Bayley "The Soul Model" Showdown (+ Giveaway)

Agree with everyone above. The blog said you made changes to make it more fair, but in past Showdown events I always got to the top level before I hit a wall of unbeatable opponents. This time I can't even break the 3rd.

This sd must be the biggest pile of crap you ever made.

The tours are the only good thing about the event.

I don't even care about you're increase of notoriety, due promoters, i get it.

But that 5ss wall at 400 notoriety is unforgivable.

Normaly i could get the sd coins maxed. Now it is near impossible to get passed 400 notoriety. There is a big difference between a challenge or suicide.

Also i don't know who decided to make the cpu cascade kings but seems every opponent is fucking overpowered.

So i am going to enjoy my weekend for a change instead of playing.

and to end in the words of dx.

**edited for content by dkmangler**

Y’all need to fix all these bugs I collected my showdown coins just to find out that there was no contest so they didn’t count to the solo or faction!!!!!! Hope this doesn’t take til next year to resolve!!!!!

I would rate this event as a 3/10. And that's being stupidly generous. Using all of the bonus superstars except for Bayley only got me to milestone 9, and that was with buying 10 loot coins cause I'm an idiot. The only way to max is to spend a ridiculous amount of money. And then you'll bring out an event next week that requires spending the same amount.

I went non-stop for over 5 hours and got just over 900 notoriety. Changing it to a 1000 cutoff point was misguided and an obvious "F the players" move. And after all of that, I got 413 Bayley shards. Slightly over a quarter of the way to recruiting her. I'm so happy I gave up my Sunday afternoon for this event... Of course, after this event her shards will be drip-fed to us, so I look forward to unlocking her in 3 years time.

I've played this game for over 4 years, and spent a decent amount of money on it in that time. You guys are going backwards. Stop focusing on the whales and realize that if prices and odds were better, more people would spend. I'm not paying $44 for a legendary PH strap that MIGHT be for the era I need. I'm not spending $90 on a pitiful number of Bayley shards and some resources.

Since this is a give-away post, IGN is Phenom Black. Not that I expect to get anything from this.

So after considering the above comments and having slept on my anger and disappointment last night I can honestly say that a terrible decision has probably just put the final nail in a quite a few players coffins with this constant cash grab . All aspects of the game from dailies to feud, sd to blitz are asking for more and more time effort and actual cash. I agree that certain events are cash based and ppl can choose whether or not to compete...but when these are no integrated within month long contests it's favouring the whales. Again. I have a 1.6million roster, 4 years of playing, and can't compete with most, which is a bit confusing and frustrating. Opponent scaling is off the chart, how when running a 17k talent team at 200 notoriety is being paired with a 35k team at 700??? Alot of players are obviously looking back at last month and are happy with the chase etc then you just suck it all back out. Disappointment everywhere.

While I understand the promoters are ways to make us level a whole new character that we wont use accept only as a promoter. Which equals more people buying resources to try to level. Going from 699 to 1000 is just to much. You really screw the mid to lower top tier players out of making the bonus. It needs to be changed. I think this change just hurts people abruptly. Trying to grind through even with some promoters was just awful.

Really disappointed with this event. Showdown was about the only thing going well over the past couple contests and that has been nullified with the changes implemented here.

Changing the notoriety level to max and not adjusting the coins received at max level doesn’t make sense. Plenty of faction mates hit the Lana/chyna wall around 500 and never reached 1000.

Also, turning this into a pure spend event to max is shameful. Hiding 1.5 mil behind a paywall is lame. I understand the meaning is to make money. But for me it has the opposite effect. If the final two milestones were somewhat attainable without the featured character I’m sure more people would be motivated to spend to reach the next milestone.

The tours were simple and utilized somewhat common characters, probably the only shining light on an otherwise bleak contest.

For the life of me why do this game constantly go backwards lol scopely treat us like they are actually giving us real money plus the fraction that always winning getting all the brakes just realize we are not getting no real money

I find it amusing, that scopely insists we provide constructive feedback, but seems to have a long history with ignoring actual player's requests.

I would rate this event at a solid 2 out of 10. Tours were doable, and to have bonus characters that were not ultra-rare was nice. The actual showdown event was the same hot garbage, with the increased notoriety score totally unreachable as usual. The wall of 5star silver Lana/Socko started around 400 and never let up. I'm legitimately curious of the percentage of players who have these characters cause that's all you see for hours. I grinded for hours, got to above 700 and gave up there. Too much time, too much Hp wasted getting there, and the rewards were not worth pushing further. I'm at milestone 9/16 and i am definitely not gonna spend here to get further. I'm not knocking scopely for monetizing the game, but unless they provide compelling reasons, that wallet will stay shut. I've got 400 shards of Bailey, and am looking forward to unlocking her in 2 or 3 years.

I like the "mutants" concept, and hope the game includes more factions like this. We have zombies, statues, MOTU already. I suggest Scopely adds Robot, Ninja, Pirate, My little Pony, and Medieval versions of WWE characters.

This sd was bad the increase to 1000 pts is just not doable and way too time consuming. Uses too much hp for very little gain. I used to like sd events but after this one if it stays this way then i may not be playing going forward. The matchups are not at all fair much less reasonable.

Horrible event overall. More work for much less reward considering all of the good rewards are in the final 2 milestones which very few players will reach. Zero incentive to spend or play beyond gaining the available showdown coins. Tours were fine but that’s the only positive. Weekends like this decrease the community morale and will most likely lead players to find alternative forms of entertainment

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I agree with what everyone said.

My personal experience during the SD event is it could have been much better. It felt like it was fixed when it did not need to be. Going to 1000 notoriety and on top of that 1000 SD points per win instead of usual 1500 SD points felt like punishment to the last game mode most people could enjoy over a event weekend. Heard it was 100 SD points instead of 1000 at 1000 notoriety, again I do not believe that was a mistake and was intended until a lot of people yelled shenanigans like the kids from South Park.

If there’s one positive in this weekend event, it would be the tours and the easy CSS needed to get the bonus rewards. I totally hate Goldberg, and those who know why do, it was good that I could have done his bonus at 3sb. The possible worst free monthly character ever to be released with Pete Dunne was doable at 3ss in the other normal tour.

Overall, this SD event needs MAJOR improvement especially with the faction milestone rewards. We used to have bags of the new character available, but this time not one. Every time it seem Scopely does good with the MLCs, they go backward a few steps and it’s frustrating for a player to see that when Scopely asks for suggestions to improve.

I keep asking myself why you guys keep doing things to make the community hate the game and the company. Honestly the only event that people enjoyed a little was Showdown and you somehow decided it was better to change it and create another problem when there are tons out there, like the copy/paste events/tours/offers/etc...(literally every event is a copy of a previous one, except you change stuff for the new month/week) which you'd think is an area to improve rather the one thing "working". Changing notoriety leagues was probably the worst idea you guys could have. It got worse when rewards didn't scaled. So people would need to play a lot more for the same stuff we were used to see. And it gets worse when you're forced to face the same teams over and over and over again. Extra effort required + rewards not scaling + repetitive opponents = a really boring event and a game you don't want to play. Really, it's awful when you're forced to play the same teams 50x at least. And this is not a post where you read "oh we should get rewards easily". No, this is a post to make you understand where the game needs to improve and where you don't need to touch, like the previous Showdown model.

Now that we attacked the main Showdown tournament, the Bayley event was just another copy from previous Showdown events. The only innovation was a failed attempt to make Showdown tournament tedious, boring and longer without scaling rewards. Requirements were fair, finally something that wasn't M/M, rewards were bad considering all the torture we had to go through and tours were a positive aspect.

Tl;DR - A weekend to forget. Or maybe not forget and used it for future reference on things you should not do.