Lord Sidey – Sadness Ensues…

Over 3 years ago I started Playing Game Of War, when a Million XP was huge achievement. When Crafting custom pieces (not even cores), and custom cores was the power of the game. Strategy. I enjoyed studying the game, researching tactics outside the game, chatting with others about how to STRATEGICALLY advance within the game. As time progressed, purchases kept getting larger. First was a simple 4.99 pack. Then the 9.99 pack to get the same amount of items, to upgrade my buildings to level 10, then 15. To reach hero level 20 it took 49.99 but felt it was not any more benefit than when it was 4.99.
In order to continue to enjoy playing this game, I reached 99.99 packs, sometimes 199.99 packs just to get close to full research. Just to have MZ come out with another research tree. Over and over never quite being able to reach what is considered to be a “big” status within the kingdom. To be able to take hits from rallies and more.
Spending between 100 and 400 per week for my enjoyment should have allowed me to reach such status yet the MZ releases began to accelerate and packs began to help less and less. Then the Billion status was fast approaching, trillion, now KT. It has gotten to the point that the game is not fun anymore, customs are useless, fully researched is useless, defense and health strategies have become useless too. As an experienced player of the game many others turned towards me and others to advise them within the game. To do things like monster events within a KE to help our kingdom, to learning to solo other players and taking that first hero; to joining their first rally. As a leader of 4 alliances that work together to better its players, i spend alot of time working with others. I went from leader of a family group that had become close spending alot of time learning and working together to simply a target. Over 20 percent of our Family of alliances have already left the game.
If I was going to continue as their leader I had to try. I just had to take on the powerful MZ. To try to make MZ listen to its players once again. I started learning about a movement that wanted to get MZ to change its status quo. I learned alot about what was happening and got in very deeply involved. While i am not willing to identify how involved I am within the movement and the GoW Union. I want to clarify and express, my purpose and goal. I enjoy Game of War, I want to salvage what is left of our family, I want to be able to spend money enjoying the game again, but it needs to be valued, not hiding behind false pretenses, mis-represented packs, and purchases that won’t be devalued in days. I don’t want to see the money I spend in game wasted and squandered away just trying to be a big player to help unite our kingdom in battles. Bring back things for the smaller players, bring back fair battles, trap configurations, hero executions. All of these are very doable and let the update releases happen at a slower pace so that people that spend a reasonable ($50-200 a month or less) can spend and actually unshield to try their configurations they worked so hard to build. Bring Strategy back to Game of War, make it a Game of War, not a Game of Wallets..