State of the Game

I'm with Sissa 100%. I've been playing this game for a long time. It used to be fun. The only reason I still play is the people I've met and the friendships I've gained along the way. Something needs to be done, and be done soon, or many more will quit playing.

Also PLEASE give us something to spend our silver and gold gear hangars on. And another inventory clear out.

I will add/echo, that the money grab plus the time suck is insane. In order to be competitive, not only must you spend time, but money. That is insane to me. Ask for one or the other within reason not both to a level that says this gane is now my life. For Fued doing a reset at 3 am makes me stay up to an ungodly hour to try and max an event only to find without the special characters or loot lottery I don't come close. I have become disenchanted to say the least, and that (plus the undisclosed odds lottery loot pulls) have made me stop soending beyond the minimum to keep my faction place. Now that I was demoted because I didn't have special characters, I am on the verge of just showing up and saying whatever. Get your shit together, innovate and grow, don't fleece and plunder both time and money.

+1 what sissa said

I now only play whilst multi tasking on the computer, the game barely holds my attention for longer than half an hour otherwise.

The game is just a formulaic cash grab with no creativity which preys on addiction and sunk cost fallacy. I cancelled all my subscriptions and will likely quit soon if nothing changes.

I agree with Sissa for sure.

Instead of releasing new characters every week (which we've been told is usually weeks of planning), it would go a long way to work on the connection errors/glitches that occur when someone has a reliable internet source but can't participate because of red rings. This has been an issue for quite some time for many players in the community.

Additionally, although not specific to this event, it does seem to be the way the game is progressing, where the weekend faction events don't necessarily correlate to either 1) the need for factions to work together, or 2) the event that the weekend is supposed to be. (example: This weekend was a feud weekend, but the faction event does not take into consideration someone's desire/ability to grind and feud). As a result, there isn't much incentive from players to actually participate in the feud. Similarly, Showdown events are all about collecting shards of the weekend character, not necessarily participating in the Showdown event (yes, I know participating in the SD event gives points towards the solo event that will give you shard bags. But you can just as easily spend $$ on loot without doing a single showdown match).

Adding onto what Sissa posted above, I think it would go a long way to have a more collaborative gameplay that encourages working together with the other members of the faction, and not simply just for getting rewards. Not to bring up a game style that has been obsolesced for a while, but Invasions brought this type of team work/strategy to the table. To some extent, so did the 4x4 type of faction feud matches, although that would likely cause more connection errors than already exist.

After reading the blog regarding the new ‘grand tournament’ I have already relegated myself to the fact I’ll never get the chance to participate beyond the stipulation tour. With only the top 16 qualifying that instantly turns off 99% of the playerbase. The 16 players who can dedicate 5 hours to leaderboard on a stipulation tour will qualify. This doesn’t mean the best players qualify. It basically means who ever can repeatedly do the same combo of moves over and over will win. Whilst the rewards do look fantastic I definitely won’t be wasting my time chasing a lost cause. In regards to @Sissa’s post i totally agree with everything. The game is copy and paste week after week. We don’t need a new character each week where we get 2/3 of the shards and that’s it for another year. With straps and gears being such an important part of the game having them as more of a focal point would freshen things up as event rewards.

I would like to highlight some points that need to be addressed:

1) Releasing 6 New Superstars a month is a joke (not everyone is willing to spend $10k a month on a game)

2) The game has become so pay to play now, how is it meant to be enjoyable for any new players?

3) The addition of the new Road Tours were welcomed, but they’ve been completed and could do with a reset or new tours to be added.

4) The Chase Superstar is welcomed at 5SB and 3000 Shards to recruit, but the shards should be more readily available and not have a price tag attached to them. Also on this point, it’s been noticed that by completing the Month Long Solo you will receive the Chase at 3SG, this should be 4SB at least.

5) The blitz at the beginning of the month is a joke, requiring the Free Superstar at 4SB to complete Hell Blitz is understandable, but forcing people to purchase the 3 Star Fuse Pack to take part in the Hard Blitz is unacceptable to be fair.

6) Requiring a New Superstar each week to compete needs to be either changed/removed as a requirement, or the odds of being able to recruit or pull said Superstar drastically needs to be improved (even if only at 1SB).

7) While Showdown Tournaments did for a while took 2 steps forward, they then took a u-turn and took 10 steps backwards. We as the user base should not be forced to spend an obscene amount of money to be able to compete, it takes the fun out of it.

8) Getting onto Feuds! What is the use of forcing people to use the Fuse Steps? They spoil the whole dynamic of the game. Whales just spend money to get obscene feud scores and make it impossible for people in other factions to compete! The whole point of this aspect of the game is to make sure people are on an even playing field and not make it easier for pay to play whales.

I think that should cover all the areas that there are serious issues for now.

I love the feedback given here, I agree with a lot of this. The game does get quite monotonous. It is a monthly grind, and very much a continued sort of routine that gets a bit painstaking at times.

A few things I'd like to see change include the hangers for the gear, would be nice to be able to spend them on any gear I want, I already know it's going to be far too restrictive when the shop does come up, for example the medal shop should certainly have all the medals in the game available.

I think the rewards for the events and stages are about 2-3x less than what they should be, a global reward increase - i.e. coin and to rewards for stages, token and shard rewards from bags or milestones, current pull rates for characters, and items from purchase, all about 2-3x higher than they are currently.

I would also like to see the events more evenly weighted across the milestones, I understand that there should be a slightly higher reward for the upper tiers like the 3s chase card in the top milestone, but if the event gives out a total of 150 shards for example, I think that after finishing 10 of the 15 milestones, you should have 100 shards.

I am also on the side of far too many new characters too frequently, no incentive to use the ones we currently have or try to find other innovative ways to use them, I do think this can be helped by reworking the current modes like mentioned above, updating characters like was done with rocky miavia for example.

A lot of the time it feels like very little care is put into the maintenance of the game and it's getting very cut and paste. What I mean is the ongoing issues there seems to be at the beginning of an event - like how the loot this week had zombies unleashed prize wall coins as rewards for pulls, how the talent up always seems to have problems, this week how the newest daily events in the revenge tour are showing up in the middle of the event rather than the bottom, gauntlet blitz errors for example. It feels like almost daily there's a new thing, and I hate to see it. I see similar things in other games I have played and given up in the past, and it worries me.

Don't get me wrong, I still like this game, but I am definitely getting those early warning signs that it's becoming less fun for me. There are a lot of other things I want to mention, but I don't want to overwhelm and dump it all out right now. Maybe tomorrow lol.

Thank you for the work you are doing and taking the time to listen to these concerns, obviously I am very little expectation for what might end up changing, but I am very much looking forward to seeing what comes of this.

So 1st of all. I agree with everything said. I have been bitten with a bad customer service issue at least 3 separate times. If it happened one more time. I am indeed done with this game for sure. Has cost me rewards, a character, and pulls. All solutions were handed but only 1 was before an event ended and they had 4 days to handle it.

This game has been fun for a long time. Now, it seems like every week a new person is released. Only to be outdone by next weeks released person to come. The last few months were fairly tough to cruise thru but if you did all the coin/evos, tp events, showdown, fued, blitz. You got the mlc done. This new month with everything raised up about 30% has been a nightmare. We aren't getting enough resources to replenish what we are using.

Now it seems that every time we log in there's a new bug. It's become more of a chore to just log in so we can keep our streak going. No new things need to be be added to the game. Just some things need to be revamped indeed. Bring on Invasions again. They were team based and strategic planning but were something different. Also your tag team elimination matches are fun. Why not do more of those. How about maybe elimination of perks or a more permanent perk system?

Just things to think about.

Definitely agree with the OP.

*The game definitely feels more like chore than fun. (More so if you unable/unwilling to spend)

*Too many character releases. (please slow it down).

*It is very discouraging when you put in the necessary work and your progress gets blocked by a paywall.

*The grind has always felt it outweighs the reward.

While I think the game has improved hugely, especially for newer or casual players, I absolutely understand and agree with those who say the game has a staleness right now.

For me, this is largely down to the fact that there is so little to actually play/compete for at the top level of the game (ie those who have invested the most time and money into the game). Unless you are willing to buy warscore steps and play for 20+ hours for the top 3 spots in feud, there’s nothing to actually earn in the game.

The alternative is just to play for a couple of hours every weekend and hope to get lucky on a bag for a new character. This is anything but engaging content.

A lot of the staleness in the game could easily be solved by drastically expanding rewards for events. This doesn’t mean giving out brand new cards to 1,000 players, but so much content (eg grand tournament with 16 qualifiers) is alienating so much of the player base. Expand leaderboards and give more ‘stretch’ grind goals for players to compete and earn.