Idle Cooking Tycoon - Tap Chef 4+

Great Game!

I have played a few similar games. It’s a slow game, not over night. They have rewards to completing levels or collecting. Only glitch is the Guitar doesn’t show on the conveyor belt. I have not spent more than $15 on the game and have done very well in a weeks time.

Suggestion for Game Makers. Give us the option to get rid of ads. I am getting a little burnt out on watching the same adds.

Ad Farm and Ridiculous Monetization

This game takes a total of over $40 dollars to get the upgrades you spend with pure money, with gems, it totals to OVER $400 DOLLARS.
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Math below:
So in the end, if you wanted to get certain upgrades with gems and not spending pure money, you will need to watch OVER 16 1/2 HOURS of ADVERTS if you manage to get 15 or above gems/video which range from 5-20. Three upgrades alone cost 10,000 gems each, totaling 30,000. And guess how much you can get for $100? No you can’t unlock all, you can get ONE of those upgrades. You get 14,000 gems.
So then you can spend another $50 to get 6,500 gems and unlock a second, but you still need to either watch 5 1/2 hours of videos or spend another $100 MINIMUM to skip becoming an ad farm for them. They treat us as livestock. If you want these upgrades alone, it is where I got the base value for advert time spent, you need to spend OVER 16 HOURS being these developer’s ad farms.

Conclusion:
This game is an absolute scummy way to monetize both adults and children alike with gem payments, increasing per upgrade to hide the exponential increase behind a mystery paywall, where they want you to spend your time generating revenue exclusively for them and removing from your fun by making ads and spending exorbitant amounts of money a necessity to progress after only a day of gameplay.

Challenges don’t work

After completing all the missions, I started working on the challenges, but the game doesn’t let you claim the reward once completing the challenge. I filled my chocolate pots to 10,000,000 on 2 different levels and neither allowed me to claim the reward. The second level I tried (choco-phone) I continued letting the pot fill up until I could no longer purchase upgrades of any type, which is more than 100 times the amount required for the challenge, and I was still not able to claim the reward. From what I’ve seen, many other people have had this issue for awhile and it still hasn’t been addressed.
Update: I emailed the developers back in July 2020 regarding the issue and they said they were fixing it. Clearly not a concern for them since it’s still not fixed and users have been reporting the problem for at least 2 years.

Developer Response ,

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