Upon first starting up the game, I was notified of a special limited time offer: a full set of epic armor, a legendary weapon, 5 revive potions, and 40 silver offerings for 5000 gems. You don’t have to pay for any of this stuff, but if you don’t, you’ll find yourself sorting through a lot of really mediocre loot, being asked to play the same levels over and over again to get good enough to fight the bosses, and generally having no resources and not very much fun. An offering to the Silver God runs about 63 cents and an offering to the God of Gold runs about $3.13. You get loot from doing quests, but you can also generate some high-level loot by buying offerings to the gods, which look a lot like slot machine tokens, conveniently enough. Assuming you buy the gems at the most cost-efficient rate ($20 bundles at about 3 cents a gem), healing potions cost about 31 cents per potion, energy potions cost about 38 cents per potion, and revive potions cost about $2.19 per potion. However, the gem-to-dollar conversion rate of Eternity Warriors 3 is so ridiculous that it probably cancels out the psychological misdirection. This is the same dual-currency system that allowed FarmVille developers Zynga to open up their own line of credit cards, and it exists solely to make it so that the amount of money that you’re actually spending on in-game purchases is as abstract as possible. Unless, of course, you buy the gems at 3-5 cents apiece. It would be almost impossible to accumulate the resources to fight through the game’s single player campaign at that rate, let alone compete in PvP matches.
Even though all your loot is sold for coins, things as basic as healing potions still have to be bought with the gems, which is strange, because you can only accumulate gems very, very slowly, with the first chapter of the game giving you only enough gems to buy one healing potion. Any actual commodities you might want, on the other hand, you have to pay for with purple gems. Coins are plentiful, but don’t really buy you much, mostly skill updates. You’ll notice pretty quickly upon entering the first hub city of the free-to-play action RPG Eternity Warriors 3 that the land of Udar has a counterproductive economy.
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