Leave a Review Gladiator Heroes Arena Legends
Warning Review: Pay To Play, Pay More To Win...
I’ve been playing this game for a good while and have learned this developers trick at making the user pay to enjoy the game. 1st of all they make you wait a lot. Battles result in gladiators getting hurt. Then you put them in a hospital for a long time. But here is the kicker there is a VIP mode where you can pay $6.99 for a 50% reduction in wait times. Also you can spend your hard earned cash to buy Red Gems (in game currency) and apply that towards healing your gladiators quickly so you can actually play the game. Also building structures is very time consuming but again VIP mode allows you to build two structures at the same time.... this game unfortunately just finds several ways to make you spend money.... (The list is Endless at how much money you gotta spend to play this game how you expect to). Apple Please Work On Eliminating or Reducing the Madness That Is “Pay To Win” & Now With Games Like This “Pay To Just Play Without Waiting All Day” it’s not fun to be digitally manipulated... Game developers are going to go down like bankers did back in the recession but not for fraud but Psychological Manipulation of the audience to convert them into a dependent paying customer...Show lessSuperCyberGhostUser
Love it, can always get better.
Love the game, always was fascinated by gladiators and the way this game plays is perfect. Strategy and action combined, played it about a year ago but go bored and came back to it and it has gotten better. Only thing as of now I’d like to see is to be able to trade resources somehow, possibly put up bids for other players who need it to buy? Game freezes if you use a skill right before your gladiator dies, the dodge skill and n a dual blade wielder doesn’t work at times, says its active on them but you still get hit, and no the gladiator is not near a wall or an object.Show lessgftsfc
Money farmer
Check out the other reviews - This one is a pretty basic "clock hostage" money farmer. It isn't pay-to-play in the strictest technical sense, but in terms of practicality yes, it is in fact pay-to-play. The developers vomit up impediment after impediment after impediment to make your progress absurdly slow -- and if you DO pay, it is only very marginally less slow and full of obstructions. And on top of all that, the VIP system, which in most other MMO games like this are simply purchased 30 days at a time, these guys do the subscription model, just to make it that much little bit harder to stop giving them money.
These are the actions of folks who have no interest in providing a fun gaming experince that makes you WANT to support the devs. Rather, they do the bare minimum required to try to get people to throw some money at them, and play the numbers game. This one is not worth your time, and above all it is *NOT* worth giving them a single penny.Show lessLoganWolfsbane
Bad service with buggy game.
First off. I wasted 70 gems on the spin wheel! 70!!! 35+35. Each for a chance to get my items back from landing on skull. But no. The game decides to freeze and crash so I then have to reopen the game only to find my gems gone and none of the items in the spin wheel in my possession. It’s unfair that I suffer from this horrible bug in the game and when I try to contact support. I get nothing but a “thank you for contacting us. We are looking into the bug” uhhh are you going to refund me those gems I wasted on your buggy game!? This gets a one star until I get a refund of some sorts and an apology.Show lessPrimevil657
Completely Pay to Play
This game is almost completely pay to play. Your Gladiators, no matter how strong are put up against Ai that is always way stronger and smarter than yours. You Earn Gold through matches but it is completely unbalanced because of the amount of Gold and time it takes to even heal your gladiators, making progress in the game painfully slow...and I Mean days upon days at a time. You may ended up playing 3 to 4 matches a day before you have to sit completely idle for hours and hours since you Need your gladiators to heal in order for you to earn a tiny bit of gold...which is then spent again on healing in-turn frustrating you to the point of using the tiny amount of crystals you obtain. This game has a lot of potential but currently it is more frustrating than fun. If you plan on throwing cash into the game just to slightly improve and then have to throw more real cash to Stay a float. By all means have fun. Otherwise...stay away until improvements are made. You’ve Been Warned...Show lessPapiPanopti
Please fix!!!!!
I have been patiently waiting over 2 months for training boosters to be fixed because I don’t have the time every day to play and keep every single Gladiator at max training. I have invested a good sum of money into this game and am getting more frustrated with each day. I’ve contacted support several, several times about this issue and they have done nothing but say “the issue will be fixed soon.” 2+ months later and nothing. I thoroughly enjoy playing this game and still enjoy continuing to play but this issue needs to be resolved ASAP! For this reason alone, I give the game 3/5. I understand the support team is in Spain and therefore operate on a different time zone and because of that, often take a while to respond but this issue has been ongoing for several months and is making the game nearly unplayable. PLEASE FIXShow lessCuse12orange
Not as good as could be.
This game is almost 2 years old and still has way too many bugs. The developers are aware but are angling their updates towards rewarding the pay to win crowd. I and many others have quit playing out of frustration due to numerous crashes and other issues that should have been fixed in the developmental stage. I returned after being asked to by my alliance members after not even looking at the game in 6 months. It hasnt changed, not for the better. When contacted the game developers reply fairly quickly, and are professional in their reply, but seem to have no interest in addressing the issues that have plagued this game since its conception.Show lessFallen pro
No in game support
Two weekends in a row in game support refuses to help with an issue last week they had an issue in their purchasing that locked my Tunes account and suggested I restart my phone... I contacted iTunes and they corrected in ten minutes. This week their item which is supposed to keep you from losing training levels lowered all my gladiators to no training I sent a support ticket and they said we had to wait for the item to wear off... three days before they can fix my account. I’m in a clan war and there’s an event this weekend I can’t take part in because these guys won’t just fix their game. I’m going to be opening a ticket with iTunes to try and get all my spending refunded if they don’t at least try to make his right. They finally responded saying they have a small team but still don’t offer a solution... It’s funny the answered the original post in under two minutes but won’t answer again for I’ve 24 hours... they obviously don’t care about the game only taking what money they can get from their customers. I have asked iTunes for a refund on all purchases and am waiting on the paperwork.Show lessKIGHTj
Update-Do not spend money on this game
I never write reviews and I rarely spend money, but after my experience with this game I had to warn others.
I’ve played a lot of free to play games, and in the early stages, this game is fun and engaging. Once headquarters reaches level 10, and your gladiators hit level 3 the game becomes almost unplayable.
It’s fine if you can win your matches, but every loss cost you so much in gold to heal your fighters that you quickly go broke with no means of making gold fast.
A lot of potential, and I really do enjoy the mechanics, but I can’t recommend a game that hits the pay wall so hard.
UPDATE: Do not spend money on this game. After powering through the multiple issues/bugs, because I really do love the game, my son inadvertently deleted the game. If there is an issue and the game is deleted/corrupted the Devs will not keep record of your account unless it is linked to Facebook. I recently had an issue after the Xmas update and lost all my info and I now have lost many hours and dollars worth of work and will not receive an update on my account for a lengthy time. Unacceptable.
At this point I have lost everything and have no recourse to regain my lost time or money. Very disappointed in the Devs for their lack of accountability.Show lessSmahon27
Shovelware P2W garbage
I play a lot of Freemium games, if I like the game I see how far 20 bucks gets me. For this trash-heap that’s about an hour in. AI is buggy and cheap, unless you cough up the cash. PVP favors whales of course, and at higher levels they can raid and steal all your building supplies unless you pay a “shield” tax that costs real money.
As if all that wasn’t enough, in addition to pay-to-win the game uses long timers on everything weather you are a whale or not so you get to enjoy not playing and watching timers count down.
The same exact amount of fun with this game can be had opening up your timer app while sitting on a sewer grate with a handful of quarters. Set a timer, and if you get bored looking at it throw a handful of quarters into the grate and then reset the timer.Show lessPoxclause
