and I freeze until the bot scores.
M
Used to be the best game but after the last update it’s not.
Not Online - Scam
Falsely advertises online matchmaking. I have only played bots, which I have confirmed in every ‘online’ match I have played. Waste of time and a waste of money. Until this is corrected, this game falsely advertises its online matchmaking which is technically illegal and a deceptive trade practice. Do not play nor spend money on this scam of a game.
MOH
Why there is no training?????
All about money
As soon as u reach to level 6. U can tell it’s all about money .. I don’t recommend it
TICKETS NEEDS TO BE UNLIMITED!
Read the title.
Another cheap pay to win unoriginal
Super fun for a few days but as soon as I got past arena 5 is just players paying to win. Needs to stick to a max of 2 special powers per game. Once 4 or more unlocked it’s just a battle of using special powers rather than strategy. I refuse to spend a single cent on pvp games but unfortunately there’s a bunch of players that put $100s into this game which simply makes their team faster, stronger and more powerful shots. Just overall disappointing how many characters are stuck behind paywalls and subscriptions. Do better.
Ads Ugh
It’s Ad after Ad to get anything without paying money. Ads I understand are part of it but they last a few minutes before it will let you claim anything. It’s not worth it at all to play. You will spend more time watching Ads than playing.
Trash, SCAM, Don’t waste you time
Goal Battle looked fun at first, but it quickly became obvious it’s just another pay-to-play scam. The matchmaking is ridiculously unfair - unless you shell out real money for upgrades and boosts, you’re stuck getting destroyed by overpowered players who bought their way to the top.
Progression is painfully slow unless you pay, and even then, the in-game purchases are overpriced and barely give you any real advantage. It’s obvious the developers care more about draining wallets than making a fun or fair game. Add in constant crashes, repetitive gameplay, and a boring grind, and you’ve got a total waste of time.
Avoid this one unless you enjoy getting scammed.
Progression is painfully slow unless you pay, and even then, the in-game purchases are overpriced and barely give you any real advantage. It’s obvious the developers care more about draining wallets than making a fun or fair game. Add in constant crashes, repetitive gameplay, and a boring grind, and you’ve got a total waste of time.
Avoid this one unless you enjoy getting scammed.
Loading time
It takes too long to load
Update deleted my account
The recent update deleted my account. Now I have to start over. I was deep into this game too, unlocked almost all the epic characters.
Update
Lost all of my progress on the most recent update. It started me from the beginning like it was my first time playing
Ad
The game is good everything perfect, but the ad is so much annoying
Lost Progress After Reinstall
The game has a login system, but I was playing as a guest. Even so, I was allowed to make in-app purchases and spent real money. After deleting and reinstalling the app, my entire progress and purchases were lost, and there is no clear way to recover a guest account.
If payments are allowed, the game should require account creation or account binding to protect users’ progress. Players should be able to log in again and continue their game, especially after spending money.
Other than that it's a good game i enjoyed playing it.
If payments are allowed, the game should require account creation or account binding to protect users’ progress. Players should be able to log in again and continue their game, especially after spending money.
Other than that it's a good game i enjoyed playing it.
Lag
I really like this game but the lag is a big problem. I’ve lost a few times and all but one or two are from lag issues. Almost a really fun game if it wasn’t for that. Just lost a 10 game streak because my game lagged out. Delete
Terrible upgrades make us use coins than make us pay for gems to upgrade the goalie that’s just dumb
I don’t understand the point of making us pay with coins then have to buy gems just to upgrade a goalie that’s is terrible unless you have the rhino or better I’ve put in $20+ just to have a good team but my goalie is terrible need better ways to upgrade the goalie since he is the one that you cannot control!!!
Glitchy
I liked game but it has become popular and now can lag and be glitchy. It is super annoying.
Pay to win
Fun game to be fair, but this is one of the biggest pay to win games I’ve ever come across
Bad matching
The games fun but if you play someone in a different country the connection is terrible and that’s 90% of the time.
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)