# Merchant Master — user reviews > 51 indexed App Store user reviews of Merchant Master by HaoPlay Limited, rated 4.63/5 from 1,914 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merchant-master/id1561951410/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merchant-master/id1561951410.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,555 · 4★ 198 · 3★ 64 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 84 ## What do users think of Merchant Master? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Simple and fun to play - 🎁 Lots of freebies in the game - 🎨 Good graphics and animations **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and issues with the game - 💰 Pay-to-win model and lack of content for free players - 🤖 Dominated by Russian players, making it hard to communicate **Commonly reported bugs** - Issues with adding money and credits in the game - Sudden game crashes and server connection problems - Lost progress and money due to server issues **Most requested features** - Add ability for players to marry and interact with each other - Implement gift giving between players - Provide a comprehensive game guide and tutorial ## Newest reviews (16 of 51) ### 3/5 — Good game but… *2022-02-07, version 1.0.27* Is there no other way to get worker recruitment cards? If not can you add something like a shop or missions to get more. I can’t move onto the next mission due to lack of workers. I’ll add 5 stars once this problem is fix. It’ll be sad to drop this game because I really do enjoy this game. ### 3/5 — 😍👾.😮‍💨⛏🧬🛏♨️/😖❤️‍🔥. *2022-01-26, version 1.0.27* I love this game. But we should be able to choose what gender our characters sleep/date with. ### 2/5 — Horrible experience *2021-12-24, version 1.0.23* 1: Multi high vip players lose ingots. Customer service doesn’t provide any help. 2: App has serious bug: it accidentally enabled infinite resources redeem in a certain time which damage the paid player. In order to fix the issue, the game was shut down over 10 hours but didn’t correct the mistake. No compensation for paid players. So advice is: don’t put money in this game. It’s developers are technically retarded. ### 1/5 — Updates *2021-12-22, version 1.0.23* New update makes it impossible to achieve success if you are a free player. A lot of people have already donated , but developers want more money. There is no respect for old players. Return the game before update , because now it deserves only 1 stat. ### 1/5 — Used to be my favorite game *2021-12-18, version 1.0.23* New update made it impossible to advance as a free to play player, I hope they can salvage it and I can rewrite this review and give it the stars it deserves. ### 1/5 — Bad update *2021-12-18, version 1.0.23* This game is honestly great, but the devs keep making updates that reduce the earning of players while making events that solely rely on pay-to-win. In other words, you must pay in order to even participate in events. This is a bad business model and I cannot support them until they reverse this update. ### 1/5 — Now trash. *2021-12-17, version 1.0.23* I liked the simplicity. Now they’re changing it to get more money out of you by making it harder to play. Change it back. ### 1/5 — Worthless update *2021-12-17, version 1.0.23* The most recent update absolutely ruined the game for f2p users in the way they changed the economy and unlocks, plus adding progressive cost increases to every item. ### 3/5 — Enjoyable casual game *2021-12-17, version 1.0.23* The game is enjoyable. The main issues are the English language translation, and the explanations for the various stats. ### 2/5 — Pay to Win *2021-12-15, version 1.0.21* This game, while addicting and very very casual, is very simple and lackluster. Content is very dry and repetitive and there is no skill whatsoever. Also You will never catch up to the top players on the ladder. Once you reach a certain point in the game, there's nothing left to do. And the events are all pay to win. Almost every aspect of the game is pay to win. You can sink a year's worth of time as a free to play, but a new player can pay $200 and catch up instantly where you are. And even if you spend money, you will never catch up on the leaderboards, because they've already spent thousands on this game. This is for one server. My server's #1 is $50M in revenue. The global leaderboard is $3B. As a free to play, you earn maybe $1M per day at a certain point. You can picture how much they've spent. This game will be gated by inapp purchases, so save your time. Even if you want to spend money, it's really not worth it. Overall, a well-made game but money is more important. ### 1/5 — Leaving Crappy guilds/events *2021-12-10, version 1.0.20* I have been trying to leave my crappy dead guild for 5 days but I couldn’t because of a “guild event” I got on at server reset to finally leave and go join a good guild but now I cannot leave for 3 days because of another event. I love the game and I’ve spent a good bit of money on the game. I planned on getting to a higher VIP level but that will be a LARGE no if I cannot get out of my guild. Please assist and I will change review Server 75 Id: 75010537 ### 1/5 — A SCAM! *2021-12-07, version 1.0.20* I paid $30 to unlock a feature of the game that works perfectly fine for everyone else who has paid for it and not for me. I emailed customer service with proof that it isn’t working properly and no one has messaged me with any solutions in 3 days! They took my money and refuse to provide the service I paid for OR a refund! Do not give them your money. My ID # is 73004692 and my server is Scandium if anyone would like to actually fix this for me. ### 1/5 — Customer service never reply and they don’t handle about the bugs *2021-10-30, version 1.0.18* I tried to contact customer service to report the my revenue number didn’t show on the event scoreboard, they didn’t fix and never reply my question. ### 3/5 — Help *2021-10-29, version 1.0.18* I love the game in basically every aspect, but it would be great if when you click on something that uses an item as payment and you don’t have the items, that a pop up appears and it can direct you to a place to get the items. I want twins but I don’t know where to get the rose, when I click it it just says insufficient items. Do I have to buy it with money somewhere or something? I’m beginning to believe it doesn’t exist. If something is done about this I’ll change my review to 5 stars ### 4/5 — Needs a guide *2021-10-25, version 1.0.18* GIVE ME A GUIDE! It takes a while to figure everything out and lots of the game instructions are super vague. The game is fun! It’s definitely easier if you pay, but you can work your way up without it as well. Also, the dating scenes go away after you level up, so that irrelevant. The biggest issue for me is that it’s pretty much all Russians on my server and hardly anyone speaks English! ### 4/5 — More Stickers *2021-10-21, version 1.0.18* Your lack of stickers is making you lose 1 star from me. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Parameter error *2022-08-08, version 1.0.29* Can’t use items from inventory. And the problem still happening across all servers. Is the problem so hard to solve? ### 1/5 — Full of Russians *2022-08-03, version 1.0.29* Literally only Russian people play this game ### 1/5 — Lost out on all progress and money *2022-04-12, version 1.0.27* I lost out to all my progress and money I put into the game because a server is crowded and won’t let me back in this is why I wait to give reviews ..reached out to no avail. ### 1/5 — 垃圾游戏 *2022-02-26, version 1.0.27* 垃圾游戏登陆都有bug导致登陆不了，一顿垃圾还有没好意思卖99.99刀？哪里来的勇气？ ### 1/5 — Couldn’t open the game *2022-02-26, version 1.0.27* We have been trying to login the game for the last 10 hours but couldn’t get past the “haven’t seen the master for…” Are the devs even aware of this issue? The first update made me want to quit but still gave it another chance because I’ve met a lot of great people in the game. But the never ending bugs and issues make me want to stop playing altogether. ### 1/5 — 游戏卡bug，游戏进不去 *2022-02-25, version 1.0.27* 游戏卡在来钱啦！在界面 进不去游戏， 7个小时过去 还是进不去游戏 ### 1/5 — No male beloved *2022-01-27, version 1.0.27* They only allow you to date very provocative scantily dressed large breast clearly objectified women. Even if your character is a woman. So you can either be a male character who objectifies multiple women or an objectified female character that somehow has children with other female characters in an ancient Asian community. It is extremely clear to me that men created this game. ### 1/5 — Upset *2021-12-28, version 1.0.24* I like the idea of the game and had enjoyed a lot in the beginning. However the game developer did a very bad job to maintain the customer satisfaction and there are serious bugs every time they updated the server. I sent my concerns or issues to the customer service but never got response or settled. I’m so disappointed and I’m not going to invest money to this game anymore! ### 1/5 — The recent update is a scam *2021-12-27, version 1.0.23* Worst update ever ### 1/5 — Re : SCAM *2021-12-27, version 1.0.23* This is scam company . Never reply complaint. Always get bugs and waste my material. I never see anyone reply with mistake or bug . Do not waste your money , now I am applying all my money back since this is shell company and always get bugs . Your money always wasted. So I reporting they are SCAM company . Take your money and lower your point ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome game👍🏻 *2023-07-13* It’s simple and fun to play, I like it very much! I want to suggest if you guys could program players marrying each other? I feel like it would be fun and players would interact with each other more to find a good partner to play with and could help each others revenue go up. Also as well as giving gifts to other players like friends. Thank you for creating this game 🙇🏻‍♀️ ### 5/5 — Game Guide Please *2021-12-06, version 1.0.20* I’m addicted to this game!!! BUT, it’s extremely frustrating that there is no game guide or way to ask a question when you need help. For example: I have 12 Red Silk in my inventory. When you click on it it says “ use it to exchange Jhang Hongfu or upgrade Jhang Hongfu’s halo skills” Who is Jhang Hongfu, what are halo skills? You have to collect 20 “pieces” of silk that you can craft to get 1 red silk. You have to do the same thing with talent vouchers and treasury blueprints that are obviously extremely helpful to your game. I feel like if it’s important enough that I have to collect 20 of them to get 1, it must be important but there’s absolutely no explanation in regards to it. ### 5/5 — honestly the ad said it all *2021-10-01, version 1.0.18* it a decent game well not decent by looking at the revoew but yeah its good would recomenned i dont usual play games like this but this is a execption ### 5/5 — Surprisingly Great *2021-08-24, version 1.0.17* This is honestly a very broad game with adaptability to both super casual play and 2-3 hour “benders,” both accessible completely without ads and without needing to spend real money. I’ve done pretty well for my first few days of playing and the opportunities for advancement in a number of different directions are varied. The tutorial is strong and the graphics are nice. The dating scenes are very uh… suggestive… and as others have mentioned it would be nice to be able to skip these before reaching level 9 or whatever. I love the different events and the opportunities to quickly build up a broad library of the different items and currencies. Just by playing rather a lot in my first week I was able to earn truly high quality talents, beloveds and spirit animals. All without paying a penny. Oh, and the person who said the first word problem is wrong is also wrong. You do end up losing $130 because you discounted the shoes $15 each to begin with. It wasn’t that you were selling them for $45 - they Cost you $45. ### 5/5 — 挺好玩的 *2021-08-10, version 1.0.17* 但是为什么没有有男性佳人，这游戏是不需要女性玩家吗 ### 5/5 — Fun *2021-08-09, version 1.0.16* Addictive game, I have been playing for two weeks now and am level 16 without having to make any purchases. Once you hit a certain level you are able to skip the dating scenes lol. Please keep this game around, I have fun with it. The “talk of selling children” is people in chat saying that their children IN GAME are going for marriage and the “price” is the revenue the children bring in. Not anything else ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2021-08-04, version 1.0.15* Just what I was hoping/looking for in such games! Love it! Excellent tutorial. Good graphics (as described). Many opportunities to advance in game. Ample, “free” earned rewards. Nice prices on packages for those that want to buy. You CAN turn the graphics off in “Date” by selecting “Date All” at bottom. All around, this is an excellent game! ### 5/5 — 好玩 *2021-07-12, version 1.0.12* 动画做得不错。可惜 宠信CG 全是一个画面。败笔 ### 4/5 — Bug Problem or Doesn’t have any new servers?? *2022-08-07, version 1.0.29* First of all, I want to say this game is good and I am really enjoying myself playing with it. Second, there are a lot of freebies in game which I think is great. Like I never seen so many freebies in every event of the game! But every since I started to play the game, I think I’ve been experiencing bug in the system. Like all of a sudden it stopped adding money every time I tap the treasury building or sometimes the credits won’t appear every time I was in auto tap in the stages section. Or suddenly the game stops and I don’t know why or what happened. I don’t know if it is really a bug in the system or recently my server got full. And if it was a bug problem, I hope you can fix this immediately. Because it was ruining my fun in the game. And if it was the lack of servers in the game. I hope in the future you’ll add more, so that everyone can play without any problems. Thank you!! ### 4/5 — Good *2021-11-08, version 1.0.20* Game is good but everyone speaks Russian and I can’t communicate well. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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