Upland - Buy and Sell Property

I had high hopes for this game, but it seems like there wasn’t much planning for the user’s experience. On Reddit, they said that the game was still in Open Beta as of 20 days ago. That’s fine and I’m pretty understanding if something isn’t working correctly. But if this is still in Open Beta, why make the user spend so much money for UPX when we’re testing the game out for you? The treasure hunt is a neat idea, but you spend a lot of UPX to participate without the guarantee of finding the treasure. How can engaging in this game be worthwhile if you have to pay to have fun? I don’t have a problem spending money on apps, but what am I getting out of this? What’s my ROI? And why is my Explorer out in the water? It’s not worth my money at this time.

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This looks like a great game. It has a great concept and the I can only imagine what I could do with more coins. You have to acquire a net worth of over 10,000 coins to move out of “Visitor” status and become an “Uplander”. But that’s the problem; you’re gifted 3,000 or 6,000 coin to start and the minimum property value is ~2,400 coin. If your property accrues 1-2 coin/day (what my two are) it will take MONTHS, to achieve the 10,000 coin level. Full game function (the marketplace where you can buy/sell/trade properties) doesn’t become available until you cross that threshold. At the moment, the only way to get more coins is the wait (an exorbitant amount of time, seriously, do the math at 2 coins per day, needing 2,600 more coins would take 3 and 1/2 YEARS), OR you can BUY coins. Great game, amazing process, bravo for putting together an awesome app where the blockchain integrates to real world assets. Needs serious attention to gameplay for beginners. Everything about this game screams “PLAY ME!!” But I can’t. I can’t buy anything else, I can’t sell or trade what I already have, I can’t fill any more collections to generate coins faster, I can’t do anything but collect a few coins a day but at this point, I’ll probably just come back weekly to renew my earning timeline or cut my time lost, delete the app and let what I have cycle back into the system for someone who wants to pay to play. Shame.

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The overall idea behind this game is a great one. You get enough UPX (the currency in the game to buy one property which is nice but the rest of the time you are waiting around for hours just to get a percentage of a single UPX as your dividends while each property costs at least 2500 UPX. Playing this game without paying to buy more UPX is literally impossible unless you want to sit around for months possibly even a year to get enough for just one more property and then you’re back in the same boat just getting a small percentage of the 2 properties you own. Absolutely terrible execution from the game player’s point of view but great execution on the game maker’s point of view because they know there are suckers out there willing to pay over and over again just to get in the leaderboards. Definitely not worth your time unless you have actual money to blow in real life and want to waste it on a game that you get no satisfaction in except for being the “best” in a game where it’s impossible for everyone else to even have a chance at even being decent.

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While I understand the game is in beta, I really don’t know what the purpose is other than to be a money grab for the devs. You can buy a property, and a tiny bit of virtual income trickles in, but if you want to not spend forever waiting for your tiny income to allow you to buy a second property, then you have to spend a lot of money to buy more in game currency. They talk a lot about how the in game currency (UPX) is based on a blockchain, but it’s not a real cryptocurrency because you cannot make a withdrawal or exchange it for goods or services. Literally all you can do is claim a pretend ownership or real world property on a digital map. Is this fun? It doesn’t seem fun.

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Really boring. There’s no entertainment value whatsoever in this “game.” All you do is collect rent on locations every few hours, and save up to get another location to keep repeating the cycle. You end up spending all your money to travel to the area you want to buy in, and if you don’t pay with real money it will take you several months to reach the real “uplander” status, based on the starting money, the login bonus you get the first week, and assuming you use your money to buy property right away instead of saving up- which you couldn’t do anyway without paying. Without this “uplander” status all of your progress is erased after 7 days of not logging on. Don’t waste your brainpower for a game with no entertainment value, attempting to create an altcoin with weak blockchain technology that inevitably will have no utility or monetary value. Total bust