Great city-building game, but ...

I love Dreamworks Dragons IP, and my kids are huge fans too. I also like city-building games to a point (in-app purchases for consumables are the swindlers way into your pocket), but there are some game-breaking bugs in this one.

GameCenter constantly disconnects and asks for my password, even when on a strong wi-fi connection. The game tries to railroad you into Facebook permissions, which I disabled, when it should treat GameCenter equally, maybe even preferably. It crashes frequently when it cant connect to outside media (e. g. mPoints, GameCenter).

Fix these problems and this would be a 5 star game.
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UPDATE: some of my original complaints have been resolved, though I eventually caved and connected thru Facebook anyway. It worked, at least, when I upgraded my phone and reloaded the game on the new one. Id still prefer GameCenter support and iCloud backup.

The updates are good and keep me interested. The biggest new flaw is the limited time collections tho. They should change it so that regardless of how you gain collectibles, you keep them if you dont spend them. Currently, collectibles for limited time promos disappear when the promo is over. Bad policy.

You get one more star for now. Keep working at it.
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UPDATE 2: The idea of the journeys is a fun aspect, but the implementation is horribly unbalanced. I get that they want to incite people to spend real money on IAPs, but the "randomness" of the wheel spin at the end seems to always land on the most worthless of the 3 prizes making time spent on the journey a complete waste. Outside of the quests requiring completing journeys, I wont waste my dragons time. -1 star until you make it fun again.

noothernicknameavailable about Dragons: Rise of Berk, v1.8.12