Monster Hunter Now Carnival Interview: Niantic Talks Massive Events and Evolution of AR Games

I’ve been playing this for the past couple of weeks as an excuse to walk around, and the base game is actually very fun.

But the pricing of items is ridiculous. 180 gems for a paintball which marks a monster for later but grants you only ONE chance of killing it? (if you mess up and die and retire or if the timer runs out, the monster disappears from your list). 60 gems for ONE potion which only recovers 50HP?

Drop rates are also terrible. Killing 5 star monsters shouldn’t keep giving me only 1-star drops. I’d rather they always give me a 5 star drop and an upgrade cost 100 items, than the upgrade costing me 3 items but having no way of knowing if I’ll have to kill 300 monsters to get those items to finally drop. But I mean, mobile games do need to have those gambling tricks to make people keep playing, right?