Hitman's Spectacular Contest + Giveaway

MIKEYT85 · February 2022

I'm sure there is plenty of feedback on what the blog said versus what we got in game. I'm going to do my best not to add to that specific conversation because its been had in every comms channel about this game. I think its known how people feel about it. I also know the intention is to give us accurate information and I anticipate Scopely will strive to do better in the future.

The only thing I would add to that conversation is more communication from Scopely when there is an issue/misinformation/typo/unclear wording, and what the solution is prior to the end of an event and leaving people high and dry. Personally I decided Bret was not worth $60 to me. $60 to guarantee a character would be a tremendous value in most scenarios in this game. If I knew the free shards and the paid offers, I could have planned to spend resource and probably got myself in a position to get Bret for $20. I would have done that. So the lack of transparency did cost some profits. Granted my $20 isn't going to change the trajectory of Scopely's balance sheet. I am just giving you insight into a small to medium spender.

Solo Contest/Faction Contest/ Tours

Now the contest that we did get was a really great contest I would LOVE to see mirrored in the future. I and many players always say we want grind events to get superstars, and that is what we got. It was possible if you got all the freebies on the table to get HOF Bret. How good this contest was for players has been lost in all the drama at this point which is unfortunate.

Solo and faction contest were well paced. Talent up portions always great to have.

Tours the CSS were well chosen and I really liked how none of the shards were "paywalled" behind the rarer CSS in the Sunday Tour. Speaking of Sunday tours, I really wish at the very least we could see the tours in game or even better be able to do them all at any point over the weekend. I'm sure it was an error but one of the recent contests offered them all at launch or by Saturday and I really liked it. Would also allow comms/planning to be corrected and avoid this past weekends situation.

Flash Feuds

I didn't love the timing of the Feuds as a US East Coast Player. But it did give some views into how international players feel. Much respect to a lot of them since Feuds are often so US friendly. Also Rumble and Seemingly NFL Championship Sunday gave less windows to place feud.

Free Steps and kickout bonus was probably the best compromise we will see with Steps and Kickout Bonuses. Max 40% isn't insurmountable like the 80% is. I would prefer no steps but if this is the move going forward to try and move out some of the T1 Meta I can deal with that.

Line Bonuses and Restrictions I felt like there was enough flexibility and also quality line bonus benefits depending on the fills to make things interesting.

War score contest pacing felt good to me. Often the next milestone didn't seem too far away.

Prop Shop

I did not interact with this but thought it was a Nifty idea. In the future maybe having some of that currency in the milestones to give people a chance to interact would encourage more follow up spending.

haveanice189117 · February 2022

Event wasn't long enough, and the shards rewards were minimal at best.

tna457305 · February 2022

I really enjoyed the contest but could of done with a couple of extra days

XanDeR13 · February 2022

Feedback for Hitman Spectacular HOF event

Negatives

Blog shard error was atrocious and shouldn't have happened. Think everyone has pretty much said there piece and I wouldn't be adding anything different. All in all, the handling of the blog error could have been done a whole lot better rather than a sudden change with an asterisk as it made no sense whatsoever.
Didn't like the last day tour superstar requirements as they were all rare and paywalled requirements.
One of the biggest problem I find with your decision is the timing of everything and anything which has such a huge impact on our player's decision and choices. It almost makes me think that you take advantage of the FOMO situation which leads players to make abrupt decisions but rather if they waited you would then release something cheaper or better the next day. It's very likely this is a great marketing strategy to get more $$$ out of players but long term you're going to lose the trust of your players but I guess Scopely only knows what's more important to them.
I dont know if introducing the free steps with the 10% warscore was meant to balance out the points given out for first superstar win. Personally, I would prefer you remove the steps and put back the 100k first superstar win instead. The community in general aren't a fan of steps so why keep shoving that at us when it's evident not many are interested with them.

Positives

This would have been a perfect event had it been executed like the Riddle event but it was pretty evident you wanted to grab as much $$$ as you can without releasing a new card, considering Bret without gears isn't even an all that great card.
I am glad the call was made to offer Bret Shards at relatively reasonable price even though I've forked a bit already and felt this was more expensive than the Riddle event yet the difference was Riddle is a much better card than Bret. $20 to get 100 Shards guaranteed was enough reason for me to bite. I am just glad I didn't make the desperate call to spend more than needed.
For my region, I think the Flash Fued timings worked well for me even though I didn't bother to fued the first 2 but decided to only do the last one as first 2 felt pretty restrictive and would have been a boring grind.

Overall

This was on the verge to have been one of the worst event which made the overall HOF MLC event so bad with the heavy paywall.
In the end I think the right call was made to allow us to still manage to get Bret but still didn't feel right for us as players to fork out additional money when you clearly made a big blunder.
I honestly didn't enjoy the HOF MLC event at all so I hope that ends there and we can begin next month with better events (although I don't have high hopes on that).

Benb1 · February 2022

The event was ok. The blog was horrible. Need to get the person that writes the blog some instructions on reading and writing. The resolution to the blog mess up was also garbage. 50 shards. What a joke.

Dexterman08 · February 2022

Buen Tour, pero deberia ser un poco menos complicado el conseguir fragmentos para ganar a la Superestrella.

Smashman40 · February 2022

https://community.wwechampions.com/discussion/6931/hitmans-spectacular-contest-giveaway

He's great for easy access. It's all about the multiply gems

Smashman40 · February 2022

Steel+Matt Hardy = Easy access

rig595245 · February 2022

Loved the event but feel like their needs to be more opportunity to be able to obtain shards without dipping into your pocket or bring down the shards required to make it obtainable for the grinders.

All in all....Nice to see the Hitman back