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The game has its positives, especially the card-design and the generous rewards. But those strenghts are, by far, outweighted by the many negatives.
Starting with the game engine, everything feels terribly dated and clunky. It is an old game, that was poorly coded, and is missing many features and the comfort that we are used to.
More meaningful, though, is the card-pool and the resulting decks. I found the card-pool to be poorly balanced, and poorly designed. On higher levels, you will be paired against the same broken decks continuously, against which a new player wont stand any chance. Especially, since SE is missing a crafting-mechanic, which leads to clear pay2win mechanics, as certain cards must be sold by players to be available on the ingame-market.
Needles to say, the strongest cards are always sold-out, and therefore are not available for free players, and locked behind a paywall. Personally, ive spent 70€, to get access to certain key-cards, but i still am missing too many of them, to be able to compete without disadvantages, and it really annoys me, how unbalanced and broken many cards and combos are.
In fact, i realized that my mood gets bad when i play Shadow Era, and it took over on my real life- which is completely unacceptable!
Which isnt just the game's fault, but also that of the community, which, in total, is unmature and respectless. The few players that remain, are mostly arrogant wannabe's, and the owner does nothing against it, even if he is present in the chat.
I kept trying to find a reason to justify my purchases. To the point, where i didnt find any single reason to keep playing, and i quit very disappointed. With everything the game has to offer.
From me, a undoubtful thumbs down. There are far better and rewarding CCG's out there...
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