Hi all,
This is a PERSONAL discussion prompt to quell my own curiousity by asking you all directly. This is not an “official” post organised by the team.
Apologies in advance - I’m a wall of text-er and as this is just a personal prompt, I’ve not spent time condensing this down:
Here on the forum, we get a lot of feedback and the overwhelming majority of that feedback tends to skew negative - which is HELPFUL, it is often THE MOST helpful feedback we receive.
However, it can be difficult at times when there is a lot of negative feedback to understand what exactly it is that you all enjoy about the gameplay. I think it’s easy to forget sometimes that it’s been a long time if ever when you’ve as an individual mentioned why you play the game. One of my jobs is to ensure that what people like about the game also gets through to the team - this is super easy in other areas of the community, outside of the forum players aren’t shy about telling us what they love about the game: the big general one being the gameplay concepts of match 3 mixed with a battle card game and collecting.
However, here on the community forum is where we get the most detailed and helpful feedback.
So I’d like to ask you as GoW community members who are so engaged with the game that you take time out of your day to come here (outside of the game!) to tell us in detail what you think about things, if you would give us your time to tell us in your way:
What is it that you like/love about Gems of War?
The goal of this thread is to highlight why you all play Gems of War.
With this in mind, I’d like to lay out some LOOSE guidelines - please feel free to break them but please also be mindful of not derailing the topic into a discussion we’ve already had extensively in other threads, please don’t make me battle for my life to keep it on topic haha
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Unless you literally play games for the amount of rewards you receive, reward feedback probably isn’t relevant to this thread
- For example: It makes sense to share here that you love collecting Troop cards - please give as much detail as you’d like including if you enjoy a specific method of collecting them, but it’s not relevant to the topic if you say something like “I only play PvP to earn Gold Marks” you didn’t install the game and keep coming back every day/week/month/year because of GOLD MARKS, maybe you keep playing because of what you spend them on though - is what you’re spending them on a part of the game you love? If yes, talk about that instead, if not then it’s probably not on topic for this thread.
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Please try to keep discussions about why you don’t like something out of this thread - unless you think it’s a small point that won’t overwhelm the rest of your post or the whole topic
- For example: “I love team building, which is why I hate PvP because every opponent has the same team” - not really what I’m hoping for out of this thread as we have tonnes of discussions about that all over the forum HOWEVER “I love team building so my favourite game mode is ABC specifically because of XYZ” is more in line with what I’m looking for here.
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If your only reason you play the game is because of the friends you’ve made and your Guild - please do let us know here, but also I’d love to know how long you’ve been playing the game and how long you’ve been with your guild - are you even in the same guild as your GoW friends? and what you think would bring that joy back to you for the game (focusing on the nice thing we could aim for rather than the bad thing we could eliminate - because again we have SOOO many discussions about the negatives already - I want to look at the aspirational here to get the feedback from a different angle)
Be respectful
This is not a space to tell someone how they feel is wrong. Different gamers place different levels of importance on different areas of their games. Everyone deserves to be heard - and as a reminder this is a community guideline. The way we grow and maintain a healthy forum community is by allowing others to speak and share their experience in respectful ways. I don’t know about you folks but I’d love to see us acquire more regulars here in the forum and the way we do that is by being respectful and kind to one another so that it feels like the kind of place new faces want to hangout with us discussing what we’re all passionate about, regardless of any disagreements about what’s good or bad about it - Gems of War
Not sure where to start?
Here’s some more detailed prompts if you’re not even sure where to start with that big general question - try to choose your favourite part of the game, here are some examples if any of these are your favourite or give you an idea of where to start. If any of these touch on an area of the game you don’t particularly enjoy or even think about - don’t answer it, this is all about your personal likes:
- What is your favourite game mode and why?
- Do you enjoy collecting Cards? If this is your favourite part, which method of collection is your favourite? Crafting, Chests, earning them through event rewards - and is there a specific event that you like better for this than others etc?
- Do you like the progression system? What about it do you like specifically? Did you like any stage of the game better than another (ie, first week/newcomer vs mid or endgame)? Would you consider yourself new, mid or endgame now and how long ago did you create a new account? What are you working on in terms of your account progress currently if you are enjoying it right now?
- Is your favourite part your Guild? What about your Guild is it that you love the most? Is it just the social chat? Chatting about the game itself? The teamwork on the Guild events and Guild Tasks? Something else?