Empire Four Kingdoms

I have played this game for more than 10 years. Originally it was so much fun and things were pretty even but as time went on the Developers began to cater to a select group of players who spent the big bucks. Recently a large group of these big buck players were found to be cheating literally obtaining millions and in some cases billions of items they did not build or pay for (these figures are not mine but from the developers) Sure the developers were outraged and ranted about cheating on and on. After their investigation a large group of players were ejected from the game and their accounts were to be banned forever. Oh wait…the cheaters just happened to be a large group of big $$$ players…ooops. The developers naturally followed up on their outrage and threats and suspended these players SEVERELY for a week or so and then the big $$$ spenders were reinstated with a request: “please don’t cheat again because you make us look weak, and untrustworthy and like complete money grubbing hypocrites.” Now there is no fairness in the game and if you need help from the developers, they really don’t have time for the average player. Players have left by the hundreds but that no longer matters either. If you start playing, you’ll have fun for a little while but once you advance to higher levels you’ll get swallowed up by players who spend spend spend…

I have played this game for almost a decade now. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on rubies and equipment. The game USE to be so much fun, I would spend countless hours on it day and night! To say less I suppose it was addictive! But then everything changes, is not the game I use to know, and love. I log on every now and then to see old friends, in my case most of them are gone. And it seems each time I get online it’s a whole new game! Or shall i say new things to just spend money on. I wish they would come out with a E4K classic addition. Wow! That’s odd to say haha! Anyway I remember a time when things were simpler, and fun now if I go full time I’d have to practically go to night school just to learn all the new stuff. Just a headache! And not worth it. To all new comers, just turn around.

This game is great without a doubt I have had an amazing time playing it with fellow friends and alliance members and it is a fun experience. However this game is a subtle pay to win game. People with the cash buy the better commanders, casts and armies/ tools to better their opponents. With new events coming in such as beyond the horizon this game has tilted the scale even further towards pay to win players. These people can simply buy whatever they need win the event and collect the new relic buildings and build items in order to further expand their power. I come from US2 and one or two groups literally own the entire server and it’s ridiculous. Good game studios continues to do this crap in all of their games though and that is what will be the downfall of the game. One more note, the lack of pvp in this game is terrible. Everyone either protects each other or has some no hit policy in store that constantly results in any one alliance getting out of hand to be put back into a peaceful utopia. It’s a war game not build your castle simulator everyone should be fighting, but as I said earlier no one wants to fight because they will only lose what they have paid for. Overall not a bad game but everyday it slowly gets worse and the developers aren’t helping with their new ideas.