I have been playing for a year and lead one of them to 10 alliances in this game. This is a much more blatant cadh-grab than most of the games in the business model. You get the most anemic trickle of progression for free, but if you want to compete at all, you are forced to spend, and spend HUGE. Players are dropping thousands every two weeks for new overpowered heroes that are only available for a limited time and then disappear for months until the developers decide to make them available for a short amount of time again. Oh and of course the drop rates are rigged, forcing you to wade through hundreds and hundreds of dollars to get the hero, let alone their subsequent 5 awakenings. If you have $100,000 off completely disposable income, you will be ready to compete here. If you want to test your skill without spending anything, dismiss the PvP portion of this game completely. At that point, you are left with the campaign, which will take you longer to complete than this game has left before it is pulled by the developers so that they can focus on more profitable ventures. Any and all feedback from the community is completely ignored by the development team, who respond by releasing more options for spending money through buggy updates. Players are quitting more than joining as of the date of this review. Do yourself a favor and stay away!

The game is fun and beautiful to play, and has new updates every 2 weeks introducing new heroes. That may sound great, but in practice in costs a player well over $1000 to obtain the latest hero with all their awakening skills. Then you’ll need a weapon, well actually 5 for a team, that’s going to cost another $500. Then you’ll need energy just to play levels, a battle pass, talents skill points, dragon master points, runes and many other things that all cost money. Oh also just about everything is RNG meaning you will have many instances of just getting junk items for 1 good item. You could easily spend $10,000 usd in game and would still only be mediocre in strength. If wasting that amount of cash on a mobile game sounds appealing, then this is your game! Just don’t expect seemless updates, since every single update released over the last year has had some bug issue that needs immediate attention. Lastly, they devs of the game will present events such as the 1 year anniversary event, where the “gifts” are only available for a price. This game is really only fun for those with large amounts of disposable income.

I would 5-star this game all day except for the insane in game economy exchange rates. The game is fun and the collecting is enjoyable. I've spent plenty of real $$ on this game and it always felt reasonable, but I've stepped back to free play what I can. Oddly some things are quite reasonable time/value to gain, but also some of the loot is just bonkers cost wise. I've free gained 6 gold characters and several legendary items, which is amazing! But 1 single mythic item seems like it would take 2+ years to obtain free (if not more) and yet $100 to buy, when enough materials to summon 2 new gold characters is also only about $100. Similarly, been doing the 1 free weekly wish for a year now and not once got an epic weapon, but you can guarantee 1 drop with $50. But I could buy mats to craft one for just $25. it's kind of all over the place. If they rebalanced the economy, I might consider occasional buys, but it just seems a bit too greedy for no reason when the game would be more addictive otherwise.