Board Thread:Game Discussions/@comment-5307574-20140318072814/@comment-24108837-20140321234304

The fun thing being of course, that because ranking high in the game is caused by gemming and not by superior skill or strength, the epic they get will not help them in any way.

You can not choose your opponents in the game. In the guild war you just get one, and in the arena you get a list to choose from. In both cases opponents were selected because they match your strength in some way. That means if you get stronger you will get stronger opponents, and consequently your epic will not get you more points, but stronger adversaries.

The fun is that a modestly weak player can easily get a similar ranking as a very strong player, because his opponents will be weaker as well.

Obviously Gree does not want only strong and skilled players to spend money, but everybody. So they will have to give everybody a feeling they can be top of the list if they just spend a few more gems. The whole system is aimed at that.