Am I a player (of games)?

When I say game player. I don't mean slick femme fatale minxy, juggling dozens of guys on the go. I mean doing some stress busting while messing around with silly insignificant games on my phone.

I'm currently trying out Mistplay and Appstation on my Samsung phone. I think they are both just for Android users. As long as I am horsing around anyway, why not make some spare cash?

I just downloaded AppStation and as a welcome bonus I got 5,555 coins which is nice but I rushed to the cashout page to see how the rates were and to afford a £10 Paypal or Amazon voucher I need to earn 119,281 coins. Yowswer :o

Not looking so generous now is it? There is a long list of free and paid actions to acquire coinage. From 1,000ish to 92,000ish coins.

There is a lot of *new users only* in the small print. How do older users compete? What if they have completed all the required options and still can't cashout?

Another little note is that there is a time limit to finish the tasks. A few say, seven days and some say 14. Not good if you are more of a leisure gamer.

I'm not sure I can be bothered with this, compared to Mistplay. They gave me 200 complimentary units which is their currency and I need 2,100 for a £5 Amazon or 4,200 for a £10 Amazon card.

There are other rewards like John Lewis, Visa and Mastercard but I tend to stick with the Paypal and Amazon versatile options.

I installed Mistplay on New Years Eve and have tried a few games. Scrabble Go is a new favourite but each reward or action plays an advert unless you are willing to pay £4.49 a month to partially remove them.

I said partially because if you want the bonus items, you still have to watch a thirty second advert to receive them. Misleading a bit.

I've taken the seven day trial just for a bit of peace and so far my balance is 1,845. I would prefer a one off fee, if it was reasonable and included the removal of all adverts, even those to obtain game boosters or perks.

I've not tried cashing out so I don't know how smooth the process is. It can take up to 48 hours to receive it according to the blurb.

I'll update this post when I have or if I run into any difficulties. I'm also playing Coin Master which is more of a dull repetitive slot game where you build and create villages and plunder others.

It has the highest payout of coins at 4 and I just play every now and then to rise up the ranks and earn more. There are others to choose from and in the beginning it is easier to earn coins.

The negative aspects are that even though they are monitoring my usage. It is not accurately accounted for in the tally.

Also on my older phone, Coin Master wrecked the system and made it unstable. I had to quickly uninstall it. There are multiple times when it says, there's an error and you need to go back and click through from Mistplay to continue collecting rewards.

Way too many obtrusive adverts. Yes I realise they need to make money, while giving so much of it away but many times. Clicking off the advert cannot be done and it just links you to Google Playstore.

These are just my findings and your experiences might be different. One last tip and then I am off to try and get some sleep as I am returning home tomorrow.

If you have multiple devices as I have, These games are going to kill the battery. Load them up on your different phones and log in with Facebook and that way all the progress is saved.

Plus they will give you added extras. I downloaded Solitaire Grand Harvest and it's tripeaks which isn't my favourite and you also use your balance to play each round and you quickly burn that out trying to finish up.

Not too keen but at least the coins are going up when hitting the milestones. I guess to make the most of it. Choose one favourite game to play as often as you can and then pick high ranking games to earn quicker.

*10/1/21 Update*

I just redeemed my 4,100 points for an £10 Amazon voucher. Not too bad at all. Woohoo I just received it via email on the 11/1 that was really fast :)

* 2/2/21 Update*

It seems like monthly I will be able to redeem if I play the games regularly because I have just exchanged another 4200 points for a £10 Amazon card. 

Apart from the onslaught of in-game popups, it's a really fun way to get vouchers.

*21/2/21 Update*

I applied for my third Amazon voucher by signing up to the newsletter as I just had to collect four measly points to get to 4300. 

Bit cheeky that the point redemption price keeps increasing but it's all free so I can't complain too much :D