Gemstone Legends - Match 3 RPG

Was quite a lot of fun until you get to end game. Worst drop rates of any game like this I’ve played plus extreme hero specific content makes for massive bottleneck where most people seem to leave game. Wait until you get to the end game gear rolling…spoiler alert: it’s obvious they want to sell sub-roll resets.

This game has always had a very visible p2w aspect, but that goes with the territory. Despite this, it always had a reasonable offering for free players and a responsive and engaged dev team. When Stribog got acquired by Gamedesire though, things changed rapidly. The game is now an extreme cash grab catering to whales at the expense of everyone else. If you aren’t paying in $50/month or more you will not be even slightly competitive. Each event is designed to dangle rewards that you absolutely will not receive without your credit card. There are enough whales to keep the devs happy with this arrangement, and if you aren’t one of them your experience will suffer. Strongly recommend that you never get involved with this game or it’s insanely greedy publisher.

Soooo much fun to play!

Can’t pass the tuition, and can’t tap anywhere, maybe because there’s no artifacts in my bag so that I can’t equip it, therefore, give up Pity thank you so much for fixing the bug！

When picking one of the hero to add it won’t let me it just not working

Since I started playing this game not too long after it first started, they have been making it harder and harder to get what you need. New players quit after a week or so because when they start with very little it is extremely difficult to make any progress. The devs are extremely greedy and they think making it harder makes them more money. They are too stupid to realize they will get more money if they make the game more fun! They just made a change in the heroes that basically eliminates their ability to stun or freeze the enemy. When the enemy is stunned or frozen their turn is skipped. Other enemies that are charged with a passive ability used to not be able to use it as there was no turn but now their passive ability can be used even though there was no turn. This basically eliminates the whole purpose of stun and freeze. I am very close to quitting and I recommend you look elsewhere for a game that is much more fun than frustrating! They just released a new faction of heroes. They did not put in a rift to acquire dust to level up the heroes. When I asked how we get dust I was told you can buy it or use rainbow dust which is rare because you can only buy it or earn it in game events. Either the planning was very poor or they are very greedy! I commented that giving us the new heroes without giving us the normal method to level them up is like selling someone an electric car without a charger. If you think dealing with frustration and greed like this is fun. Get the app and see how long it takes before you realize IT IS NOT FUN!

The good: Very few bugs affecting gameplay Heavy strategizing, less luck in battles: you and enemies use the same board and all tiles do damage. Lots of chances for high rarity summons, and diamonds are easier to come by. In e&p titans and other things only drop 1-10 diamonds every two hours. Guild bosses drop 75! And with it only costing 400 for a 3-pull… The bad: ads are not worth it. In e&p they can drop high-rarity loot. In this game all they drop is gold and energy. Events are pay-to-win. It is extremely difficult to reach the required point totals as a f2p. In e&p, if you’ve got the heroes you are probably going to beat the event.

While the game play is really quite fun, there are some issues that make it not a five star for me. Your mileage may vary. The energy mechanic is so over with for most games like this. That’s an auto deduction of a star for me. Let people play when they can and not play when they can’t. The endless pop-ups for the zillion different packs is super annoying. The interface is a little sketchy. There is a lot of rng dependence. There are way too many moving parts… meaning complexity for complexity sake. A couple days in and the “events” feel a bit spendy. These issues are not as bad as I’ve seen in some games, but they are there, and that’s where I deduct another star. If you can be patient and relax, it’s a very enjoyable game, though! Especially for the type of person who doesn’t mind a little spending here and there. I think FTP would be rough unless you are super relaxed about it. So I recommend for light-heavy spenders who don’t mind dismissing pop ups and a sub optimal interface. I can also recommend for ftp people who don’t care much about getting anywhere but just want fun mechanics.

Update: 8 months in, I’ve dropped my spending rate on this game but it seems all the improvements are pushing to reward the P2W players. The Path of Destiny only expounds the need to spend to advance in the game. While it forces the player to progress, they push you right into a brick wall in Inferno that you can’t beat unless you have the most advanced and best heroes. Yet this is the game campaign? Latest update is supposed to add improvements, but bugs are only thing I’ve noticed: crashes, glitches, lagging server response, all while the new features are not explained but drastically change gameplay. At this rate, I’ll play until I feel I’ve recouped my expenditures as F2P and then drop it altogether like E&P. Six months of hoping it breaks the match 3 mold, but the problems with their “random” number generator for summoning heroes and upgrading items is absolute trash. Constant duplicate heroes, and the waste of resources needed to upgrade artifacts easily takes away any enjoyment to the game. Read their developer responses in Discord to gameplay improvement and they admit they don’t care about improving the experience of players. Grinding becomes monotonous, and the events only reward the pay to play members. Not recommended unless you want to dedicate majority of your day to playing and are willing to open your wallet wide.

This game is terrible because so many typos occur in the game chat. I am tired of the mistakes of the keyboard. It makes the game very difficult understand alliance mates. Fix it now! Stop bring out new heroes until you fix the keyboard issue!!