LightStorm wrote:

Holy cry me a river

Guys, the game is a business... it needs to make money or you won't have f-all to bitch about playing

The Whales you seem to want to complain about buying extra stones, extra runes... extra gems... what ever... they provide the company owners with the resources they need to develop the game and keep it fresh and interesting. To those saying the game is a sell out, and you have put your account up for sale... WOW.

Why do you care is someone buys there way to super hero status? I don't, I enjoy the game and still only buy the monthly card. It's all i need to enjoy the game, why do you have to be the best player on the field and not need to spend a dime on it for the game to be worth anything in your books?

Jeepio wrote:

Super hero status is also Super bully status... I guess you like Farmville? Because if you dare attack a chinese player, the whales will see to it you are not safe in any city and you can never attack anymore, because they will revenge attack you (and/or your house) into oblivion... If that is your definition of enjoyment, so be it.

Sargon wrote:

You're just wrong. None of the most successful games as of this very minute are pay to cheat. Virtually all of them are extremely good games running on an F2P model with full access to the content, but you can spend money to get cosmetics. NONE of them give you a massive and unfair advantage. This game HAD the potential to join that crowd, but they chose to sell out for some quick cash. People are mad because they want to game to survive and remain relatively fair for most players, but rune stones enabled whales to get close to 200% buffs to army and heros if they spend the money.

When exactly is the last time that you have had a whale ram his credit card down your entire kingdoms throat and destroy every single city just to be a dick?

Point is - pay to cheat hurts the business because people run away from it like the plague. A lot of the people on here are passionate about the game and want to see it succeed, and its clear that the devs are throwing it away.

Jeepio wrote:

Super hero status is also Super bully status... I guess you like Farmville? Because if you dare attack a chinese player, the whales will see to it you are not safe in any city and you can never attack anymore, because they will revenge attack you (and/or your house) into oblivion... If that is your definition of enjoyment, so be it.

LightStorm wrote:

Why do you want another game that's just like 'everyone else' ... I used to play the bigger MMO's... EQ, EQ2, WoW... Players where constantly screaming balance, balance, balance.... and it eventually felt like tic tac toe. Why would I care to play X or O when they are so perfectly balanced with one another. Let the Scales Tip one way or the other... see if the players can self motivate to find other ways to jump on the other side. We have whales on all sides boasting about how much money they spent last week... That's not my game, but I'm glad to see the support going towards a game I also love to play. And as I said before, I play in the realms of deals and planning. You would be surprised how far a 'attack towers only' deal can go... even with the biggest whales there are

Cheers

Sargon wrote:

if you want to play me in a round of tic tac toe where we can pay money to take three turns in a row, be my guest.

Sargon wrote:

LightStorm wrote:

Why do you want another game that's just like 'everyone else' ... I used to play the bigger MMO's... EQ, EQ2, WoW... Players where constantly screaming balance, balance, balance.... and it eventually felt like tic tac toe. Why would I care to play X or O when they are so perfectly balanced with one another. Let the Scales Tip one way or the other... see if the players can self motivate to find other ways to jump on the other side. We have whales on all sides boasting about how much money they spent last week... That's not my game, but I'm glad to see the support going towards a game I also love to play. And as I said before, I play in the realms of deals and planning. You would be surprised how far a 'attack towers only' deal can go... even with the biggest whales there are

Cheers

Not seeing your point here. Every single game that you listed is infinitely more successful than this game, and none of them let you spend tens of thousands of dollars to be an invincible god. Tic tac toe is a mathematical stalemate due to its simplicity, but if you want to play me in a round of tic tac toe where we can pay money to take three turns in a row, be my guest.

The difference between players should be strategy and time spent on the game. Not money spent. If players want to spend money to save time, that is fine, but everybody else should be able to spend time (grind honor or dungeons) to achieve the same results as spending cash. Currently, hero stats, hero exp, and rune stones are all gated by daily respawns, and only accelerated by cash. We could extend that to virtually every element of this game, but those 3 are the most impactful.