Sorry what I wrote is not clear… I mean if all your troops are level 20 and you get the bonus, there is no refund of the souls that you spend for leveling your troops.
Yes and no. As I said these bonus are the only interesting things that high level players can get with dollars. I personnaly round my VIP level to get the “troops at level 10” bonus. Yes I bought gems for that because gems are always useful but the main reason was for the bonus (which seems useful when you don’t a stock of souls but useless when you have 400k…).
It reminds me that we already discussed about that here: Pity Timer, still in the making? - #14 by Ozball
Nothing more to say, and to resume my answer I don’t see how guarantee a specific troop with a pity timer to players who give many dollars will make this game a P2W:
even if you have the troops that doesn’t mean that you are going to win
putting a Mythic troop doesn’t make your defense team unbeatable
one powerful setup is based on Mab/Justice/Valkyrie for example so, no troops super difficult to obtain (as Mab is buyable via the weekly dollar pack for 50$).
In resume, obtaining these Mythic troops doesn’t give a real advantage. Of course, a newcomer can start this game, doesn’t see what I expose and cry P2W. Exactly, what happens when the gold fee for battles was there…
And the hypothetic rich guy who spend 10,000$ in the game to maximise everything is a myth.
Pity timers are implemented in other games to avoid situation where one player spend huge amount of dollars without obtaining what he was trying to drop. I think it’s fair to have this kind of feature in the game and no, the Crafting is not the same that a pity timer…
Fair enough, and I do agree crafting is not the same as a pity timer. I’ll admit I might have been a bit harder on the P2W element of things than was necessary.
True, though this is why I specified “up to” in my post, since peoples’ returns will vary based on the state of their troops when they hit the leveling point…
Different people will have different reasons, but from a business point of view you’re still getting them as bonuses on top of whatever else you bought (the gems in your case), and regardless of your own reasons for buying them. I think the take away from this is more that we could use some interesting things for higher level players to buy for cash, rather than a change in the VIP bonuses.
My bad, I wasn’t intending to imply anything either. I merely wished to state an interesting observation.
I’m also glad that you and others similar are able to support the game where I’m incapable.
We probably wouldn’t even have GoW right now without your kind patronage.
Well the first time that the VIP system got implemented it showed that I was at VIP 9, I nearly choked on my Cheerios! Man I spent a lot of money my first year of playing GoW. At 12 now but I haven’t spent anything in a while now since I have all troops and stuff almost 100% traited (just missing a couple of Red/Brown troops and the Red GW troop). Nothing left to spend money on really…
@Rickygervais I love you in a you’re a pretty hardcore dedicated gamer sort of way. But really it’s hard to feel for you on this when you have every other card in the game.
Cause someone like you should be able to earn up a lot again. You know you got 1500 gems plus all the basic tasks to cover GW expenses plus however many legendary tasks. You should be able to open another 30-50 VIP chests already. You’re swimming in riches. Go ahead… Try more… It’s still in there just calling out to you…
Lol not really i only got 400 gems since i spended everything i had already in the hope to get the mythic, i was swimming in the riches before the guild rewards was nerfed but now it’s totally false
Being a VIP player I absolutely hated the guild nerf. Gem keys?? Wtf is that shit that’s why I became VIP. I spend gems on VIP and not gem chest.
Need as many gems as you can get to with Mythic drop rates being very streaky. Being VIP I felt that was the biggest kick in the balls. Gem keys instead of gems. I felt insulted tbh.
Yeah yeah I know not really 3rd world problems. Just putting it out there.
Guess you can hope that it will be in chests when the Khaziel event rolls around. That way you can drop thousands of event keys to get it…
Oh who am I kidding… You have 1500 seals… If the guild hits 40000 before Friday you’ll drop them all for yet another crack. You can’t resist… Gotta catch em all and you won’t let yourself be beaten by this. Whatever the cost… Stonehammer will be yours! (and then likely ignored for other troops because he’s no Elemaugrim.)
Edit: I thought about doing the $50 coin flip for one of the mythics I didn’t have. Had 6 at the time, missing 5. I resisted. Then while opening chests to try and get Lion Prince troops to mythic… well shucks, only got Famine instead. My wallet sung the “Hallelujah” Chorus.
If you (general, not specifically you) want it bad enough and feel it’s worth it to you…
But again, I was in the #1 guild on the ps4 for 1 week. My gem count alone went from 0 to 3100 by the time I left just 7 days later. I know you’re in the Xbox equivalent guild so for me, hell yeah I would have kept burning resources all this week til I got it, which fortunately I did off my last gem key. I’m pretty certain you guys grab a lot of resources from tasks and hourly tribute collections… It really isn’t like where you’re not getting massive rewards back come next Monday.
And like I said, Khaziel event in about a month. Might be in the chest for event keys. But why wait… Spend! Spend! Spend!
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