Game has potential to be great, but it’s pay to win.

This game is great. The farming and leveling up aspects of the game are enjoyable and in depth. But this game critically needs some type of skill/strategy added to it so that it’s not just ‘the big guy wins’ each time. I’ve been playing for over a month now and have gotten on each day. Now that I am a regular player I am able to take down smaller enemies etc. But to dominate this game is simple: spend the most money or have the oldest account. This needs to be revised. There needs to be more interactive defense and attack mechanics so that defending and attacking players can still have a fighting chance to save some resources/damage/troops when invasions occur. There should also be more interactive alliances — making it so that established alliances between guilds are accepted and broken by only the rank 4’s and rank 5’s in a guild. When an alliance is active, no one in the guild can attack the opposing guild without a rank 4 or 5 player deactivating the alliance first. When an alliance is ended, the other guild should be warned by the system that it has been canceled and that enemy troops are approaching etc. (just a thought). But there needs to be more player involvement integrated into the game. (Allied guilds should also be able to rally troops together and take on monsters and dark-nests together.) All in all, I rate this game 3 stars. It’s got great potential, but for now it is still missing the mark.

If you don’t pay up you no point in playing

So yes I agree with most other people commenting here you have to pay big to have a shot at being a heavy contender in this game. To give you a reference point I’ve invested 200$ and approximately 2 hours per day for 2 months of my time and I have a level 24 castle and decent tier 3 troops. I’d say with the investment I’ve made I’m probably in the top 20 % of players if I had to guess based on what I see. I think to get to a level 25 castle and have decent tier 4 troops your talking either another 3 to 4 months of playing or paying another 50$ plus 1 more month of playing if I had to guess. To put things into perspective my “ might “ which is a strength system this game goes off of is 11 million. This “ might “ level represents the culmination of all your armies, building levels, resource gathering capabilities etc..combined to spit out a might number. I run into people regularly with over 100 million might that could literally kill me with the flick of a finger and I’m pretty strong. So I guess what I’m getting at is yes the game is fun but if you want to be at a competitive level and actually have fun playing... you’re looking at spending at least 250$ to 300$ and a few months to get to that level. I’d say if I spent zero money it would of took me 2 years to get where I’m at now.. at least 2 years. So either be prepared to spend money or be prepared for the long haul just know what your getting your self into.

I waited 3 weeks before writing a review...

This game is very addictive! However, the more and more I’ve played these past weeks and crunched numbers, I’m started to believe you have to be a millionaire to play and win. But now... with each update... you’ve got to have an bottomless money pit. My husband and I both play this game. And if any of the developers are listening... please please really listen. In my guild there are several kids. Teenage kids from developing countries who have no business spending their money on this game. However, just a chance to escape reality and a way to just be a kid, they’ve latched onto this game. I continue to pay and play this game in order to protect these kids from big bad cyber bully billionaires who have nothing better to do than destroy the financial investment (fortune to these kids... hell, fortune to me too) these kids have made. However, when our kingdom opens up... I have no idea what I can do any longer. I have children myself. And I would never ever let them play this game or anything similar. It’s such an amazing game and I was very impressed with the translation tool. It breaks many many language barriers. It allows people from all over the world who are all different nationalities to play together as a team with no racism. This game has the potential to be something super positive in the world. And it’s a shame that it’s pushed further and further into an cyber casino.

Pay To Win...

I can sum this game up real quick for you. The concept and mechanics of the game are decent. The falloff starts with the money problem. They call this game a “strategy” game. It’s about as far from that as possible. In fact there really is no strategy. It’s whoever has the bigger army wins. Usually this means whoever has paid more money because advancing is painful and slow. To make matters worse, advancing becomes almost impossible due to the “pay to win” players raiding your village as much as 4 times a day sucking every resource till it’s dry. Meanwhile you can do nothing but watch your village be sucked dry of everything because unlike most games with a ranking system. A level 60 in this game with thousands of dollars invested can attack a level 10 player and still earn just as much off the attack as any other player. They DO NOT care about the non pay to win players nor those just starting the game. Prime example of game Devs only caring about money. There is ZERO strategy. I am attacked daily by people 30 levels higher with as much as 100 times the troops. Not only do they have more troops but they are higher level. I sometimes kill as little as 50 of their 200K troops because the game is so unbalanced. So if you want your money to go into a greed app go for it. But know there is no such thing as care or empathy to new and average players. Just don’t even bother, this game isn’t even worth burning the occasion 2 min of free time you have.

False Advertisements/ No interactive battles.

Game advertises large-scale interactive battle screens. I have played for nearly 2 years, this screen does not exist. No troop-based battle is interactive. Nothing where you can change a formation in real-time. This is the reason I installed the game, I went looking for this screen for weeks, but stayed for specific people’s help. I had forgotten the ad that pulled me in, but I have rediscovered it. The game continues to advertise on Twitter with large scale, point-and-click “formation deployments”, where you can interact in real-time with how effective your “tower defense” style effort can be. This entire workflow does not exist. None of it. You can send troops, but you’ll get a battle report after, and a generic video of “what happened”. You have no control mid-battle. Battles are instant, once they occur. You either win, or you lose. Its over. Thats it. This false advertising is misleading at least, definitely deceptive, and potentially criminal based on the country of the governing body responsible for evaluating where this game is available. This is beyond all the pay-to-win incentives for being an initially free-to-play game, and also ignoring their inaction towards banning large scale automation in the game. (Can you beat 2-3 guilds simultaneously deploying 10+ bots each against you? Can you beat “instant”? ) it’s officially listed as cheating, but selectively enforced. Chinese and Russian guilds are immune from punishment.

This game is fun but lopsided

This game is okay. You have the opportunity to meet new people and strategize. The biggest problem in my opinion is the fact that the game is CRAZY lopsided. A bunch of extremely powerful players who obviously paid their way to the top. There really is no way to get around it. It makes the game more stressful than fun, and considering the fact that the game is literally only determined by the person who put in the most money, I wouldn’t play unless you have pretty deep pockets. It would benefit the game if there was some sort of trap system or something that allows players who aren’t made of money to have a fighting chance. Maybe some type of trap that at least deters powerful players from wasting your money, which might actually make it slightly more strategic. Every time you start to progress some OP player comes and undoes everything you accomplished the last few days which is infuriating and makes me wanna stop playing all together again. Literally everything else is great, even support will help you with most issue within their control, and they are very patient and kind. However everything else is over shadowed by the fact that the game is almost unplayable without investing hundreds and even thousands of dollars. I get it you gotta make a profit, but with everything going on, not too many people have that type of money to invest in an app that is supposed to be fun.

Really?

I used ALL my x1 and x2 travel speed ups for the Lords Cup, and someone else made it exactly the same time as mine, and you gave it to them! There should be a limit on how many times a player can hit it, because the same person was spamming it so nobody else could hit it! I had so many speed ups saved up, I used all of my training speed ups for troops for the Lords Cup, and I could’ve used those speed boosts for better things! This was the first time I was able to participate in the Lords Cup, and now I have no interest of ever participating again. Now I have no training speed ups, no travel boosts, and way too many t1! I put up 8 hour shields and it deactivates after 7 hours. Not 7 hours and 59 minutes, exactly 7 hours. When I’m asleep. The research times are ridiculous. 30, 40 days?! It’s impossible for F2P to grow with all the huge, 1 billion might P2P players burning you all the time! And the shop, jeez! $100 for a bunch of crap? What happened to the .99 cent packages? It’s all 1.99 now! What’s the point of notifications? I didn’t even get a notification that I was scouted, and I only got a notification that I was being attacked when the attacker reached my turf! Notifications are useless! I put on a 24 hr shield at 6 pm, it’s supposed to go to 6 pm the next day. Nope! It ended at 1 pm! It’s been 13 hours since I put it up. It says it had 7 hours left, when instead it should be at 11 hours! You need some maintenance to do!

Their flaws screw over players

The emergency maintenance that took place on 11/29 prevented me from logging on to reset my 7 day shield. The maintenance ended around midnight for me and the maintenance shield expired at 4am, both times that are in the middle of the night and completely unacceptable to ask a player to stay awake until. I’ve messaged IGG 3 times to get my troops, leader, and resources restored and each of their replies has completely glossed over it. They’ve just repeated that they have out maintenance gifts, but 600 gems and some speed ups aren’t equal to 30million+ might in troops. I’m less than a year into my computer science degree and know that bugs happen, but they should not significantly impact the end users, and if so, from a customer service standpoint, the impact should be corrected. I’ve spent way too much money on this game to not feel screwed by IGG for how they’re handling this. It’s ridiculous that they can just declare maintenance, lock you out for however long they’d like, but then make you deal with whatever happens. It’s also ridiculous that they won’t restore things back when it’s completely free for them. I never asked for a refund on anything, just that they give me back what I had before I was locked out. I know they have the capability too, it’s been done for several people I know before. So why they won’t is extremely hard to understand.

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