I played this game a ton when it first came out, I have been a long time fan of the MH series and have a lot of love for this, and I feel like I have given this game to many chances to just be a better game, a lot of the faults at launch I ignored because I figured surely they would get better but it feels like things are sliding in the opposite direction, niantic has made over 20,000,000$ from a game they already had the skeleton for from pogo, and then borrowed assets from world. So why on earth do they feel the need to push so many microtransactions and make such a counter intuitive system, I think the shop needs a giant overhaul, and a more entertaining/fun gameplay loop that rewards actual skill instead of bigger numbers, I made it to 9* monsters before I realized I had stopped having fun a while ago, it just makes me sad to see the state of this game when I know it could be so much better. This is just me pouting and complaining, I deleted the game and I’m going to just wait and see if things change but my hope is gone):