Originally published at: November Event Calendar – Gems of War
It’s our Birthday! Join us in November as we celebrate the past DECADE of all things Krystara! Halloween Advent & Halloween Holiday Event ending: October 31st New Silverglade Mythic: November 1st Campaign Primeval Tome ending: 4th Community Challenge & Weekly login rewards begin!: 4th Studio public holiday: 5th Campaign Unholy Flame begins: Nov 11th –…
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Well that’s going to be a guaranteed tone deaf video looking at the current track record for these kind of videos 
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I’ve honestly never been so tempted to walk away from this game forever.
You’re not listening to players and fixing all the problems in the game. You keep pushing more and more paid offers and terrible design choices like hiding everything behind RNG.
And now, you want to celebrate the 10 year anniversary, with a lackluster update that adds more paid offers, behind more RNG, and doesn’t really add anything exciting at all. Then we get some free stuff, - which yeah that’s great so thanks - but we used to get a community week every year that gave more than this and that wasn’t for some big anniversary. Then, we’re getting a new crafting mythic that requires troops locked behind RNG (tarot cards), even though the fans have told you thousands of times we HATE this. Plus a pet we have to buy, or wait for it to appear in pet rescue, even though we’ve pointed out repeatedly that paid pets NEVER actually turn up in pet rescues. I really hope it’s easy to grab all four tarot cards, and doesn’t require payment or this is gonna be an even bigger spit in the face from you.
Oh, and a free copy of a legendary troop (not a mythic?), which is nice, but the event pet requires we earn the last copy, in the Wednesday pet event (on the 27th), instead of sending us a copy in the mail like usual. Why is this being treated as worse than normal events? Thanks, but it could be better, so easily.
Then you say there’s more stuff, but we have to pay attention to your social media? Why not announce anything in game? Why force players to go elsewhere, yet again, as always?
And a video, surely bragging about how wonderful you are, while players complain you’re not listening and we’re getting sick of this. And promoting what’s coming next, which will probably be more of the same stuff we’re already telling you we want removed. I’m not optimistic about what you’re promising for the future - I’ve seen what you thought was fan-pleasing in the past.
So yeah, sorry I’m a little salty, but this is really disappointing. I guess I’ll just collect the free stuff and thanks for that, but I really thought you’d do better. Really sets the tone for the next decade… if you last that long.
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Happy birthday Gems of War! 
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I tried getting a response from the devs for this exact reason. There are too many tarot cards in the game now and it becomes harder and harder to “collect them all.” More and more vault keys we have to collect. More and more players leaving from burnout. I fear that the money locked anniversary offer will be the only reasonable way to get Dragon King Luther.
The offers and anniversary event will be a nice celebration for the game, but it’s going to be overshadowed by money offers. I want to feel better about the game. I honestly do. But the tide of cash offers keep knocking me down…
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So the tarot cards are for sale hahahahahah . Soooo nasty.
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A good present would be the devs doing something about journey, silver marks in burning chests, and vp point burnout
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live long gems but try not to prosper 
too much hey x
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So diluting the vault key rewards with yet more cards. Great
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Remember 10 years ago when ALL troops could be found in chests? Happy anniversary to when the game was simple and made boat loads of cash in large part due to its simple resource collection. Everything that made Gems of War special is being ripped away and celebrating the past only illustrates how uncertain this games future truly is.
The customer ISN’T always right. And for this video game in particular players DO know what they want.
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I don’t really want to rain on the parade. It’s just, a pre-recorded video entirely avoids all contact with the community this video is intended for, possibly because you are concerned the contents might be way of touch with how the game is perceived. It’s also so 20th century.
How about we instead get a live Sirrian instead of a canned Sirrian? One we can interact with, who listens to our concerns, tries to understand them and possibly has more to say than “being incredibly exited about the future of the game”? I mean, it’s the 10th anniversary, surely you can let/drag him out of his dungeon for a few hours to do a live stream and Q&A session, right? For starters, I’d love to see Sirrian playing a few high level Journey battles, using the configuration we had to suffer through this week.
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Its sad really. Its not longer his game and not ours either. We are just hanging by…
They are selling a celebration?
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Wouldn’t that be a “sell-ebration”?
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Are we going to have a community week as part of the celebration?
I mean, the one, which is promised to be every year (of course, if devs haven’t meant a Neptune year)
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bring back salty as a one off for this
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Would be alot more appreciated then a fake happy tone deaf person for sure. Can only speak for myself but Sirrian really makes me sick with how stupid their videos are. Do better or don’t do anything at all @Gems-of-War.
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On to the next 10 years! 
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The Devs don’t listen to players and worse, they don’t care about their feelings, they just do what they want!
For me, this will be the end of Gems of War and Puzzle Quest 3!!!
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Tldr:
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We’re recycling last year’s armour to make the Halloween event more special.
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We are also celebrating one year of Guild Wars being deleted because of “bugs” or whatever.
Thanks for the freebies.
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@Jeto - it’s been 6 months since this post was updated. Any news you could share would be super helpful.