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.