Bayley "The Soul Model" Showdown (+ Giveaway)

Everything is broken, game freeze non stop, keeps saying I have no videos 2 watch when I not hitting any buttons. Says there is no connection and kicked u out of match. Should I keep going?

Showdown has become an unbearable waste of my time.

Having to get to 1000 is one thing, having to do it when the matches seem so rigged against you is another thing entirely.

The same superstar at the same level with the same moves, one kicks out of the finisher first go, the other can't kick out at all. Of course both will be fully strapped, but any variation in medals should not account for this.

If this is how showdown is going to continue, I'll be hitting my faction requirements and calling it a day. Playing games is suppised to be fun, and yes, we all like a challenge, but once again you have over compensated on the difficulty level.

It's almost as if the player base has done something to upset you, so you thought 'let's ruin everyone's weekend by turning the ai up so high everyone will struggle'.

It's an absolute joke, but I'm not laughing.

Congratulations, after the last monthly i was thinking you guys was start going into the right direction, you came with this ... removing daily tasks with amazing rewards for active players and daily blitz with decent rewards, then you added a tour for Cena which is not bad, but this new show down what a joke even with a good 5* wrestler i cant reach 600, what about 1k, was way more fun in the others SD, what a joke this is

Positives about this event

- Bayley Character looks really good

- Tours were fun

Negatives

-increasing notoriety to 1000 (there is no need as there is a huge portion of the community who struggle to even hit 700 let alone this

Man, remember the Wild Ones MLC? Wasn't that fun? I wish there was a feedback thread so I could detail how it was fun! But fun times are over now.

• Gonna open with a positive - Powerhouses have been sorely lacking for the women, so I'm happy Bayley is one. Model looks great, animations are great, I cannot give enough credit to the teams behind them.
• All the required superstars for both the tour and showdown are relatively easy to get, compared to other events. First time I was able to fully sweep the showdown bonus sans the new character.
• Tours are fine. I guess. Did liked how they were mixed matched, so you could sandbag one of the characters if they weren't fully leveled.

Alright, that's the end of the good things. Strap in.

• Elephant in the room first - Showdown changes. Matchmaking adjustments in 'earlier showdown leagues', and the real big one, top league is shifted up 700 points. I saw next to no difference in showdown matchmaking starting from 200 - I pretty much got thrown 4SG/5SB teams immediately, and of course they all switched to totally maxed out 5SS teams the moment I hit 400. So either those changes are really low down (like, 0-200 range), this isn't working correctly, or the blog was flat-out lying. I'm going to give you all the benefit of the doubt and say it isn't the last one.
• Separate bullet point for the notoriety change - why. Multitudes of feedback about how the top league is already impossible for most and still really irritating to reach for those who can handle it, and the response is to double down on it. At least it's making the intentions clear that it's only meant for the top 0.5% or so and that if you aren't specifically tailoring an entire portion of your roster (at least 4 people due to M/M, F/M, M/F, F/F) just for showdown, don't bother. I wouldn't even call it an awful change, just nonsensical.
• This loot. Oh my god, this loot. Mostly common 2-star posters in the year of our lord 2021. I've seen people pull on it, and it felt like watching footage from 2018/2019. The only good thing I can say is that at least you're getting posters and not just worthless quantities of shards. Like a 2/10 loot, absolutely heinous. And you want people to spend 300 pulls on this.
• Deals... What is there to say there? Goldberg is offered 4SB for like 25 bucks. Don't most people have him at that or higher after the community event? There aren't any loot coin deals after the really early ones, and I'm pretty sure the 20 dollar one was a pretty poor value compared to just buying 20 bucks worth of loot coins - which isn't worth much because the loot is awful.
• Oh, and even if you do everything perfectly you're still like 2-3 million short to clear the event. I guess there's the option for talent up with modern powerhouses, but that would be a resource dump that borders on self-sabotage. I really hope there are significant changes to the next showdown event, because there'll be a point where even the Icons shards won't be worth all this trouble.

i dont underatanfd why they changed the reputation that u need to max the 15000 showdown point. evern the 700 were hard to rech for a nomal player. what bothers me the most that scopely not even mentioned anywhere that they incresed the reoutation level. its like hty though nobod would notice it.

they down care about the players. they care how they can max their profit and get more money out of our pockets. the rewards for the milestones are a joke and every contest it gets worse.

This is a terrible showdown multiple glitches and crashes losing hundreds of healtpacks.

Then there is the notoriety increase, why fix showdown if it was not broken, fix all other bugs first.

The increase to 1000 notoriety is unnecessary and makes showdown events on the weekend unbearable. If you don't have a top superstar it's almost impossible to get up that high. This did nothing to help with the feeling that this game is starting to cater to only the top players.

I understand the fact that game modes need to be tweaked from time to time to ensure that there is a degree of difficulty for the average player and am even accepting that there should be a paywall for people to want to spend money to buy new characters and get rewards however the game is based on the majority of the players not the big spenders.

if the game was geared towards the average spender and it made sense for us to spend more with certain guaranteed progression coming from that spending then the average person may spend more. It’s a pretty solid business model, at least everywhere else in the world.

showdown changes may have been necessary however to increase the level of notoriety needed to max while also dropping the amount of coins rewarded for each match over the 1000 is insane. If you’re going to increase the notoriety levels then increase the coins.

over 1k notoriety gets 30k coins from matches instead of 15k. This gives the top 1 percent of players something to go for while the majority gets what they usually get or a chance at it anyway.

showdown coins awarded at reset should also be increased from the usual for 700 to 1000. 34k is usually the payout so let’s do 45k for that level and 30k for the 700 level. Again this provides some additional rewards for the top and doesn’t completely screw the average player.

when you do a spend event like the Bayley loot event you should simultaneously throw in a grind event like the 200 match showdown event from a few months ago. Again provides something for the average player to do and doesn’t always cater to the top 1 percent.

just a few thoughts based on this competion.

Increase the notoriety to 1000? It’s hard enough to get to 700 going up against Socko, zHHH and all the top tier when I’m and most people are barley got one 5sb not maxed! Plus you raise the notoriety but not going to up the sd points it’s a joke I think it is cause we barely reach over 700 and stay there till day 1 so that we get full sd weekly coins but now it's 1000+ which I personally don't like it from my point of view I think the preview sd events was much better cause it's difficult to score 1% for faction and so many people are gonna kick out only because of this new sd event ridiculous I hate this sd event

Change in showdown is not a good, all player near to set that pattern, and change totally change, old one is better then this, game loving parts are remove slowly slowly....

the new sd is awful.....it takes forever now, awful awful

4/10

6/10

This event reminded me of the mid week Naomi contest a few months back needed 2000 matches to complete.

Rewards look good, but if you can't reach them then it's like having poor rewards in the first place.

I echo the majority of negative feedback given. As a casual player moving the goalposts without increasing the incentives is a turn off to the game. I already take all day to reach 700 noteriety. To reach 1000 is disheartening. After completing a majority of css requirements I have only reached milestone 4 for solo rewards. I don't know who your marketing to or targeting with these contests, but speaking for myself as a casual, I'm losing interest in participating/playing or spending. I haven't even been tempted to spend a coin for first points after reading the requirements which totally turned my enthusiasm down significantly.

Edit: increasing the overall score by 2, tours I found were easy once I checked CSS and I got higher in solo, so the only downer was sd tourney.