Best of 2021 Contest Feedback

The Best of 2021 event did not have many positives. The scoring was confusing starting with the portion from the Faction Boss. It seems if you unintentionally ended up in a global boss battle, you received less points than one with 100% of your faction members on the first time rewards. I'm not even sure how that's possible. Then the blitzes weren't paying the proper rewards. The talent up was limited to certain related categories where most of the pool was likely already leveled high. The best part of the event was the tours and the teamwork within the faction to try to win the boss battles. Both of these could've been accomplished without an event tied to it and just provided better rewards for completion.

Faction Boss

• Entertaining if you have the card that suits what’s required. Absolutely bummer if you don’t. Good luck trying to break 100+ blue gem shield without the likes of Morrison, Shelton or Gobbledy Gooker.
• Gameplay was extremely sluggish at at times costed the players’ opportunities to win.

Contests

• Unfortunately rewards are not very rewarding for the effort. Horribly scaled. I personally cleared all the tours and progressed moderately well on Faction Boss fights (8-9-8-8) but for 3sg tokens? c’mon.
• Talent Up event part is very restricted. There are not a lot of superstars in each category for example Ring Royalty. Sheamus and Macho are very rare leaving only small gap on Nakamura and Booker.

Blitz

• Very restrictive. Rewards are decent.

Suggestions

1) Closed Lobby option : invite only. Would be much easier for a group of players that wanna try for the mode together.

The best thing about this event was that there was Faction Boss to play this weekend instead.

Honestly, this was awful.

• The options for Talent Up were too restrictive. While I had a lot of the characters, I was effectively punished for having built them up previously and left with no options for doing 15k of talent up in each category.
• The rewards for a huge amount of talent up were really poor. Maxing out all of those scoring methods would've cost me a huge amount of resources, and I would've received a fraction of those resources in return. The RNG bags were not an incentive to chase as they contained many free or easily attainable characters. Even with the better bags, it's highly unlikely to be within 100 shards of a particular character and to hit that specific character, so chasing these bags was definitely not worth spending for.
• Blitz was a mess. No rewards were given out and the premium blitz had requirements that many players couldn't fill.
• Faction Boss could have contributed much more to the solo event. The points for maxing were really low. The faction-mate scoring also didn't work correctly for some players, so they couldn't even earn all those contest points.
• Loot was expensive and the pulls were awful. There wasn't even any value in doing the 1st time loot pulls this time around.

The good?

• Premium blitz was quick and easy, so 12m coins for this was nice.
• Tours were again good. It was nice to pick up 4x 5SE tokens pretty easily.

We appreciate your hardworking with this game and trying to bring new items. But solo event was out of range and new mode was very hard. Thank you so much. We are waiting for showdown tournament

I didn’t like this event, the faction boss wasn’t working half the time, I missed out on maxing or coming close to maxing the event and felt like this one just wasn’t thought out well. Now for the 4 faction boss battles I got to play it was fun and interesting but in the future let’s try and make this a little more better

The Boss Battle was a mess. Freezes, locking up lobbies, showing people in battles but not allowing them in, etc. I also didn’t get my talent up points for zombies I leveled up. One of the worst functioning events in some time.

The Boss Battle itself definitely needs adjustments, as well, beyond the glitching. The way the shield works is unclear. Despite generating tons of blue gems, it didn’t seem to crack the shield correctly. Additionally, there were issues using Boss Breakers, as some were not working at all.

I literally tried it, was disappointed and checked out for the weekend. The concept of faction boss was fine. The execution was horrendous. My main disappointment were the mechanics when the shield was up. Why put in place a filter for picking superstars that make or destroy blue gems. Then when blue gems are made or destroyed they don't even count towards the shield. The ONLY blue gems I could get to count towards the shield were the ones broken naturally. So at that point it made strategy with picking certain superstars pointless. I'm not sure if only I had this problem or only some people had this problem. However to me it made things pointless.

I do think that this new game mode has potential once every piece is added to it (mainly adding coins so we can build moves). It also seemed like more explanation needed to be there before the boss mode started because it seemed like we were still learning stuff on the fly like how to get rid of the shield as well as how to score points for the contest. I am not sure what we can do at this point with the mode though, but I can say that I was done playing that mode Friday night about two hours into the contest because I had scored all the points I could. I think there could be some stuff done to make the play last longer like some kind of rewards or point system for maxing out an event for multiple rounds played. A grinding philosophy. If we are talking the event as a whole, then this pay to max is getting a bit out of hand. I think I read that if you did everything else, it would still take 290 some pulls to max. That is not so cool just before Christmas. You should be able to get some of the good stuff just grinding things out. Gets very deflated if you see all this awesome stuff but then can only make it to 10/ 20 because the pocketbook does not allow. Still enjoy the game though, but think scopley can do better with all the spend.

Positive was the faction boss beta was actually pretty fun has a lot of potential with some tweaking. Can we please have a filter on our roster so we can see who is focused, chaotic etc going forward so we know who to work on.

blitz was fine for me 2 and 4 matches should be the max for a blitz because it’s so boring

tours were fine too and not too restrictive.

talent up had a lot of points for different categories which was decent

bad part now- you could barely make a dent in any useful milestone without massive spend. I got to the 5 mil milestone and just gave up because it was pointless for me to play anymore despite doing all my blitz, tours and getting as far as I could in faction boss

Honestly, the event was complete trash. It's becoming more and more obvious that every event will be spend, spend, spend. There wasn't close to enough points before spending. You need to please the free to play and the light spenders to make them feel like they matter too. Then they might spend more if they feel relevant

Only about 25 of the biggest spending whales will reach the final milestone with a large portion of the player base that invested many hours and possibly some "Modest" spend of <$500 will barely reach the halfway mark. The rewards in the milestones were rough, shard bags of common cards. Loot odds were so low as is par for the course. I get trying to make things "exclusive" but looking at the realistic math someone is going to have to do 100 pulls to get ONE item from the featured and that range in the featured category is rough. When people are new to the game they get excited and think Maybe I can get one of the good guys, only to realize after spending thousands on pulls and barely getting anything they want they hit a spend wall and just say no.

Faction Boss - excitement was built up, but execution and rewards were not up to any standard, even the Scopely standard.

Constructive criticism:

1. the concept. The concept itself was intriguing and still I think it has some merit. There is still life in the game mode if the bugs are fixed
2. lobby time. Took too long at times to get 4 people organised to get a match and if people log into the lobby and then forget to leave it it left lobbies with 1 person leading that wasn’t active leading to unusable lobbies.
3. event rewards. Really not worth playing it this time round as the rewards were poor, and at times not paying out. Really made it a miss event which is a shame as it could have made a real splash with the new game mode
4. boss breakers are pretty cool but needs tweaking to help with strategies. Maybe limiting each lobby to 1 character of each style class/boss breaker abilities

I think the mode has a future but really needs taking back to the draft board to make it run smoother and slicker for those wanting to get matches in quickly

Seemed like a nice way to integrate the first run of Faction Boss into the weekend event. Faction Boss in particular seems to have a lot of potential especially if it gives us alternative weekend event structures.

Loved the tours giving us very nice rewards for having made progress on the previous events from the year.

Main downside to the event is so many points being tied up into talent up after having the normal MLC talent up earlier in the week. Might have been a good opportunity for those who didn't need to spend much TP earlier, but I had already maxed the TP event and didn't feel like it was a good return on resources to do talent up here.

Shard bags as the unique rewards in the milestones for non-spenders was also not very exciting. Not going to tempt me to spend money/resources when the reward is random shards. Maybe a prize wall for shards would have been better.

Unfortunately I have no positives as this event was bad.

1. Faction boss did not work properly all weekend. Timer would go and you couldn't swipe, lose signal even if you had it and a ton of other issues. I was not able to achieve all the points due to these issues. The higher up bosses need leveled down and maybe turn the lobby into 2 or 3 players instead of 4. Lower level players will never be able to move up because us higher level players will just kick them from the lobby.

2. The reward achievements were way to high to reach. When you figure out only the top 3-5 players in the world have a chance to pick a character with rewards it's a little ridiculous. I have no issue with paywalls but this was way overboard.

3. Hopefully this does not mean you guys are doing away with showdown events. If you are having less showdown events you need to move the per day coin cap higher up.

4. I wish you would give better advance knowledge of events to plan our game strategy out better.

The worst thing you put out there. The Faction Boss match is exceedingly difficult. With the amount of time each move takes to go through the graphics, there's not enough time to get a sufficient attack. When the shield comes up, forget about it. I'd rather play Invasion than this.