Look out, as we have a special Anniversary blog releasing later in the month as well!
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It always baffles me how Sirrian manages to sound so chipper while fully ignoring the whole community and our concerns.
Does he never see any of it?
It would seem more sincere if some things would be acknowledged, for example how GWs was promised by the end of this year and is now “planned to come back” by early 2025.
We all feel ignored over here, and these videos always seem so tone deaf.
Still hope the game will continue to exist, and will get better. Maybe some day you’ll use some of our money to get us an actual community manager who will have time to work for and with the players to elevate the game to what it could be.
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he doesn’t
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Yeah, that’s my point.
He seems to be siting in his ivory castle. And maybe the numbers are looking good, and the plans for the game may also look good to someone who doesn’t play it every day.
I’ve gotten so exhausted by it, I stopped caring for many events. Haven’t played vault for the last 5 or 6 times, I’m ignoring underspire, only playing the bare minimum in guild events…
While my other game always implements possibilities to alleviate the stress of having too many events by, for example, giving a master mission that let’s you play 1 harder mission instead of 6 easier ones, or a “play one mission and then get the same amount of points by pressing this button for your other two weekly tries”, gems heaps more and more stuff onto us players that make it impossible to keep up with everything if you haven’t made gems your job.
I can’t even begin to imagine how it must feel to start a new gems account these days.
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And look at all the game-breaking bugs and obnoxious, useless, insulting monetization they’ve given us to celebrate.
Go ahead, ask us how appreciated we feel as a community
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I must admit he got me when he claimed the revamped PvP has been “well received”.
I did type out a list of player complaints, but it felt like a long read as it reached at least 14 points. So I will simply close with how I would have done…
Maybe he was talking about the brief period where the game was generating random teams for players to face, because that’s about the only time I saw more positive than negative feedback.
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Sirrian: (talking about the new PvP update) So far, like a lot of things in gems of war, it’s…
Me: Broken and buggy?
Sirrian: …been popular and well received…
Me: Wow, who told you that? Have they tried playing the game recently? Or talking to players?
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Actually playing their own game and talking to us?
And speaking of which, there’s a glaring bug on the Switch version that any idiot could discover pretty easily.
I’m not going to mention that or anything else for the time being because they honestly don’t give two birds about anything but their wallets.
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Never forget sirrian and his “fun” comment about random dragons. Totally tone deaf to what the players have been asking for. We said we did not want more monetization and what did we get? Buccaneer offers which were quite frankly an absolute insult
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Not sure. If I were responsible for a once great game that I let devolve into an utterly broken mess, I’d probably also rather celebrate on my own with some pre-recorded self praise than face the contempt of the community.
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Well… Yeah. 
I’m still hoping they’ll see the light one day, like it happened in the other game I play.
We got so much the community wanted, and when I see players complain over there (with a new developer team now), I can only sigh and think to myself how good we have it compared to gems.
They’re not perfect, but I’m mad about exactly one thing. One. And so far, they’ve fixed everything and gave out actually valuable compensation.
Not sure what Sirrian and Co are thinking.
Anniversary update - more monetization at an absolutely ridiculous price point while also adding more unnecessary clicks to the game. And adding a constantly blinking ! to the dailies if we don’t do everything, which I usually don’t. We told them we hated that.
Maybe it’s a constant opposite day over there? I mean, they’re down under… Maybe we need to tell them how much we love stuff that we actually hate?
Anyway, I started spending my money on the other game with 0.99 to 1.99 offers every week that are of actually great value and that don’t get shoved in my face at all.
Good job, gems team. 
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Before 2017 @Sirrian was more active towards players. Because of to much negativity, including death threats, they hired Salty back then as pretty much a community manager. Then when she got a new job things went from bad to worse which caused more frustration. As no offense to Kafka, Bramble and Jeto but communicating with the players isn’t something that developers should be dealing with this much as it takes away time to fix things for the game.
Had a little ban so decided to learn a bit about how things come to be and it’s a bit more understandable where things went wrong and continue to go wrong
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An anniversary message from myself:
Gems of War currently feels like a live service game that was designed to last for 5 years but is now 10 years old.
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You’ve got my curiosity . . . I wouldn’t expect it’s one I know of personally, but it does remind me I need to report another one I’ve noticed since about last week.
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It’s a beneficial bug I am kind of keeping a secret. I didn’t mean to sound unprofessional by saying “idiot,” but sometimes I get pretty frustrated with the game because the Quality Assurance with beta testing and other things don’t seem to pick up on issues that should be fixed before release.
Don’t stress yourself over this, as I know there are other problems on Switch that have a much higher importance to fix than this. It just amazes me at times that updates are “finalized” with problems like this.
I’m probably too used to the glory days of Blizzard North, when those artists and developers would polish games to perfection…
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It would be enough if they would read.
Strangely, my other game did very well once they hired a good community manager who was actually for the community and didn’t belittle anyone, like Salty did on stream.
It’s really like everyone working on the game despises the players.
Not saying it’s true but that is how it feels like.
I wasn’t here for the death threats, that is obviously not okay, but treating the whole community with disdain or at best disregard because of some terrible people seems very much counter productive.
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These forums seem to have never gotten a clean up so it’s quite interesting to look back.
It can be a bit frustrating seeing things people have requested for literal years. Funny stuff as well with what people used to complaint about. Though still a good archive of what all happened that makes current state of the game more understandable.
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you do right too, its on them to test. bugs should be ironed out before we get the release
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What has happened that makes it more understandable that the anniversary update was not much more than another money grab, just to pick one example?
Or in general, what makes the state of the game understandable? And especially, what makes it so that things couldn’t change?
Wanting something never means that everything has to be implemented, but some things are really not too much to ask from the player perspective, and we never get an answer why it isn’t done.
I suppose “we don’t know how to do that” would still be better than complete silence.
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Understandable as in the drop in proper communication how that happened. It’s however not acceptable that it is like that.
Developers shouldn’t also have to act like community managers unless it’s a certain area they know more about. A proper community manager, like Salty, that connects better with the players is definitly needed but that has been mentiond multiple times in the past as well with unfortunatly no changes there.
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