11 years of harassment, cheating, dodging accountability by the Mods, and a broken reporting system
Forge of Empires promotes itself as a “safe space,” yet the game is plagued with harassment, abuse, and discrimination, made worse by a broken reporting system that makes real moderation impossible. On top of that, the game is filled with cheaters and bot users, and InnoGames takes no real action — because those same players spend money, and profit clearly matters more than fairness or player safety.
You can only report one message per player within 24 hours. Once that’s done, no one else can report that same player again. If moderators dismiss that first report as harmless, every other abusive or discriminatory message that follows becomes unreportable. This has allowed harassment to go unchecked for years.
I’ve played Forge of Empires for 11 years, leading one of the most significant guilds in the game’s history, and this problem has existed the entire time. Players try to raise it through tickets, but support just replies with “click the message and hit report,” ignoring that the system literally prevents it.
Meanwhile, cheaters are protected because they pay. Honest players are punished for small things while exploiters and abusers thrive. Anyone who tries to speak up about the cheating issue gets banned, their tickets are dodged, and staff outright lie about having an “automatic detection system” that supposedly flags cheaters — which clearly doesn’t exist or doesn’t work. I’ve demonstrated this repeatedly on my YouTube channel with real in-game evidence.
After over a decade of leadership and community contribution, I can confidently say this: Forge of Empires is neither a safe nor fair environment. I would never recommend it to children or anyone vulnerable until InnoGames fixes its reporting system, stops protecting paying offenders, and finally enforces its own rules.
29 ottobre 2025
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