Addicting but Aggravating

The game gets exponentially harder as you go, requiring exponentially more resources to upgrade and exponentially more time to upgrade. I think right now I am looking at 4 days of gathering resources just to upgrade one of my four farms. Thats if I actually get on every 8 hours to harvest resources. That also means I am unable to upgrade anything else within that time. Im not even halfway done with the game. If you want to complete the game, you are almost forced to spend money on micro-transactions. The rarity of items goes Junk (gray), Uncommon (beige), Rare (green), Epic (blue), and Legendary (gold). Survivors are the same way. I dont even bother with any survivors less than Epic because anything less than Epic is useless later in the game due to the games difficulty. Unfortunately the game is set up that you can recruit survivors by using phones which you get as random item drops. It takes 3-4 days to get 15 phones which is the amount that you need to recruit only the best survivors. Unfortunately 90-95% of the time you will get only rare survivors in a system where you should be getting only epics and legendarys. On top of that you have to be lucky enough to recruit the class that you want. I am sick and tired of getting rare survivors because I can barely progress without epics and legendarys. Overall the game is addicting because of the loot system but ever so aggravating because of the difficulty, the time it takes to upgrade, and the survivor recruitment system. Dont have Internet? Sorry we cant let you play. The game is in a constant state of reloading every time I try to open it up as well. I actually have to restart my iPhone just to play the game. Occasionally I will get frame rate drops down to maybe 1-2 fps. And I know my phone is not the problem because I still have 15 GB of memory left. The game is poorly optimized and theres a lot that needs to be fixed. Would say the only truly positive thing about this game is the loot system so I will give this game a 2/5 stars.

RB McD about The Walking Dead No Man's Land