Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders +12

Nicely done

A good WWII airplane game. Graphics are good but there are so many more missions and planes that could be added that the possibilities are almost endless! Good control options and if you have any other sky gambler games, this one is worth the price. Also, I got the weapons pack and you should be able to customize the loadout for each specific variant, not every single plane.

Personal experience

The game is certainly a good game. The gaming community is active. However there are two problems in the game. 1. Ace airplanes(the ones that you need to buy with money) are too strong and it broke the balance when play in multiple players. For example, P-47 this plane’s structure are too high that it take about 2times of the damage that a regular plane do. This had become a big problem because players who have this plane likes the play head to head tactic(when two air planes fly towards each other and shooting each other, an exchange of hp), when play this tactic it is guaranteed that the P-47 will win, which is breaking the balance. And when one player play this tactic to another player, the other player must play the same thing otherwise his tail will be bait on by the P-47. As a result of this, player that have P-47 will easily win. In conclusion, the Ace airplanes are over powered they need to be weakened to balance the game. 2. I cannot find a place in the game to report another player. This problem is not only in StormRaiders but also in all other game made by sky gamblers. As a result of this, when play in multiplayer you may curse all you want and there will have no penalty given.

Game has changed

Not sure what the issue is but it seems like all there is lately are high level players where they shoot you with one bullet and your dead. Hardly anyone seems to play anymore. Just the same top players or bots just dominate the scene where it’s not skill based anymore it’s just ranking. Becomes impossible to obtain ranking in such a system and ruins the game for all. They should have a scenario where everyone fly’s the same plane and it’s just skill based or offer a year plan say for $5.00 and just let people play on equal footing would probably make more money.

I received response from developer complaining that the game is 8 years old and how I can expect people to still, play. Crazy concept chess is a 1000 years old people play. Risk online is old people still play but these games aren’t pay to win. They found a business model where it’s still skill based and the company still makes money and continued making improvements on the existing game. Instead some game company’s now just make a new version of the old game so they can charge again until that game is dead too then make a 3rd version repeat and so on.

Resposta do desenvolvedor ,

Hi! The game is at least eight years old, how do you expect people to still play after all this time? There are no bots in-game. How can you say it's not skill-based anymore when you yourself stated that only top players are playing the game?