No_Username wrote:When are you going to add the gem shop?
It wasn't in the first Kingdom Rush Steam and I doubt that it'll be on this one. The game is completely beatable without it, and the shop is related to in-app purchases, which Ironhide does not want even
near their Steam games. Besides, there as only extra gold, extra hearts, an enemy freeze, dynamite, a blizzard, and a bomb that literally killed everything. It would make the game way too easy, and this would actually suck for the bad players. The bad players would grind on the easy levels over and over again just to get a few gems for the later levels. The grinding would actually make the players tired of the game and not want to play it anymore. Instead, players are forced to learn to beat the levels without the shop. I'm sorry if this sounds all jumbled up (I typed this all at one time without bothering to edit), but my strong opinion is that the gem shop is not necessary and seems to even take away from the game.
Besides, it's been confirmed that it's not being added with Tats saying on the Steam discussion:
The_Tats wrote:We decided it was best to remove the Gnome Shop and the gems altogether to make sure everyone knew that the Steam version was released without In App Purchases.
And we used the same criteria for KRF.
It is true, that by removing the items from the Gnome Shop, there are fewer interactions with the game since your tactical options are reduced a little bit.
We don't feel the items from the gnome shop are really all that important... we always designed our games in such a way that any level can be completed (altough not always with a perfect score) without using the consumable items or purchaseable heroes. That's where we always draw the line.
So, we understand if you or anyone else is frustrated for refusing to include the gems and the gnome shop... but we don't agree with the notion that we haven't put a lot of work into this version or any of our other games. We work hard to release games that we can be proud of.