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I never really write reviews on games or apps, but I felt this game deserves one. It takes strategy, card collecting and basketball and puts it all together and I really enjoy it. I've played this game every day since it came out and I don't plan on stopping. I will say one negative thing about the game and I'm sure it may not even be a bug but I can't craft gear to put on my players once I reached equipment level 4, all the equipment I have on them are from opening bags. I really do enjoy this game, a lot but that one bug is really draining me because I'm more than certain I can possibly go up another equipment level if it gets fixed. This game is amazing nonetheless though.

I received some shards for Donovan Mitchell but he still isn’t unlocked after completing a showdown for what I thought was to unlock him. How does that work? Also I opened a pack and received 100 shards of Draymond Green but he still isn’t unlocked. What’s going on? Is there a difference between unlocking a player and getting shards for them? How is it possible to get shards of a player without unlocking them? Was this a glitch? If so I will settle for Allen Iverson maxed out. Lol 😅 ..... seriously though, could you please answer my first couple questions? Please and thank you.

A little slow at first but with any game that’s a given at the beginning. Like it overall and how it switches up on you with the Grey blocks and the switching of the board from time to time. I’ll admit though some of the stuff still needs a little bit of an explanation cause I’m not sure what I’m doing sometimes and I think the other players do better which probably means it’s getting harder and harder. Just doesn’t makes sense when some of the players look like they’re at a lower level but doing better? Anyways, that just means I have to be more strategic in what I do in the game. Definitely a Game Changer (did you see what I did there? LOL). If you know, you know. 💕

So I downloaded this from KOT4Q’s sponsorship and it actually looked pretty cool. I downloaded the game and then started to do the tutorial. It was pretty easy getting me to learn the ropes and the first few games were pretty easy. Then I ran into a bad game. There was noting on the board, my players special meter wasn’t full, time was running out and I started at 17 percent shot rate. I ended out with 26. Then I was on defense and I realized that the opposing team’s player had their special meter almost full and they started out at 50 percent so I couldn’t even prevent the special. Next possession, same thing as last. Low starting shot %, nothing to put it up by a lot, and my players special meter was still low. This happens every game once you reach a certain point. The delay in between pressing the board and being able to press it again is painful. This game really has potential. There is the great crossover concept, the devs were able to strike a deal with one of the biggest 2k YouTubers ever, and it has good graphics, just in the wrong places. Focus more on the players for the graphics as oppose to the board. Reduce the board delay, make the board easier, make the progression faster, make the teams easier and allow players to pass the ball.

I’ve seen a lot of comments on here about how the game is so fun but that it just flat out cheats. I’ll be a little more detailed for the devs to actually take a look at it. The abilities for the AI are very obviously broken/designed me to make you lose. I, the player, get one of my abilities to trigger a game where the AI gets FOUR in a row. You can’t win. It’s not about getting better as a player. It’s about possibly sinking money into it to get higher statted players. Cool. The board also very clearly plays against your chosen team. Don’t have a blue player out there? Be prepared to see SO MANY BLUE TILES DROP. and this is any player. While on the board let’s talk about the game dropping pieces that disable certain colors. Cool. An interesting mechanic. Except more often than not the game drops them in unsolvable locations. It’s not a puzzle if you can’t get rid of them. They get trapped in places that effectively end that color for the rest of the game and also effectively making you lose because, you guessed it, we cycle back to the AI getting 3 ability triggers in a row to cheat you. No matter how well you play Such a fun time this game is, honestly! There are F2P mechanics that make it so that you DONT have to put money in. I’ve felt like putting money in to support the devs because I’m having a good time! But I won’t because the game is just cheating a good portion of the time.

The game is good but it could be great. This game is associated with the NBA right? So, use part of that money for better graphics. You probably have like 12 animations in total when your playing the game. So fix all 12 with better graphics & better animations. Make it look real, & make the cards look more clear in a way there body’s look funny. I get that it’s a small game but use the money for great things in the game & give us me customizations like jersey changes, court changes & locations, make some players hair move & the jersey. But like a workout mode so that’s other way to update your players & a practice shoot around. Also make your own commentary. Get brand deal to help you guys with the shoes such as Nike,Jordan,Adidas etc. maybe let us make our own custom card & crate what he looks like & use are skills & what not. Inclusion, just give us more options & better graphics

I think the concept of the game is interesting, but there seems to be a lack of balance. The CPU gets their power ups very easily, while it takes forever to build up enough energy for your own. I also think the puzzle board doesn't have enough going on, making it very easy to get stuck with too many tiny clusters which drain the match of their fun. The level up/rating system also seems a little uneven, as it's not entirely clear how they determine some players are better when they are the same level. Also every team you play in versus and in season seems to have the same collection of players. I'm hoping the diversity of the player pool increases over time. The player models also look ok, but I get that they're limited with what they can do in a tiny mobile game.

I got this game on release excited cause of the adds then I played and saw that the game got more difficult which was good cause it made you have to be strategic about which gems to explode and so on. Then it got to the point about making your new players stronger after you used all available gears (tier 1-2). They fixed that which was great. Now that I played and beat both seasons and since showdown takes forever to fill up so I can play the actual challenging ones and arena takes a day off to do whatever I cannot even play the game right now which makes the game bad very bad. So during this time I can upgrade players cause I can’t play to get upgrade materials. I can’t do daily rewards cause it requires you to be able to play the game. But it’s ok it can all be fixed. Here’s how, make the showdown recovery timer lower like 50 in 8-10 hours, make the showdown entry fee less. Also make the showdown limit higher so you can accumulate more. Make more seasons and better season rewards and arena awards when you get to the next tier not at the end of an arena season so you can always play arena Even when everything else is out. Also take away arena tickets. Add more ways to get players like a tournament for certain players.

A fun game when starting fresh. At about 49 wins into the season, the opponents’ OVR (the overall rating/power) takes a drastic increase. The game’s strategy and progression is actually pretty deep, and could be much more enjoyable if you can “win”. As you cruise through the season with a game play of popping color gems, beyond 50 wins, you start to lose game 3, 5, 10 games in a row. The same goes for Verus mode where you play with other players. The only way to advance your OVR and continue with the season is 1- SPEND REAL MONEY, 2- grind through daily activities where you consume tickets that will recharge over time. All of a sudden, the main game becomes a side game and the side game becomes the main. After 3 days, I felt no motivation since no amount of strategy can win a game, especially with AI being unbelievably tilted favoring your opponent, the fun and the deep strategy feeling diminished. What’s the point of continue on with the game?

First day of playing I didn’t have a single problem. Everything went right and I was having a lot of fun. Second day was the same thing, and so was the third day. But then on day 4 something weird happened. I can’t play anymore. Every time I open the app, a message pops up saying I need to be connected to a wifi. I’m pretty sure I have a good wifi as I can do anything in internet and takes no time to load things. It’s annoying as I physically can’t do anything to play the game. I was having a zoom meeting the same time the game told me I had no connection. How’s that even possible? I can’t claim rewards, play games nor do anything as the message keeps popping up and doesn’t lets me do anything. It’s not a problem with my wifi, it’s the game. I’ll change this review once this problem is solved, as I’m really looking forward to keep playing this awesome game… Thanks for reading and I beg for this to get fixed.

First off all the game looks great and the concept of matching crystals to pull off your shot is incredible. However, after season 3 the game is crap. You face off against opponents wayyyyy harder. While your guys are capped off at level 60 ( however this most recent update let’s you raise pass 60 but is IMPOSSIBLE since you only gain about 30 exp per match and you need Like 30,000 just to level to 61). Versus mode is a mess where opponents can play you, but you can’t rematch them back because either they are not part of the tournament( which makes no sense since he recently played me like an hour ago). And don’t even get me started about gettting those bigger basketball players like Lebron James. Unless you willing to pay a lot of money... good luck collecting those very rare shards to unlock them. Money grabbing company. You guys had something good but greed overtook this

The game is terrible, when you play online it’s impossible to win you always go up against better players. You need a system to make it more fun. When playing “season” if it can be called that the AI gets special plays so easily but it is impossible for the real player to get it. The players are the most unrealistic things ever they look terrible. Upgrades make no sense I draft a player level him up and he barely gets better. I had Bam leveled him up and he only went up 2-3 overalls and was worse than most of my other players. I don’t get why people are giving the game 5-stars major updates need to come and they don’t know what they are talking about. People aren’t giving reasons so someone needs to tell me why you people think this game is good. Just please update if not I will bring my review down to 1-star.

It takes you the whole game to be able to use your abilities on your players which is a guaranteed stop on defense or bucket on offense and your opponent no matter the level will get there ability in one hand which gives them more points or turnovers on defense leading to fast breaks. Which is funny I didn’t even know they were in the game till the enemy got 4 steals and 4 fast breaks in one 4 hand seriously every time I got the ball back from them scoring I came down and they took it back and scored about idk how this was possible but it sucked. The enemy hit shots that were 5% chance of going in and I can’t hit anything that’s not 100%. Kid you not I got a 97% and I missed this game is beyond terrible makes no sense how your overall is 3 times the enemy but they still win I had a 80 and overall was 20 but I low three times makes no sense

I just downloaded this game today and I was looking forward to playing it. But however lags just slapped me in the face. First it said that I have a slow internet connection but I have 5g internet from Verizon and when I picked my team and was on the court the game froze and kicked me out. Net marble you cant make a good game if it slaps you in the face. That’s why your putting 5 star game in your reviews because they’re bots and you know it. Your a sellout company that is washed up. Your just like Ea. You don’t listen to your reviews. Every dev that made this game or thought of it should be fired. I will never play one of your games ever again. And one day people I’ll realize that your a horrible company that will never be that popular ever again you menaces to society. I would rather drink hand sanitizer than play one of your games. I hope you get sued one day for being this stupid.