Is Atlas Earth Legit?

It Atlas Earth Worth It?

So, you were playing one of your favourite games on the Play Store and you saw an ad for Atlas Earth. Your initial thoughts about the game are likely “is this Atlas Earth Legit?”. The game promotes being a cross between Pokemon Go and Monopoly which seems like a crazy fun concept. Like me you’ve probably downloaded dozens of these “get rich quick” apps and left massively disappointed. But, like most, we continue to download the next new one hoping it will be legit this time.

Atlas Earth is a whole new breed of scam. It’s honestly scary how much of a scam it is. So, let me give you my little backstory about exploring the game first.

I play a fun wrestling game where you can optionally watch ads if you want to gain an edge on the game. I’m honestly not so sure if I want to continue playing it or not. Watching a 30 second ad every 10 minutes can not only be annoying but I worry about the damage it’s doing to my brain. The damage I’m referring to is being fed highly manipulative marketing tactics to get me to spend money regardless of if I think I’m in control.

Moving on, I saw at ad for Atlas Earth dozens of times. I remember actually downloading it once a few years ago and playing it for like 5 minutes being quickly disappointed. But, I figured what the hell and decided to try it out again after seeing the ad for it about 30 times.

See what I mean? Even though I was previously disappointed in this app I disregarded that because the marketing they use is so sneaky.

So, after downloading it I tried to recover my old account hoping I’d have 1 extra piece of land to earn me rent. No luck, for some reason my account must have been deleted from inactivity or they just felt like wiping the servers like these apps have been known to do sending everyones’ built up earnings to the abyss.

I figured I’d actually give it a try this time. The first thing the game does is give you 100 Atlas Bucks to buy your first plot of land. I got excited to work towards buying the 12 or so plots it took to make up my apartment complex. I got lucky and got a rare plot of land. I then threw on my shoes and went on the hunt. I could already see one diamond from my apartment so I figured they would be close enough by. After about 7 minutes down the street I was able to collect 3 diamonds, so I headed back home. These diamonds are used to spin a prize wheel where you “can” win 50 Atlas Bucks but will most likely win 1, 6, and 20 like I did. One of the prizes just gave you back a diamond which lets you spin again. Like how useless is that?

After I got home I started clicking around in the game. I noticed you can collect a daily login reward if you have 3 plots of land. Now I had my goal! It was now my mission to collect enough Atlas Bucks for 2 more plots of land on top of the free one you get off the bat.

So, I was sitting at 27 AB as I’ll refer to them going forward and felt stuck. I remember reading the in game reviews that there was an arcade you can play to earn some AB. It took me a while to find it, a few minutes or so. It ended up being in the shop of all places which kind of makes sense because that’s where you get AB. I just figured it would have been in it’s own specific tab.

So, now that I discovered the arcade it was time to earn some AB. Like most of these scam apps you have to download and play other apps to send points back to the first app. Of course the advertised points per minute was misleading as well. It claims you earn either 1 or 2 AB per minute right below each game in the arcade tab.

I started playing the first game and got sucked right in. The games they have you play are very in dopamine release with very little actual gameplay. About 30 minutes past before I noticed I didn’t get any notifications for earning some AB. So, I opened back up Atlas Earth which I still had running in the background to be safe in case it needed to to earn points.

ARRRGG! No fucking points! I was about to leave an angry review on the app and call it quits. But, as I calmed I remembered the classic “just reboot it” advise. So, I rebooted it and everything was good! I started to get many notifications through the game of the AB I earned. But, I only clicked through about 7 screens of 2 AB each, what gives? I thought that app must be broken so I simply downloaded a second app.

After about 30 more minutes of playing the next game and reloading Atlas Earth this time the same thing happened, only 7 screens of 2 AB each. I thought, this has to be wrong. So, I poked around a bit and found the point spread for each app. This goes back to the VERY misleading 1 or 2 AB per minute claim they have in bold text beside each game.

The truth what that you only got rewarded after 1 minute 2 times. Then the required time got higher and higher for you to earn a stinkin’ AB! But, by this time I had surpassed 100 AB and could buy my next plot of land so I was happy. I got real lucky and my 2nd land turned out to be LEGENDARY! There’s only like a 12% chance of that happening or something. Only epic was above that at 5%.

It was now 2:30am well past my typical bedtime of midnight so I called it quit for the night. I was happy! I secured my second piece of land. I was excited to start the following day soon so I could work towards my 3rd plot of land.

To my surprise I actually awoke at 6:30am after only 4 hours of sleep. I tend to sleep a lot due to lack of purpose so the fact that I had a mission now allowed me to hop out of bed. I actually collected 1 extra diamond the day before as it was quite close by from my journey the day before. So, I spun the wheel and won an entire single AB. With a heavy “oh well” sigh I moved onto the games to earn another 100 AB.

It took slightly longer this time because I was starting from 1 AB instead of 27 like the day before. But! I eventually secured another 100 and bought my 3rd plot of land. I was euphoric by this point. “Oh golly gee! I can finally start building up a portfolio of virtual land and maybe a year from now start earning a small sum from it every month".”

Boyyy was I met with a rude awakening. As I awed at my 3 plots of land as I looked at the climbing dollar amount, or should I say climbing fractional penny amount. I noticed there were a hell of a lot of zeroes behind the fraction of a penny. So I figured, I’ll calculate how much this earns per hour. Wow! Jebus Christ! Get ready for the big kohuna here! What you’re about to read separates Atlas Earth from all of these other scam money apps to an UNGODLY level.

You wanna know how long it takes to earn just ONE SINGLE CENT? Take a guess, I’ll wait! You’ve played these games before so you know it can be quite slow. What do you say? 1 second? 10 seconds? Maybe 1 entire minute if it’s really pathetic?

NO NO NO and NO! Get ready…it takes roughly SIX POINT THREE YEARS to earn a FUCKING SINGLE CENT! ISN’T THAT FUCKING INSANE? Over 6 goddamn years to earn a fucking penny?

This was a new level of snake. The ads you watch every minute or so earn them about 4 cents so you can see what they’re doing is EXTREMELY unethical and fraudulent BEYOND sweatshops in China. These people should be fucking shot!

Anyways, there you have it! I’ve been wanting to start blogging again for years and could just never think of a good enough topic. Well, I’ve been through the ringer enough times from these apps. And with this disgusting app being as bad as it was I just had to write something.

So, I’m making it my mission, a real mission unlike gaining 3 plots of meaningless digital land, to help save people from these types of scam apps. There’s really no real earn money apps out there, there just isn’t. You gotta think about the value you’re adding to the marketplace. Something that a 3 year old could do from just clicking buttons is in fact worth at best pennies an hour.

There are a handful of apps that do pay an ENTIRE DOLLAR an hour on average. I will be covering these in the future. At least with those you’re not losing money because of the long-term damage these games are doing to your cellphones’ battery.

Stay tuned for future posts! If you’d like, feel free to subscribe to get notified of future posts as it’s completely free. And, if you feel I’ve saved you a few bucks from not wasting your time, maybe drop an $8 CAD/month premium subscription. Enjoy your day!