W7 is a carding joke or what?

[freewill]

I have paid for premium tokens only, I have card points built up to use speed cards for faster armys you do not pay for faster armies you can use card points built up from wheel spins and your free cards that you gain. if there is 20 people close to you and 5 of them have come from other worlds they will surely have alot of cards saved up, so they will have advantage initially that advantage will go at some point.

Yeah, that's just bad mechanics at best and mostly a horrible excuse at trying to cover up the reality of pay2win.

[Fullerc8]

The secret to getting your precious stashes and ai lairs/camps is to simply wait until all the European players log off for the night. I'm in a hot zone for those kind of players, but guess what? After about 10 GMT my area falls deathly quiet. Thus I can then attack and scout in relative peace.

Just deal with it and stop complaining. No one is gonna take pity on you when you complain and attack FF in the same post.

[freewill]

Well Freewill, it was a reply on the post given by the player with the name Billytrapper.

For your problem I need statistical information to give a clear answer about the impact on free2play versus pay2play. Maybe the difference is not that big but big enough to be noticed by people whom like to witch-hunt.

Well I can only make one statement about your personal situation Freewill and that is that FireFly failed to meet your level of satisfaction.

Statistical information? Do you pay for an advantage and the ability over other people? Yes. It's pay2win.

The only positive thing about the way it is would be that no amount of carding can make up for a lack of friends. But friends + carding sure can do alot.

Really, it's the principle of it at all. I for a moment consider dropping Ben down to keep up, then I realized I'd be supporting the business model, and I'd mostly be getting ripped off considering what I could spend the money on otherwise, so I just quit instead. I think it sucks that games are created these days without any care to the integrity of the game where all that matters to the gaming company is that they get paid. If that's a witch, so be it. The only course of action however is to not play the game.

[freewill]

With witch-hunt I mean that there are people who always try to find something negative and complain about it.

And statistical information is important. I do not know your level of education or age but trust me the first impression from your experience can give a totally different view from the actual numbers.

Of course people who buy cards or stacked up cards have an advantage I never said they did not have that advantage. Everyone has access to 14 cards a week at least for free.

You are questioning my education level while trying to make the claim that some kind of statistics which you theoretically think might prove the game is not pay2win trumps the users personal experiences?

LOL!

Here, let me make it simple.

If 2 players are otherwise equal in the game, and 1 of them pays more for extra cards, who wins? The guy who pays who paid the most. /end debate.

[Xolotl]

With witch-hunt I mean that there are people who always try to find something negative and complain about it.

And statistical information is important. I do not know your level of education or age but trust me the first impression from your experience can give a totally different view from the actual numbers.

Of course people who buy cards or stacked up cards have an advantage I never said they did not have that advantage. Everyone has access to 14 cards a week at least for free.

In order to get 14 cards per week, you would have needed to buy crowns, which I assure you, aren't free.

If you are like me, and don't pay at all, you are limited to only 3 cards per week

Xolotl

[countjimula]

If 2 players are otherwise equal in the game, and 1 of them pays more for extra cards, who wins? The guy who pays who paid the most. /end debate.

No, the player with the most allies will win. You are making a straw man saying in a world with only 2 players, this game requires that you have many allies to "win".

You would have a much better argument if you said this game is just a popularity contest. The players with the most help will win regardless of the money spent.

Saying that this is a play to win game is also a better argument than saying it is a pay to win game as the player who spends more time playing will have the advantage.

If paying money was such an advantage above other things, then why haven't I seen one faction created only of paying players in my two years of playing this game?

Most of the time it is an issue only when attacking players that we know are heavy card users. We attack those players in such a way that the cards would not be able to help them much at all, but it is not much different than the way we normally attack.

[FC_Groningen]

Why are you guys complaining about this? The developers will simply cash in all the money like they used to do. The carders either laugh or ignore these messages and continue to buy cards and the vast majority of the people cope with it and continue the game like they used to do. No game really comes for free.

[freewill]

For the folks who call this a pay2win game....what exactly does it mean to "win"?

Sure, you can pay to be at the top of the leaderboard, but so what, that is not winning. In my opinion, being at the top of the leaderboard is meaningless, so what's the big deal.

Spend less time complaining about the carders, and more time trying to make allies and organize those around you into a coherent group that works together, and I assure you, you will have greater success in the game and you'll enjoy it a lot more as well.

Pay2win is a generic term for games that sell advantages. If all else is equal, the person who pays the most will win, because they are buying the advantage.

[freewill]

If 2 players are otherwise equal in the game, and 1 of them pays more for extra cards, who wins? The guy who pays who paid the most. /end debate.

No, the player with the most allies will win. You are making a straw man saying in a world with only 2 players, this game requires that you have many allies to "win".

You would have a much better argument if you said this game is just a popularity contest. The players with the most help will win regardless of the money spent.

Saying that this is a play to win game is also a better argument than saying it is a pay to win game as the player who spends more time playing will have the advantage.

If paying money was such an advantage above other things, then why haven't I seen one faction created only of paying players in my two years of playing this game?

Most of the time it is an issue only when attacking players that we know are heavy card users. We attack those players in such a way that the cards would not be able to help them much at all, but it is not much different than the way we normally attack.

You simply do not understand what the term pay2win is, and you are merely creating your own strawman argument in the other extreme. I used the example of 2 people to show that if all other factors are equal, the person who paid the most wins.

If it is not an advantage as you are trying to claim - why would anyone pay for the cards to begin with. They wouldn't. The reason they pay for the cards is because it gives them an advantage. You can try to spin it anyway you want, but that's the fact of the matter.

[freewill]

Why are you guys complaining about this? The developers will simply cash in all the money like they used to do. The carders either laugh or ignore these messages and continue to buy cards and the vast majority of the people cope with it and continue the game like they used to do. No game really comes for free.

Don't mind paying for the game, I spent money on it as well with premium accounts and even used a little left over for cards. Money is not the issue. Money being a factor in gameplay is the issue, big difference.