# I feel embarrassed for having recommended this game
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837
**Category:** Off Topic
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837 "2017-09-05T15:32:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/21 "2017-09-05T20:38:23Z")
You know that is not true today the way it was true a year ago 🙂 Also you know I’m not really discussing RNG. I’ve always appreciated RNG and I’m on the record saying it. But the balance has gone completely whacko.
OT: please make me a rule for hiding the delete button, I had to fight myself pressing it several times today 😆
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### Author:  [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/22 "2017-09-05T20:40:52Z")
No, it was, and people were loud about it then as they are now. It’s just easy to look back at the past and forget.
The only things that have changed are the following:
1. Time has passed, and players are less forgiving of repeated mistakes, game balance or otherwise.
2. Until now, it has never felt like the devs have ever taken anything away from us, resource-wise.
The latter point is what I believe to be most responsible for the current climate.
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### Author:  [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/23 "2017-09-05T20:42:43Z")
No Lyaa, you are conflating people’s recent complaints with my topic. We are all aware of changes to the gem distribution, some intentional, some through bugs. You’re moving this OT IMO.
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### Author:  [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/24 "2017-09-05T20:43:58Z")
Not intentionally, my apologies. Your feelings notwithstanding – and I don’t mean to disregard them, you are of course entitled to them – the complaints about game balance and the random nature of what feels like it should be a tactical game go all the way back to when I started playing in early 2015.
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### Author:  [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/25 "2017-09-05T20:44:33Z")
No, my issue is that my videos introduce people to a game they basically hate, and then I hear about it and take abuse. Not to over-reduce it but really that’s it.
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### Author:  [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/26 "2017-09-05T20:45:23Z")
Understood. Sounds like you would be best served by removing them, then, if it is causing you hardship.
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### Author:  [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/27 "2017-09-05T20:47:29Z")
It is a much more complicated issue than simply that. Ugh… I over reduced which I regret.
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### Author:  [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/28 "2017-09-05T20:48:24Z")
It’s as complicated as you wish to make it, then. Best of luck with your decision.
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### Author:  [@Vangor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vangor)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/29 "2017-09-05T20:51:28Z")
Ya know fwiw i agree with @Lyya here
If people are hating on you for your videos you have 2 choices
1. Take them down
Or
2. Ignore them and do what makes you happy
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### Author:  [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/30 "2017-09-05T20:51:42Z")
How about this: hypothetically speaking, would there be any unfortunate consequences to the company by doing so? Do you think it is so simple, and people won’t jump all over that decision to ram it in the dev’s faces at every opportunity? Or do you think it really is as simple as taking down videos for a game I currently do not recommend. Seriously I’m asking you, because I have always valued your opinion, but you don’t seem to be really giving this topic anything but short-shrift.
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### Author:  [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/31 "2017-09-05T20:52:47Z")
If you are putting the company’s needs ahead of your own, I suggest you stop. They aren’t paying you and you owe them nothing.
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### Author:  [@Salibu](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Salibu)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/32 "2017-09-05T20:53:14Z")
6 hours bro
Destiny 2 is on the horizon. Leave gow for awhile and emerse yourself in a different world.
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### Author:  [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/33 "2017-09-05T20:54:00Z")
I’m trying to find a balance really. I used to love the game and support it. I don’t any more but I might yet again. But that over-simplifies things…I don’t want to punish them or put on a huge performance. Or give the trolls fodder for their insanity.
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### Author:  [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/34 "2017-09-05T20:55:08Z")
I’ve got a big backlog of Steam game to finish, no more new ones!
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### Author:  [@nando1881](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/nando1881)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/35 "2017-09-05T21:11:22Z")
> [@Lyya](#):
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> If you are putting the company’s needs ahead of your own, I suggest you stop. They aren’t paying you and you owe them nothing.
That ^^^
Look man, I have a YT channel myself and I did lots of videos for a FTP Android/Facebook zombie game. The game was fairly popular back in the day but I never tought that I was giving any more or less time to the company or that the company was getting profit from my videos in any way, I just did them because I was having fun making it.
So in the end, you should think if making GoW videos is fun for YOU or not.
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### Author:  [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/36 "2017-09-05T21:24:07Z")
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I get that what I do with my channel is my business and I am well within my right to do what I want.
I had no idea that when I started doing what I was doing that it would take on a life of its own. And now I have this… thing… and I have to deal with it, and just turning it off isn’t as one-sided as it is being made out.
Not to drag Lyaa back into this, but imagine a hypothetical situation where she turned off ashtender one day, which is her right to do. I actually think that site has done more for players than I have by a long shot and no intention to compare what we do, I’m just talking about the principal of removing something, like it or not, that has become part of the fabric of this game. Especially under such acrimonious conditions as are present with the recent game changes.
Whether others are sensitive to it or not, I absolute know removing all my videos will have many consequences that are not readily apparent. And again, I have no desire to punish this game or the company.
Perhaps I **am** overthinking it. It is a real possibility. I do thank you for adding your voice.
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### Author:  [@Vangor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vangor)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/37 "2017-09-05T21:30:05Z")
What are you worried about with removing your videos @KrudlerTheHorse?
People being mad?
My advice… Dont worry about that. You dont know these ppl irl so why sweat it.
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### Author:  [@MadKratos](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/MadKratos)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/47 "2017-09-05T22:09:30Z")
Despite being a fairly new player, i just play for about 4 months, i totally agree with your opinion. The game already had a few bugs, but since the last update, it feels like the game choose the winner at the start of the battle. You only need to play 3 or 4 turns to know who will win the battle, and that’s very disapointing. Even if you win, it just feels empty!
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### Author:  [@Delinquent](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Delinquent)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/48 "2017-09-05T22:34:23Z")
> [@Stan](#):
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> To be honest, it has felt like a messy transition period since about January. Rather than pushing to release buggy content as fast as possible, they need to slow down and start getting things right the first time, at least once in a while. Ambition can not continue to trump execution.
It has been really messy! Sever issues, guild wars issues, AI/gem algo issues. Yet there’s also only been, what, 3 updates in the 9 months since the December update?
> [@Lyya](#):
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> 1. Until now, it has never felt like the devs have ever taken anything away from us, resource-wise.
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> The latter point is what I believe to be most responsible for the current climate.
I seem to recall a similar amount of outrage with 2.0 and the original changes to guild tasks. We got through that, and the game was back to being great for a while. I like choosing to see the glass half full.
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### Author:  [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-feel-embarrassed-for-having-recommended-this-game/29837/49 "2017-09-05T22:35:37Z")
> [@Delinquent](#):
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> It has been really messy! Sever issues, guild issues, AI/gem algo issues. Yet there’s also only been, what, 3 updates in the 9 months since the December update?
Oh man I must have blocked all of that out. I forgot about Mongo and his ilk! Yes, this game has been in constant upheaval for maybe 6 months. It is getting so hard to weather the constant thrashing about.
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