Blah. Let me rephrase that.
When the 8.0.0 update was released, things started to go downhill from there. From bugs to the lag, it just started to get hectic playing. Then they added the serverly overpowered dragon ray (Stay with me lol. I haven't played this game in forever) and the freezee ray rifle. AND those bleeping magic bows and wands that would one shot non armored people. And also, weapons started to get pricey and payouts at the end of the game wasn't as big.
Then came the "glorious" 9.0.0 that EVERYONE loved!!! *Cough cough* Sarcasm *Cough cough* when most people found out how hard it was to get gems, they started to hate it. And with the addition of weapons/upgrades costing a crazy amount of gems or coins now, well, players started to get Po'ed. That's when hackers started to blantantly start bypassing the IAPS and getting 999999999 gems. And to also top it off, those dang mech/gears. Ugh. That was so annoying to fight against. Atleast with the older update hackers (people who had cheated the currency) were easier to deal with. Cause mostly everyone had all the weapons back then.
I had over 10,000 gold coins before they started to add gems. Who knew that gold could be so cheap and worthless in this game now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯