VIP 20, Level 1772, been playing almost 3 years.
I would love trophies to be awarded for all game modes. 1 trophy standard would be fine outside of ranked pvp.
I would much prefer Tower of Doom being less gem-intensive, and the rewards for the LB to be worth the cost to compete.
Others have great suggestions, which I enjoyed reading.
But whatever they do or don’t do, I love GOW and I will play it to the end of its days.
So, you’re the guy who spent over 8300 EUR to get to VIP 20?
Congratulations! I thought that there are no such players.
There’s 2.5 of them on this thread a lone assuming you mean vip 20, not just only male vip 20.
So there’s definitely at least 10+ vip 20 players in the game.
Just at least 10% of my guild houses them. 
Well, I don’t mind. It’s not my money. I suppose we should be grateful, then again, they are the main reason why we get such greedy monetization options.
Yes, because if the company made no money at all, there would be lots of money for new content, quality of life changes, and those new patches… I’m sorry you feel I’m part of the reason free to play players have such a hard time, if that’s what you were suggesting.
You’re kidding right?
You’re blaming those who pay the electricity bill for the increase in the cost of electricity?
(Read an economics book and then get back to me.)
Don’t waste your time with idiots. That’s what I’m here for. 
Not all free to play players have a hard time
That’s awesome, and good to hear. I certainly wouldn’t hold grudges or call out anyone for being free to play, what others choose to support or not support with their cash is of no concern to me. My response was really aimed at not understanding why the people that actively support the game would be considered the cause for others to be subjugated to unfair practices, but I guess I don’t have to, since it doesn’t really effect me.
And this has really gone off topic. We should get back to what’s important in this thread, which is people voting on what cool things they would choose to change if GOW was their project.
I am somewhere around level 1250, VIP 2, and have been playing since May 2016. No breaks, but I am certainly playing MUCH less per week.
Pure Faction Delves are the worst aspect of this game, imo. The balancing, even with the recent update, is poor and I’m not spending an entire weekend grinding a delve with potions just to clear it. I have a better things to do with my time.
I also voted for pet rescue because that needs some attention as well. My recommendation is to create a weekly pet rotation schedule or give us a week long pet event that corresponds to the kingdom weekly event and does not interfere with the usual pet events. That way, those of us who are being held up by not having mythic pets to level our kingdoms can decide if it’s worth spending resources on pet baskets or not.
Level 1646
VIP 14
I’m not Sirrian, but this is how I feel about the game.
Adventure Boards: Boring filler content, either I do it or don’t.
Challenges: Boring filler content, I don’t see the need to do them.
Chaos Orbs: Boring filler content and aggravating. Either I’m content with a Blue orb or indifferent and just reminded of boredom. The gambling aspect is worse than knowing what I’m getting from the get-go.
Cheating: not an issue on X1 thankfully
Class Trials: Boring filler content, poorly structured, and poorly priced.
Classes: Good idea done poorly. Will think that way as long as some trees are useless/near useless. Hero Class Revisions
The Mechanist change bugs me, especially since we’ll never get a 50% mana class with the Fire tree now. Would gladly sacrifice the Wind Tree. Likewise, Oracle being downgraded with Wind from Stone.
Deeds: Bad idea done poorly. Scrap it. If I have to give a special spin, I’d say make Deeds purchasable with Souls daily in limited amounts. Time gated, but less obnoxious than the Adventure Board.
Diamonds/Jewels: I think its done poorly. Outside of using Diamonds for Mythics, I can’t think of one feature I really like about Diamonds or Jewels. Yeah, you can craft weapons you’re missing, but I don’t think weapons should be done that way in the first place.
Explore: Fine, Quests: Not sure its in a good place for new players.
Factions: Okay, though rewards are uninspired. Gold per day isn’t very exciting of a long term goal. Ingots per day is actually a nice idea, but not if its the only thing. 3 Delves per day is a poor amount when more new factions keep coming out, but its overshadowed by the fact there’s very little incentive to do them when factions are maxed out. People on both end of the spectrum are screwed.
Faction Assaults: I thought Tuesday one day events are stupid, though it makes it easier to get 1st on the leaderboard for the Orb of Power. Could easily be two (have it run concurrent with Wednesday Pet Rescue) or even three (class events don’t last that long unless going for the top of the leaderboard).
Game Chat: Fine when it works.
Gems Currency: I think its a bit on the low side, but it must be successful as I get nervous for people every week when an event is going. Leaderboard expenditures are going higher and higher.
Gold: Fine, as long as its not expected to be spent on upgrading Faction treasure hoard.
Guild Wars: This mode is slowly falling apart. I liked Guild Wars to get away from slot machine gameplay and these empowered troops have made the experience less enjoyable.
Guilds: They’re too mandatory to play the game and yet it doesn’t feel like there’s much interaction required for a guild environment. Feels like it lacks co-operative gameplay. Tower of Doom isn’t much co-op, just one person scouting and everyone dodging landmines that are supposed to have been helpful in its inception.
Invasions: Boring filler content
Legendary Tasks: Nerfed so many times that its become more boring filler content. I’m not excited by any of the drops in a LT. A mythic is nice, but how often does that come up? Most mythics aren’t worth batting an eye at.
Mailbox: At least its been updated a few times, but its something that should never have been able to go over 100 pieces of mail in a few days during the holiday. The fact that you can’t “hold” mail or prioritize certain mail is silly. The guild mate I had that didn’t receive his GW rewards because his mailbox went over 100 during Christmas quit the game. Well done.
Monetization: Overpriced
Notifications: seems less stable than before
Overall Difficulty: artificial. Nothing is in the sweet spot. Its either ridiculously imbalanced (Pure Faction teams) or too easy (everything else with potions)
Pets: Good idea done poorly. In 3-5 years, I hate to be the one trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Pet Rescues: Length of time: I think you start it and are actively playing it, you should be allowed to finish it. Cosmetic pets shouldn’t exist, there’s too many arbitrary bonuses that it could be doing, like giving 1 extra gold per battle. Pet targetting is something that needs to be explored sooner rather than later.
PvP: Filler content. Would say boring, but what else could be played in the game? I feel like PvP could be tied back into a Guild Activity, like clearing x amount of battles as a guild unlocks a reward for the guild for conquering an area, like temporary gold gain bonus, or extra xp bonus etc.
PvP/Guild Wars Defense: Sliders were a good idea done poorly. Needed some text stating the purpose of the sliders, which was never actually provided. Don’t care if Sliders don’t come back, but a proper place to actually test defenses is needed.
RNG: The RNG in this game is busted. I’m sure someone will fight me on this stating probability. I don’t care enough about it.
Quality Assurance: where?
Servers: Its usually fine
Souls/Glory: We just need less currency in general. They’re making this game way overcomplicated for no good reason.
Soulforge: see Diamonds/Jewels
Tower of Doom: Boring Filler Content. Rewards don’t justify the content.
Traitstones: Somehow, fine.
Treasure Maps: This wouldn’t be an issue if Treasure Maps weren’t so pointless. Maybe if you could actually use them else where? Use them as Daily Delve tokens, for one.
Troops: most of them are balanced, but its the ones that aren’t that stand out more.
Tutorials: Despite Luther showing up every 5 minutes, I don’t think the game actually teaches all that well. Yeah, you can look up a game guide off the game, but then it breaks immersion.
VIP Bonuses: Really outdated, could use more.
Weapons: most of them are balanced, but its the ones that aren’t that stand out more.
This game is really far from what I signed up for when I first started. I ask myself daily why do I still play Gems of War? My favorite part of the game in the past was using new troops and trying to make creative teams, but even that’s gone.
I guess I’m just waiting to be wowed. I am impressed by things, but in the wrong direction.
@awryan I’m surprised you didn’t bring up gnomes/battle crashers/the vault
Those seem like all additions. It’s hard to bitch about a free meal.
(Plus only 40 options on the poll. I did my best to think of others issues and not just my own. But I’ve never heard of folks having issues with them.)
The only time I heard people having issue with battle crasher is a strong/ mythic lvl battle crasher (Phoenicia) or a mana generator one. The other time was battle crasher happen before / during GW week with shitty reward and the player cant practice a certain match up
Vip 10, lv 1212
Lvl 1291 and Vip 0 here, defo i cant be defined a “knight in shiny armor protecting the devs/publisher” still gotta say GoW is really f2p friendly, actually the most f2p friendly game i played so far.
I dont really see all that monetization you talk about (ring of wonder? deathknight armor? the lately deeds that cost so much? only save you a bit of time and give quite little bonuses), most stuff locked behind paywalls is optional to say the least (take this week weapon as example, Staff of Madness, i dont have it and i wont “miss” it either).
Ps: thought we could put just 1 vote in the pool hehe, only after seen you could pick multiple choices.
Perhaps my wording was a bit off.
Not really. It’s a general consesus that’s most commonly used why the monetization is so absurdly expensive. Mostly because of OCDs or because of so-called “Whales” that are throwing so much money, making it more expensive and less accessible to other, poorer groups.
I don’t exactly share the same view about this matter, and I really don’t care, because the money they pay, is their own.
Amazing, but I expected nothing less from you. You need your daily dose of self-relevance, I suppose.
Perhaps I wrote this, so that you can lecture me about the economics, Mister Ryan.
Good day!
I never responded to this, because I had too much to say, and I also couldn’t see “find a new publisher (or crowdfund to publish the game independently)” amongst the options (/didn’t feel like being so antagonistic at the time).
I think it’s still relevant, though 
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Level 1396 and vip 5, Been playing for 3.5 years