
Originally Posted by
Pendragon47
What I really love about CoC as compared to other freemium games, this isn't "pay to win".
In other games I've played you can simply purchase tons of the premium currency (called rubies) in order to actually obtain bonus points or win events/fights. This inevitably led to those paying for rubies to always win the best prizes/equipment and further increase disparity between players who didn't purchase rubies and only tried to scrape by with what they counld obtain in the regular gameplay.
Where I think CoC excels is that sure you can expedite any building, upgrades, etc. but you can't use gems to actually win, you still need to spend the same amount of time in battles, in wars, and know at least decent stragety in order to succeed. For that reason anyone up there gets mny vote as a hero, regardless of how much $$ they may have used to help speed things up along the way.