Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms

I've been playing for years, and I have spent hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars on this, so please trust what I say:

Do not touch this game.

I'm not the kind that plays "free" games on any platform. I figured that I wasn't stupid enough to get into a "freemium" game, and certainly not enough to spend money. I don't play Clash of Clans, gatcha games, or any other mobile trash. I don't have mental issues, and I do not have an addictive personality. I'm just a normal person who liked D&D, and in 2017, I figured I'd give this a shot. How naive I was.

Just like any other modern phone game, this isn't intended to be a good game, and it isn't fun.
The goal is to addict you because that is how it's engineered from the start. And that's the entire point - it is a business model, not a game. That means it's packed with extremely predatory monetisation practices that nickel and dime you at every opportunity.

Poor design-wise, it takes a ton of time to manually optimise your teams every time you interact with it (got a new champion? Time to rearrange EVERY team you have!), pins your CPU a great deal wasting loads of power, and multiple times a week I encountered glitches that caused severe progress loss.

Yes, those are all bad, but not as bad as the monetisation that was slowly added over time that really turned the game into a glorified store with progression attached.

They sell "DLC" which are continually expiring in the store forcing false scarcity, sell back-to-back battle passes, hawk cosmetic skins for some reason that nobody can or will ever see, have constant mini-events with their own expiring currencies that they want you to purchase, repeatedly shove purchases and upsells via chests at you - even directly after purchasing chests, and contains hard progress walls that you CAN NOT progress through without scads of grinding or paying through the nose. Like an idiot, I did both.

Oh. And they raised prices recently and shink-flated the number and quality of items you got. Just FYI.

I had to stop, re-evaluate things, and realise that I wasn't having fun and was just continuing out of habit all while flushing money down a toilet. I was addicted to this garbage and am ashamed.

This game is gross.
The company making it is gross.
These game practices are gross.

EDIT FOR COMMENTS: There's a deeply weird number of people saying I spent a ton of time to fake my hours & achievements for this free game simply so I could give it a bad review (?).

Release Date: My earliest DLC is the Celeste Starter Pack from December of 2017. The game was not released in 2020, despite what the release date says on Steam - it was in Early Access for quite a while. Look it up.

Hours: If you're wondering about the hours I sunk into this, you used to not make any progress unless the game was left on in the background (which I often did 24 / 7), hence the hour count.

Did I play?: Yes. I've never cheated play time or achievements. I also didn't buy a bunch of DLC so I could post a bad review. That would be insane.
Here's a picture of my DLC ownership screen: https://imgur.com/a/TgTHSD9

Any further salty lying / complaining because you want to waste time standing up for a predatory mobile game will be deleted.

I tried out this game a while ago, and didn't like it. However, I'm down voting for the shameless attempt to take advantage of my favourite bg3 character.

Nothing says a great game like exploiting the success of other games and characters you didn't create on your own.

As a person with a disability of not having use of my hands to play regular games I have found a passion in clicker and idle games, with that said, this is the best clicker game I have ever played and it is still in early access. It has already beaten the competition and has great potential for so much more! Thank you for the hours of entertainment I shall find myself lost in.