Not voting, my opinion as an veteran who has everything isn’t relevant lol.
Got some good reading in here. I will agree that, in general, the people who spend money enough to consider something like that… sort of spend and play enough that they also tend to have bulked-up collections to the extent that a random Mythic isn’t a big selling point to them.
Of course, at the same time, making it a specific Mythic screams P2W pretty loudly. And that system would be what? Like the current $50 event bundles in the store with a legendary and down, etc? Simply because of their existence, the Mythic ones would need to be $75 or $100 or something. And there are already issues with those existing bundles, like ‘Oh no I missed this week and now I can’t get Queen Mab’ (definitely had posts like that).
Overall the Path to Glory is a sort of trap really (I don’t like it being this way … ) - because if the only people going for it are those who can’t just get everything, then when they eventually get the Mythic, they’re not going to have the resources to deal with it properly, which necessitates more farming or spending. Correct me if I’m wrong on this.
Actually I disagree because the $50 bundles are guaranteeing a specific Mythic where-as the Paths would only guarantee a mythic you don’t have so unless you are only missing 1 Mythic, it’s still a gamble and thus that should (negatively) influence the cost.
As you said, we can buy Legendaries troops so why players will say nothing for Leg. but make a fuss for Mythic?
No because there is a one-month delay between the day that you bought the Path of Glory and the day that you received the Mythic. And you cannot buy another pack during this month.
I will never buy this Path of Glory without being sure that it will be useful (ie a missing Mythic), we are talking about 50$, not 5$.
I just imagine a newcomer that has only one Mythic and receive the same Mythic with a Path of Glory…
The traitstones really helped me fill in some cracks. The Mythic I got? Well, it was Famine #5. So that really soured me on both the Path to Glory II and even the Growth Pack II.
I’ve have fallen into a pattern of buying 50-100 VIP keys when a new Mythic Approaches, then all other keys saved for new kingdoms, or event keys for new legendaries. .
Yes, this is EXACTLY why I’ve never purchased any of those Packs. I took a break from Gems so I have a few missing Mythics. But the ones I do have, I’ve got multiple copies of. The last thing I need is another additional copy of the ones I already have in my the collection.
Just waiting to see what this crafting update will bring!
I would probably buy another path to glory if it gave a mythic at all
Pretty sure everyone understands you’re talking about path of glory 2, but that’s quite a bit more expensive then path of glory 1…
Btw, My wife and I both bought path of glory 1 twice, to unlock vip level 3 for free scouting…
But I’m not (ever) spending 50 dollars on a mythic, not even if I could pick the mythic myself. I can buy a whole game for that money.
I bought 3 for sons accounts. We went 0-3. Never again will we purchase this RNG pack. I don’t mind throwing the devs a bone but the pack needs to change ASAP.
As it is right now I would never buy the path to glory pack.
Why? I’m missing a good chunk of mythics. However, I feel like I am cursed and I have this sinking suspicion that I would certainly get a duplicate. $50 is not worth it for a random mythic and a bunch of traitstones that I could just farm.
If it was guaranteed to be one I don’t have then I would most likely buy it for a Christmas gift or every once in awhile (however I decide my hours to money ratio) and then maybe I could eventually get gards or famine or even aby.
That way if I could somewhat target with real money I’d feel like it would be money well spent. $50 is a lot of money to ask monthly. A crazy absurd amount honestly. It should have a good value.
In comparison I could subscribe to an MMO for 10-15 a month and get a huge game that’s more than matching gems. Not $50 for a single mythic card that may be rendered useless with “balancing”
As an aside, I really really want Gards avatar or famine but I don’t think I’ll ever get em
Obviously the poll isn’t scientific and these numbers probably aren’t significant in the grand scheme of things, but just breaking the numbers down.
Approximately 50 people said that would buy - that’s $2500 US
Of those 50 people (assuming all of the yes voted on both polls), an additional 25 (rounded) said they would buy two - that’s another $1250.
So that’s $7250 pledged revenue.
And if you add in the “maybe’s” there’s a potential for another $2500 or so.
For those of you that would like to see this change, how critical is it? If Path to Glory 2 were to stay the way it is (giving a random Mythic and trait stones) indefinitely, would you still be inclined to buy it?
A tough thing with this poll is how many of us in this forum are in the endgame.
Path of Glory II is great when you are hitting the middle game. The traitstones go right to use. Normal mid-game players will probably need 50%+ of the Mythic Troops, so their chances are pretty good to get one they don’t have.
So, while I really wish it would award a Mythic you don’t have, it may never see the change.
(Note: I also recently traited all my troops, which makes PoGII far less exciting with the ability to get a duplicate mythic.)
If you could get specific Mythics by spending real money, yet chances to get Mythic cards for the non-paying player are not raised so they drop like orange ones, then the game would become pay-to-win and I would leave it for sure. I have set a yearly budget of 30$ per active game year, which I spend solemly because I want to support real free-to-play games like this one (or like Tera or Path of Exile for instance). In all of these games I invested real money, since they are not the greedy type! That some people spend too much money is a problem of respective persons. They surely have this problem in other areas as well.
What I would love to see is a friend/family link… let’s say one per account. And that you can then buy something in the store, and both linked account get it.
My wife and I love to play games together, and we are having a ton of fun in gems of war.
And I would actually think about buying, for example, the 50$ armor, if I could buy it for the both of us at once.
when, to a low level, i suggested to buy a package with random mythic - i got a reply that they dont want it cos its random meaning most probably will not help them at all, plus they want to know what they are paying for - that player did some other purchases instead, i think armor and a pack with legendary instead of mythic…
(i dont really remmember what exactly they said but it was a clear no and it was not too expensive for them)
i mean it was surprising to me but it seems early on that random mythic is not really as wanted as late gamers would think it is
You can already buy a random Mythic for $50. We’re not asking to be able to target a specific Mythic. We’re asking for it not to give us one we already have. Big difference!
As a new’ish player, I might be able to speak to this, although I’m probably restating the obvious. I started playing mid October, and decided to purchase a Path to Glory mid-February, and the card had absolutely nothing to do with it. As has been discussed on here many times, some legendaries are seemingly over-powered while some mythics are under-whelming. When I looked at the catalog of mythics, there were only 2 that I “wanted” (Famine due to being the strongest mythic by a lot, and Pharos-Ra for soul farming). Most of the other mythics would have been “useful” and I could create teams with them, but they wouldn’t necessarily be significantly better than other teams I could field with non-mythic troops, they would just be “different”. And with only 8 or 9 mythics available at the time, my odds of getting one of those was pretty low. So the deciding factor for me was the traitstones, since I was at that sweet spot where I had played long enough to have lots of good cards that needed traitstones, but too early to have a big stockpile or a lot of glory. My feeling is that the card is more of a novelty or bonus for the pack, and not necessarily the driving factor. Which is a good thing, since I ended up getting Draakulis, so if I bought it for the mythic I would have been a bit bothered…
TLDR / Summary:
Basically, the majority of mythics are more valuable as collectibles and to “complete the set” rather than to actually play with, which means the target market is really late game players (or deep-pocketed impatient newbies ). For newer players, the draw is the stones.
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