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Rubies
ccknoeppel (US1)
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If you are rich, or have money to spare, then you can be at the top of the game in one day. Buy a hundred dollars worth of rubies at the right time and you can have 1000 OP troops at your castle. I know that this would probably never happen as the owners of this game want to make more money rather than make it fair, but decrease the amount of bonus troop chests and troops you get with them. It would make the game much for fair and based on skill, not just who has the biggest wallet.
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"If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all" Some famous person had to have quoted this sometime in the past.
100% true!
Just to clarify, the point at which it becomes unfair in your book is at about the $0.75 level?
the realerest.
Former whatever,
Proud nothing.
If I do something you need to know about, you'll know.
What is the face of a coward?
The back of his head as he runs from battle.
Someone in my alliance who recently joined is doing the exact same thing and attacking their alliance with thousands of ruby bought troops. I am thankful to him for doing so, but it is to easy to get these troops and people who don't buy rubies have no way of defending against these people.
PS: Thank you ED for attacking those guys
i would rather buy a nice car...
Yup, GGS want money from you. They are a business, that is what businesses do. And yup, the game is free, you don't have to spend a single penny on it. You may miss out on some premium features of the game but you are not required to spend anything to play. Y'know, in the same way you can test drive a car for free but can't then just keep it.
xD Most people won't even understand what you are saying. Like that one under your post. Definitly...
They dont grasp the clue what these kind a games are made for.
I was amazed by one the ruby offers I had to wade through today (yes, wade though GGS - logging on is becoming more tiresome) XP points for rubies? That really the way the game is going? Really?
No to tribute update.
everything is awesome
except gge with there recent greedy updates
but for gge everything is awesome, when there are more levels to a bakeryyy
everything is awesome when buildings need chracoal!
just my song about gge
i am Baron Keep excalibur in international cor ords: 921 697 i have 1864 honour im level 15 and im a proud member of 300 Order
yes there are players who can buy success, and there is also the need to make money (GGS being a business and all)
Agree thee is too much focus on rubys,
the following I think were poor ruby additions/advantages
S-comms/casts
speeding up building
being now able to purchase legendary XP pts
maybe a few others I am missing
but you know you can get between 1k and 5k ruby a week from Rb's and Sand/Ice/Fire towers depending on effort
The problem is when you have customers throwing money at ya, any business is likely to go for the safe bucks and basically try and keep the biggest payers happy
Its hard to strike a balance so they are retaining non ruby players and also allowing the smaller spenders to compete to some extent with the big boys
I have seen players in capital teams not spend a single penny and compete with ruby whales, if you knw what yu are doing you can compete, but possibly there should be more scope for this, but realistically they are not gonna want to make it too easy to play well and not pay.
Maybe a better way would be to limit amounts that can be bought a month, but then to get the revenue they would have to make it almost impossible to compete without ruby which would force people to buy small amounts of ruby,
I doubt much can be changed on this front short of charging subscription, and that would mean all the kids playing for free would be lost instantly.
Im not sure how this one can be solved, but there is without doubt a large gap that is getting larger at the top
It happened to me. I had to break myself out of the "ruby routine" several months ago due to real-world financial responsibilities. The increased display of greed and disregard for their customers by GGS did make this transition a very easy one however, as I became less inclined to play and happy to leave the game if the choice between that and playing to their ruby tune had to be made.
Truth be told, had they reigned themselves in a bit, I'd still be buying regular (yet small) amounts of rubies; probably each payday. However, I won't do that anymore. How many others are out there playing this game not buying rubies for the same reason?
GGS made a great game. They sucked in their customer base and then they brought in psychologists and data analysts to squeeze us for every penny. That was their plan from the start and is what disgusts me. Their cleverly worded updates. Lack of respect for customers. Lack of basic discussion with their customers. When a company treats you this badly, it becomes very easy to no longer buy off them.
Moral fibre is not at the core of the decision making