Game of Thrones: Conquest ™

Don’t get me wrong. I have fun playing this game. I’m still playing it now. I’ve just come to realize that by the time you get to the rank that everybody is when a PVP event comes around the winners always going to be a play player. It’s hard. The game is fun and very enjoyable, they give you free things in the beginning give you enough food to upgrade everything they give you the option to get stuff upgraded for free but eventually you hit a point where you’re gonna need like 10 million of everything to level up your keep at that point you can’t even compete with the players that are level 26 by week two because they pay for everything the honest truth about this game is have fun but the only way you’re going to be able to do it is by paying to play the people that call you baby and tell you to stop whining when you voice that in chat you can have fun by not paying and be behind everyone else and make no progress capture no seats or you can pay money to advance and at some point you’re going to have to it’s just a hard truth if you wanna play and enjoy the game you’re going to just have to pay and even when you do pay you just have to keep paying more and more to the point where you’re 5000 dollars in and you haven’t even reached level 20 I don’t know I’m not saying that the game is bad. I’m just saying it’s a money pit.

Update- wrote original review a couple of years ago. There used to be a way to work the events so even strict f2p, you could be patient, run completely counter to most clans’ clueless big spenders’ idea of f2p advice and work the events and still build an account strong enough to have fun for about a year with. Whether it’s due to just the sheer volume of new gear sets every month and repeat players literally dropping $100k or so in the first months to max early, or if the game devs messed with the probabilities under the hood, it’s no longer possible. You can get a middling account at best and somewhat keep pace, but it’s hard to participate in pvp gameplay that way even if you know what you’re doing. You can have fun without spending a fortune only for about a month or until the first recap month, and then it’s toast when people in your first merge kingdom catch the stats of people in 7 year old kingdoms. It’s ridiculous. Old review- still valid: Not only is this game an utterly shameless money grab that makes no effort whatsoever to correct for major imbalances, WB Games recently allowed their own personal transactional system mistake to be massively exploited, then did absolutely nothing to correct for the resulting major imbalances in events and gameplay, completely screwing people who behaved normally. This app does not deserve your time or money, which it will try to get both of in copious quantities.

Your choice is simple: Spend little or nothing and be food for others who do pay, spend a small fortune and manage to exist and be food for the big spenders, or be a big spender and find out that the only way to stay there is to keep on spending big. They even have an event called the iron bank, where the ONLY way to make any progress in the event is to directly spend money. I get the pay to win model. Most games have some balance to it. This one has none. Heck, you can spend $33,000 on your account and STILL not get the T30 keep. I know this directly. My choice.. no blame, but have an idea of what you need to spend if you’re going to be a “big dog”. My review isn’t about things costing money. It’s the amount of money, and that EVERYTHING costs money to move on. It also uses the lure and hook model. Everything starts off great.. fast building, fast troops, quick research.. but quickly runs into a wall of must spend. The game is also full of bugs and glitches that seem to only be getting worse with time, not better. The problem with this is compounded with the costing model since one crash at a bad time can cost you real $$. Horrendously expensive garbage.