I’m going to be nice and start here I don’t have a way of uploading screenshots but as soon as I find a way I’m going to be posting this everywhere this game is unacceptably prejudice and broken I’ve been doing research taking a screenshots and it is undeniable that if you don’t spend money in this game after a certain point whether it be the dungeons whether it be trying to get more of the metals it doesn’t matter what you’re doing the game literally starts giving the NPCs more money and changing units and unit timings specifically to counter you to provoke you into spending more money I have another group of friends who have been doing the same thing and they have unequivocal evidence that if you spend money the dungeons the raids and everything else is easier to complete and I don’t mean in the common sense of course you’re spending money and upgrading your units I mean the NPCs the bots that you play against are fundamentally worse if you spend money I have seen the MPCs literally have chickens on gnomergan the first boss chickens going down one way when they say I have arthis with a headhunter and down the other lane I’ve got an abomination and somehow even though I control the middle of both gold mines and both chests the NPC manages to summon three of the suicide bombing gnomes two different bears and the chickens change midterm mid-direction to go and kill my arthas instead of getting one shot by my abomination with AOE it’s literally unplayable and it gets worse and worse and worse until you are willing to spend money 90% of the units that I’m using on my team or three to two levels higher then what I’m fighting yet I am getting one to two shot with special abilities that come with doing the dungeons it’s simply put that unless you spend money you get punished I literally have no choice but to stop playing this game for sometimes up to 2 to 3 months at a time and only then can I play for maybe a day but as soon as I get somehow caught up or start s******* on all the current content I get immediately destroyed by the dungeon that I was farming even though I’m still higher level than it this is just a general ramp post I plan on making a compiled document of evidence with everything me and my group of friends have found with the spending money and not spending money to call this out because I know that this is without a doubt illegal and I demand something to be done about it it’s one thing that you’re going have hidden levels and hidden difficulty spikes as well as not claiming what units are going to be there so you can just pretend that this isn’t happening but I have screenshots I have videos I have evidence that’s one thing because skill can overcome that if you’re good at strategy games and grinding what skill can’t f****** overcome is when you are literally unable to do anything because the NPCs are getting more money than is physically possible and before you try to b******* me I would like to again state that gnomergon map controlling both gold mines and both chests having literally all of the income on that entire with all three lanes pushing a literal easy steamroll victory and then all of a sudden three suicide bombing gnomes two mountaineers two sets of chickens explain to me where the money came from it wasn’t in overtime yet it was a steamroll victory and yet all of my units are dead and let’s not forget that these are the dungeons so all the stupid bosses have b******* mechanics anyways like being able to throw your units off the map for an insta kill so no there is absolutely no feasible excuse that you can come up with these mechanics are predatory and they force you into spending money and something needs to be done about it a statement or something otherwise I am going to compile all the evidence and put it out for everybody and I’m 99.9% willing to bet that this is going to turn into a lawsuit and if you guys want to be sued be my guest blizzard quick little update just ask one of my European friends and apparently this violates a lot and I mean a lot of rules so there’s a pretty big chance that this game will be getting taken down in Europe not going to lie normally I would not care about a phone game but the fact that they have these blatant hidden mechanics for event you from progressing because you won’t spend money and the funny thing is is they think that they make up for it obviously these are hidden mechanics you don’t know until now and so how they’ve been getting by with justifying this is oh well we’ve been doing these events and releasing the new minis for free yet in order to get any of these minis to a reasonable or even useful state for later on in the game you have to do all the missions and challenges around said mini and oh boy would be great to do that if only the game wasn’t literally mathematically stacked against me and the unit rates are just higher it can have more units than I can apparently their units can use two talents at a time because every single time in this instance forming the gnomer gone dungeon every time the Bear shows up not only do I get taunted then stunned but also if there’s any other beasts nearby I immediately lose my units cuz it’s almost like they’re doing double damage crazy I’m probably not going to be updating this post again anytime soon I’m going to get with my friends get in a discord and start compiling all the evidence I’ll leave my European friends to bring this to the appropriate people and for anybody who is European and sees this I hate to say it but probably say goodbye to the game honestly if this game gets taken down and in Europe the game probably won’t survive much longer I mean it’s already not doing good I mean and yeah they get good money from China but who knows how China is going to react to this another shining example of Activision now Microsoft blizzards greed
Paranoia high 100.
You don’t get weaker opponents if you buy something in the game with real money.
You just get what you pay for. These are Exp, in-game gold, stars, energy, etc.
There is no P2W in this game, you can’t make the minis stronger by it. The minis are exactly the same as the minis of an F2P player on the same level.
For example, if player A has to be faster to max lvl with real money, for example, Gargoyle is exactly as strong as the Gargoyle of player B is the F2P player and has his Gargoyle on Max lvl.
You can’t buy a bonus to be stronger than other players. The maps can defeat an f2p player just like a player who buys something. There are no advantages at all, except that you have your minis and leaders faster on max lvl.
Congrats on the longest post I’ve ever seen on this forum. 
You are correct though. Blizzard has turned into a predatory company. Instead of putting their time into creating fun games, like they used to, they spend time researching and trying to figure out how to trigger players into spending money. The irony is this is at the expense of those that would already spend money if the game was fun.
This game has odds things going on that are either intended or due to amateur developers and incompetent product teams. The bugs are crazy but probably a symptom of complicated predatory logic behind the scenes. It’s also why blizzard doesn’t communicate much about this game or respond to these forums.
With that said. Spending money on this game does in fact allow you to progress, but only slightly and only for a very short duration. They also gated those that want to pay to win. This is why their revenue is so low compared to games in this genre. Somehow they took multi billion dollar IP and created a polished turd of a mobile game that doesn’t even scam people well.
I agree with your premise. The game is definitely coded to benefit people who participate in p2w, that said, deep breath. Buy the Azeroth’s blessing and use some punctuation. We will get through this together; it’s $5/mo. It’ll be ok.