Yet people spend over $100 on this game so funny

this is not a game you can win though, this is a never-ending online battle to be the best and to be the best you need to sacrifice. Have you ever heard of a king who got there with little to no effort?
Me neither, dont spend if you dont like it. I dont spend money and I am at peace with my position in the game

Hi and welcome to forum

As for your question Simply it is Not . you can still play totally free and enjoy many aspect of the game .

Lol pay to win, it's meaning the game is free to play or not this mod. Do you see how you see diamonds for everything ruines etc yeah okay. not only that you can use diamonds to get other items. you prolly wasted over $100 AND don't want to accept the fact

@PaytoWin please stay civil
@Haka-Taka is f2p and a great player and mod nobody forces anyone to pay real money, gems(diamonds) can be earned and dont need to be bought

@PaytoWin The vast majority of the games on Facebook are “Freemium” games. They are not created by non profit companies. They are companies that have bills, wages, benefits and other overhead costs. So, you get the option to spend or not spend. Your choice.

Of course i see diamonds for everything but diamonds themselves are offered in the game free

• 68 gem from dungeon a week . the next week is 80 so 148 gem every 2 weeks
• gems from timed challenge . work on your gold till you can get gem reward .buy x rune and use it to get gem reward from rune lord . this is at least 75 gems every 2 weeks -- assuming you end in top 5000 in gold fever and rune lord --
• gems from MW - if it works for you - , events , daily goals ,monthly calendar etc

Sure it will be slow a process .. what a cash player do in 1 second - buy x rune for example -- will take you a month of saving gems to save 345 gems and this is expected
If you decided to play ftp sure your progress will be slower but it is here . no logic in playing free and expecting same progress or power as cash ..

Another thing look at vip , nemesis and warmasters release

When vip came out for the first time sure f2p had hard times against them and there was a power gap .. this gap increased by nemesis release and both --vip and nemesis --were only for real money so saving gems is not helping here but sp corrected this with warmasters .. from the start they are available for both f2p and p2p and sure with cash you can unlock the full potential and get rank 5 but hey most of them are good at level 100 , Not to mention vip breeding events and nemesis cell dungeons ,, alot of f2p got those totally free !!!!so the game now balance things in f2p favor

@PaytoWin

Are you seriously asking why the game encourages players to pay? Daft question. My shares in TTWO would be pretty much junk otherwise.

@PaytoWin actually it's pay to get there faster.

Meanwhile Nemesis monsters are laughing in the background.

It’s called GREED Because SP has fallen in love with MONEY. Not sure if it’s SP or whomever bought them out although it began with SP & then became worse after buyout or merger whatever it was.
Although, I think will eventually subside as I watch more & more of my wealthy adult friends pulling out & im not far from it.
Then they can see how much they can get from kids who must ask mom & dad for money here & there. They had best find a way to reward loyalty & longevity & not one of the must pay to get your reward such as gem purchases get you all sorts of rewards these aren’t rewards they’re items you bought.

@esentis Really ? Try to get Warmasters without Orbs we all know how many of those are given out and at rate they are given out the Warmaster dungeons will be long gone years before you gather enough orbs to complete 1 dungeon.

@Nani3 Well technically it's still paying to get them faster..

@esentis It really is pay to get "there" faster, well atleast soon 2 years ago when i started playing this.
Now soon 2 years later and with all crazy changes and and whats going on i would more call it, Pay to have a chance get "there". But then again its all about what "there" means. As a ftp player i shouldnt compare myself with ptw if my goal is to be the best ftp. Therefor i can still get "there", eventually...in a nr of years XD.

But yes, it will always tecnically be pay to progress/get there faster.

@joohnzy haha I know what you mean The one thing I totally agree with is that the time needed to get "there" w/o paying is longer BUT the game is nowhere near pay to win (not strictly) unless you are willing to spend thousands of dollars (yes thousands) to get your 130 Nemesis monsters and X level runes. But even then the "win" is not guaranteed. Plus "winning" in such game is a vague statement. I see the monsters as my collection, like if I'm collecting stamps or coins ^^ At the end of the day it all comes to what you want from the game and what are your goals. If you want to be hardcore you have to pay (or let the time do its thing). Period. That's how the game is designed like it or not (unfortunately).

@esentis fully agreed, it really is all about making own goals to make this game fun and great as you say and the variables what that is can be so many as this game is very generous in giving gems for free. But if someone wants to be the strongest player in ml...well that aint cheap XD

And btw to me hardcore is to play this game ftp. Softcore is to get there faster or as in the game "Diablo 1 2 and 3" nothing happens when you die...lol

Closing this topic because it is something that has been discussed before like it is on constant repeat.