This game is great! Super fun turn based combat. Amazing visuals and graphics. Carefully thought out champions and abilities. However, obviously very pay to win. That is understandable considering the developers must make money somehow, but many aspects of the game are limited to waiting for timers to end. For example, waiting for more loot tokens, waiting for quests to finish, watching for new goals to get coins, etc. It gets to the point where any additional battle reaps no rewards. If you want to make a fun game, you shouldn’t limit the amount people are allowed to play. The market place is fine, it’s okay to have an app that is pay to win. That’s how developers make a living. However, there should be ways to achieve things you want without having to pay for them. Look at games like Warframe which has allowed players to play however long they want to farm, but also have the option to pay for the things they need to farm. When a game doesn’t allow me to farm even for coins, that is an issue. The market place can stay, but the addition of some sort of endless wave mode that would allow for players to earn coins independent of crowns and wait times would make this a top tier game. This would help eradicate any sort of halt in progress, and have players keep coming back.

This game is great, love the strategy/team builder genre and I feel this game nails it, but at the same time the P2W aspect(which let’s admit is to be expected), is just a little too much, there should be a limit to it or a certain extent to the feature, but it’s basically whoever has money has the strongest characters without the slightest effort in earning them...if you’re trying to cater to the people and have a good player base try to respect all players not just the ones willing to throw their wallets at you, that’s what most p2w games fail in...but otherwise I really enjoy the game and seem to be doing well for someone that doesn’t buy their way to victory.Edit: Getting further and diving deeper into the game, seeing my commitment paying off with time, but still worry about the p2w, since I’ve played I haven’t rolled 1 legendary hero through gold keys or any other possible keys, just seems like it’s catered to those who spend the money, same with the events...the rich just keep getting things handed to them, while the free players have no chance in competing in the events for top positions/rewards.

Graphics are great, game play is simple & fun. While there is the pay to play component, it’s not necessary & you can participate anywhere from free to heavily invested. I would say to developers though that some high end character prices are insane imo, I personally wait until those can be won even though I’ve paid plenty to support the game myself (including monthly & weekly) because I really like it & have no problem paying for my entertainment or supporting artists; including games. There’s enough variation to keep you entertained & I’ve found that I’ve picked this game back up after a pause a couple times. The original creators apparently recently reacquired the rights to the game & content so hopefully game play will improve even more. I’d love to see new characters & fresh ideas or challenges. Customer service with issues can also be improved, while they always fix issues, always compensate players for inconvenience on crashes or major glitches, their individual communication has always been awful. Overall though, it’s a great game & I don’t feel like it’s greedy like most p2p games out there, I feel like I get my money’s worth for my choices, which is saying something.

The gameplay and design are really quite beautiful, but there are so many manipulative cash grabs it isn’t worth it. First, the “loot tokens” system is a transparent attempt to entice microtransactions. This is one of those games I gladly would have paid up front for, but the way they keep trying to force in app purchases just to progress has really turned me off to the whole game. Additionally, after the 4th zone the difficulty jumps dramatically to the point where I truly believe it impossible to beat even on easy...without spending real money for heroes better than any you can otherwise get. I’ve spent hours buying dozens of silver keys for 3000 gold and leveling up the best heroes I was given and I’m still ~100 power short of being on even footing. The upgrade costs to unlock heroes skills or raise their rarity are quite high too, considering even when you do have the tokens to replay, you get at most 140 gold for a run through, and skills are 2-8k to unlock. Not to mention the arena system matches you with players radically stronger than yourself - another attempt to get you to pay to win. Really sad to see a game with this much potential ruined in this way. On a technical note, a way should be added to hide or remove heroes you don’t want; the heroes page can feel quite cluttered with weak heroes you have no use for after a while