Epic
Good
SUPER FUN
Eh
Good but very flawed
Fair enough, but this is pretty egregious. Not to mention that the crates almost never produce any of the player cards you need to upgrade your team after you reach a mid-tier level. Top-tier player cards require a combination of cash and grinding and the game devolves into a slog where you can’t even just fire up a game and enjoy without constantly feeding it.
Free to play games all need these strategies to stay alive and I’m willing to drop a few bucks here and there, but Rivals is pretty terrible in how incredibly unlikely you’ll get a decent star player and how it’s impossible to enjoy if you don’t want to constantly feed the slot machine. I fear that this game will eventually have a huge player exodus if they don’t ease up on the cash grab aspects.
