If yo read my review I promise you will…
If you read my review I promise you will get a thorough analysis of GTarcade, their philosophy and pros and cons so you can make up your own mind if you want to play their games. I will be honest their GOT game is well designed and exciting to play with a now relatively acceptable customer support. However, having read the reviews and forums from their previous games and after spending over 2.5k USD I have come to the conclusion that this type of game is just not for me and I plan to steer as far clear from their games as I can in the future. So I hope my review tells you at least why I think you should not waste your time on their games. I prefix this by saying I have grown up gaming like much of my generation. One game I want to mention as an example is WoW. Thanks to WoW spending money regularly for a good fun was not a foreign concept to me. After all if I could spend 13 USD as a kid, why not spend more money monthly as an adult for a great lore-based fun. However, this is where the similarities end, where WoW introduced the idea of monthly payments and later micro transactions, it also offered a heroic effort to create meaningful content, it stuck to a sensical and powerful role and formed a cohesive community. in GOT, with my large investment which dwarfs my expenditure as a teen by 100s of times over... I am still more of a mid tier player regardless of how well I learn the game mechanics. The game lore makes no sense, characters have no meaningful progress or story that can spark the imagination. No sense of belonging to a faction or an effort. The alliances, AC, AM, castle sieges and etc. all fail rather miserably at creating a sense of community. All of it is overshadowed by the constant begging for more money at every turn. Nowadays, I feel like it has become a chore, where I spend even more money try to dodge rigged lottery systems and cash grabs and I really do not enjoy anything the game has to offer. Where most games require a fixed expenditure and then rely on your ability to learn the game to reward you for that dopamine rush that comes with achievement, GTarcade games have all the intricacies a well made game mechanic, but then over turn it at every single step by allowing money veto everything. Therefore, as a player, the more I played the more I felt that I am playing just to recoup some sort of value. Yes learning the complicated battle mechanics allowed for a more deadly attack or efficient defence but at the end of the day it comes down to the raw numbers. There is always someone who understands the game mechanics just as well as you do but has spent twice the amount of money to beat you. At that point, skills and understanding are meaningless, it is a just a race to see who can spend more. This is not to say that skills and game mechanics are lacking in their games. To their credit a big spender who does not understand the game or learn can spend thousands of dollars and lose them in a heartbeat. This is the main reason that I don't categorize their games as a "scam". The other issue with the philosophy of the company is their level concern for the community. As other reviewers have stated, they seem too focused on milking money at every opportunity. The devs never try to explain any shortcoming, mistake or bug directly. There is constant new features but they all have only one thing in common, They require you to spend more and more money to achieve any meaningful results. So in a way it is obvious to make sure that your spending never plateaus or slows down. On top of that, there is a lot of shady stuff going, players that got to 800M power over a few nights and then went inactive after sending the whole server on a spending spree.... We all thought this was odd on our server. If you do not know how the game shop works, the general trend is the more packs you buy the less value you get for more money. For example a 5 dollar pack gives you more value dollar for dollar than the next tier which is a 10-20 dollar pack etc. Therefore for someone to have that type of growth, over that period of time, they must have spent tens of thousands of dollars, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and then quit cold turkey. Strange, right? What kind of person can drop that kind of money and then just walk away? Fast forward and now looking at reviews from their previous games I ran into many people complaining about devs making overpowered accounts to crush real players and make them spend more money. Now all of the sudden the whole thing makes perfect sense. While technically not a scam, you can see how this is just despicable behaviour. There is a lot of skill and knowledge required to play the game well, which is an appeal however what I mentioned above and the whole fixed attitude on money making makes their games a joke to real gamers and gamer community. It is a shame. There are just so many far better games that offer more relaxing fun at a fraction of money required to play this game competitively. Spend that 5k you are planning to spend on this game to buy a state of art gaming PC and you will have a lot more fun, I guarantee it.