# Is this a GoW April Fool's joke? **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\ **Created:** [April 1, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412 "2020-04-01T07:52:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brc\_ro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@brc\_ro](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/brc_ro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/1 "2020-04-01T07:52:35Z")
Or will we actually be blessed beyond measure? šŸ™‚ ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/b/0/b077e8a0b9c179a1a99ef16b56ba57a83cd3a08f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Megaqwerty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/megaqwerty/32/58238_2.png) [@Megaqwerty](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Megaqwerty)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/2 "2020-04-01T07:59:35Z")
So what are you planning on using your hundred orbs of growth on? ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 8:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/3 "2020-04-01T08:00:48Z")
Iā€™m gonna put them with my other hundreds of orbs of growth. Iā€™d make a tower out of them but theyā€™re spherical and therefore are as good for building a tower as they are for _anything else_! ---
**Author:** ![mitamata](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mitamata/32/10313_2.png) [@mitamata](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/mitamata)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/4 "2020-04-01T08:07:19Z")
If itā€™s a joke, itā€™s not funny. ---
**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 8:29am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/5 "2020-04-01T08:29:25Z")
> [@mitamata](#): > > If itā€™s a joke, itā€™s not funny. Agree to disagree. ---
**Author:** ![awryan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/awryan/32/74650_2.png) [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/6 "2020-04-01T08:54:50Z")
The amount of Rage Quits generated by the joke 28 days from now = šŸ’Æ (Assuming they donā€™t bother to change the graphic before then.) Thanks devs. šŸ‘ ---
**Author:** ![PGSundling](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/pgsundling/32/39480_2.png) [@PGSundling](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/PGSundling)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/7 "2020-04-01T09:08:09Z")
I doubt it will be there on April 2. The joke would be even better if it was 100 ascension orbs. ---
**Author:** ![lonewolf6668](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lonewolf6668/32/51972_2.png) [@lonewolf6668](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/lonewolf6668)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/8 "2020-04-01T13:58:50Z")
With the number of players dwindling this is so not the time for this sort of thing. Hope Iā€™m wrong but not holding my breath ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![vanyel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/vanyel/32/32071_2.png) [@vanyel](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/vanyel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/9 "2020-04-01T14:29:21Z")
> [@lonewolf6668](#): > > With the number of players dwindling this is so not the time for this sort of thing. Please provide your source that indicate this. I havenā€™t seen any indication of a ā€œdwindlingā€ player base. Iā€™m always interested in how some players ā€œknowā€ these things to be true. ---
**Author:** ![brc\_ro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@brc\_ro](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/brc_ro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/10 "2020-04-01T14:44:15Z")
Only for the Samsung Galaxy player base. Players went down from 9.55 K to 6.30 K. Now, I do not know how things looked like last year for the same period, for example. But numbers went down, nevertheless, and the trend keeps going that way. Still, losing 35% of the player base in just 4 months is, or should be troubling for any developer. @vanyel ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/4/f/4ff019d2d1edefb9b3bd73b74e5d13d188b6c1ff.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![vanyel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/vanyel/32/32071_2.png) [@vanyel](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/vanyel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/11 "2020-04-01T14:58:35Z")
Cool! Thanks! Finally someone that can back something up with data/facts! Where does one find that data on oneā€™s galaxy?? Being itā€™s specific to galaxy users, guess thereā€™s no way to account for how many of those switched to non-galaxy devices, steam or even other platforms. But still, a trend down is a trend down for that particular group. ---
**Author:** ![Megaqwerty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/megaqwerty/32/58238_2.png) [@Megaqwerty](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Megaqwerty)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/12 "2020-04-01T14:58:51Z")
> [@vanyel](#): > > > [@lonewolf6668](#): > > > > With the number of players dwindling thisā€¦ > > I havenā€™t seen any indication of a ā€œdwindlingā€ player base. All developer comments indicate that the player base is only growing with time despite all player complaints. Beatings will continue until morale does not improve. ---
**Author:** ![Voq](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/voq/32/54089_2.png) [@Voq](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Voq)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/13 "2020-04-01T15:01:01Z")
Itā€™s in the Game Launcher app. ---
**Author:** ![brc\_ro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@brc\_ro](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/brc_ro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/14 "2020-04-01T15:09:29Z")
To put things into a better contextā€¦ look at the player base in the past 8 months. Numbers started declining before Christmas - the time period of the year when people usually have more free time and spend more time indoors and on their devicesā€¦ More importantly than that, though, the numbers seemed sort of stable before that. Nowā€¦ remind meā€¦ when did the wave of changes kick in? When were the Guild tasks redesigned? šŸ™‚ ![91575786_157371095501820_3221773471172263936_n](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/f/0/f04df07e5a6a325915031464c8a1a2f1fa9d2bc5.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Voq](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/voq/32/54089_2.png) [@Voq](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Voq)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/15 "2020-04-01T15:15:47Z")
Since Steam was brought up, the numbers there are pretty steady, although it hasnā€™t really grown there recently (ignoring the spike due to COVID-19). The downward trend on Galaxy devices might be an anomaly šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/6/c/6c97aec0c94e89b0f1fd13b4acc5261845abd0f4.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/e/5/e51b759527a3ecbb9fc08280e3d0468a6c5469e7.png) ---
**Author:** ![canadademon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@canadademon](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/canadademon)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/16 "2020-04-01T15:17:01Z")
Mobile stats are a bit funny for this game, since it is linked with Steam. I was going to post the SteamChart as well but Voq literally just posted it as I wrote this. Iā€™m not sure about stats for console, but that would probably be the market they are focusing on the most. ---
**Author:** ![awryan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/awryan/32/74650_2.png) [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/17 "2020-04-01T15:18:06Z")
To anyone who believes that the number of players hasnā€™t been dropping streadily since 4.7 was released. Can I get you a cookie to go with your I+2 Kool aid? ---
**Author:** ![Thevc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thevc](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Thevc)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/18 "2020-04-01T15:26:00Z")
You should have said zero. Itā€™s a long time since players got any value from the game. This may have have gone some way to compensateā€¦or got us banned due to more incompetency than Trump claiming Covid was a hoax. Edit. This was flagged. I stand by the content. Have a snowflake on me. ---
**Author:** ![awryan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/awryan/32/74650_2.png) [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/19 "2020-04-01T15:29:36Z")
> [@Voq](#): > > Since Steam was brought up, the numbers there are pretty steady, although it hasnā€™t really grown there recently (ignoring the spike due to COVID-19). The downward trend on Galaxy devices might be an anomaly šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø. I see the Samsung mobile users playing on steam instead is how I view the two charts. ---
**Author:** ![vanyel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/vanyel/32/32071_2.png) [@vanyel](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/vanyel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412/20 "2020-04-01T15:46:41Z")
> [@awryan](#): > > To anyone who believes that the number of players hasnā€™t been dropping streadily since 4.7 was released. > > Can I get you a cookie to go with your I+2 Kool aid? Such an insightful addition to the discussion. Either put up some data to support your claim or go away. Your ā€œfeelingā€ or ā€œopinionā€ on the matter is irrelevant. For years now you and others toss around how every change is going to be the demise of GoW and yet here we are, still playing. And every indication from the devs is the game is going strong and the health of the game is where they want it to be. So until you nay-sayers quit with the BS that has no factual basis (or worse are wrong or misleading) and quit with the conspiracy theories that fly in the face of actual facts, iā€™ll continue calling it out and railing against it. Quit trying to make everyone else as miserable as you. And this goes doubly for you @Thevc! > [@Thevc](#): > > Itā€™s a long time since players got any value from the game. If you donā€™t get any value playing GoW, go find something to do that you do value. Any reasonable person still playing CLEARLY finds some value in it or they wouldnā€™t still be here. I get having criticisms. But stop just blurting out negative crap for the sole purpose of feeling compelled to say something, anything. Thanks @Voq @brc_ro for putting up something useful, but iā€™m now done with this thread. [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/is-this-a-gow-april-fools-joke/62412.md?page=2)